Publications / Media

•  "Making the Perfect Hard-boiled Egg" - NPR/WBEZ 91.5FM -- (April 21, 2011)

• "Adsorption Profiles and Solvation of Ions at Liquid- Liquid Interfaces and Membranes"
    W. Kung, M. Olvera de la Cruz and F. J. Solis, (submitted, 2011).

• "A Minimal Model of Nanoparticle Crystallization in Polar Solvents via Steric Effects"
    W. Kung, P. Gonzalez-Mozuelos, and M. Olvera de la Cruz, J. Chem Phys. 133, 074704 (2010).

• "Nanoparticles in Aqueous Media: Crystallization and Solvation Charge Asymmetry"
    W. Kung, P. Gonzalez-Mozuelos, and M. Olvera de la Cruz, Soft Matter 6, 331-341 (2010).

• "Thermodynamics of Ternary Electrolytes"
    W. Kung, F. Solis, and M. Olvera de la Cruz, J. Chem. Phys. 130, 044502 (2009).

• "Mode-Locking in Driven Disordered Media"
    W. Kung and M. C. Marchetti, J. Stat. Mech. 132, 945 (2008) [cond-mat/0801.4767].

• "Thermodynamics of Ion Solvation and Differential Absorption at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces and Membranes"
    W. Kung, F. Solis, and M. Olvera de la Cruz, (2007). [cond-mat/0710.0369].

• "Mediation of Long-Range Attraction Selectively between Negatively-Charged Colloidal Disks by Solvation"
    W. Kung and M. Olvera de la Cruz, , J. Chem. Phys. 127, 244907 (2007) [cond-mat/0708.3450].

• "Poisson-bracket Approach to the Dynamics of Bent-Core Molecules"
    W. Kung and M. C. Marchetti, , Phys. Rev. E 76 (2007) 011710. [cond-mat/0702662]

• "Charged Plate beyond Mean-Field: One-loop Corrections by Salt-density Fluctuation"
    W. Kung and A.C.W. Lau, (2006). [cond-mat/0603191]

• "Hydrodynamics of Polar Liquid Crystals"
    W. Kung, M. C. Marchetti and K. Saunders, Phys. Rev. E 73 (2006) 031708. [cond-mat/0510652]

• "The Foam Analogy: From Phases to Elasticity"
    W. Kung, P. Ziherl and R.D. Kamien, J. Col. Int. Sci. 275 (2004) 539. [cond-mat/0310686]

• "Topological Constraints at the Theta Point: Closed Loops at Two Loops"
    W. Kung and R.D. Kamien, Europhys. Lett. 64 (2003) 323. [cond-mat/0305026]

• "The Foam Analogy in Charged Colloidal Crystal"
    W. Kung, P. Ziherl and R.D. Kamien, Phys. Rev. E 65 (2002) 050401(R). [cond-mat/0111313]