Professor Thomas Mason and graduate student Tianren Yu have designed and lithographically created novel lock-and-key colloidal polymers. Their paper, entitled “Brownian lithographic polymers of steric lock-and-key colloidal linkages”, has been […]

Chemist and physicist Professor Thomas Mason is one of five scientists from around the nation selected as a 2021 Fellow of the Society of Rheology (SOR).   A professor of physical […]

Professors Kun Zhao (Tianjin U) and Tom Mason (UCLA) discover tetratic order in dense 2D systems of rotationally asymmetric hard kite particles. A former postdoctoral researcher in Professor Tom Mason’s […]

Professors Paula Diaconescu and Thomas Mason have been named 2019 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS is the world’s largest general-scientific society and publisher […]

Alumnus Dr Dimitri Bikos (PhD ’18) and Professor Thomas Mason have created a new technique that uses gel electrophoresis to collide bands of reacting species. Their paper, entitled “Band-collision Gel […]

PhD student Ha Seong Kim and Professor Thomas Mason have substantially refined diffusing wave microrheology of highly scattering concentrated dispersions. When illuminated with white light, many soft materials, such as […]

Professor Thomas Mason and alumnus Dr Po-Yuan Wang have created lithographically pre-assembled monolayers of mobile Brownian shape-designed colloidal tiles. Their Letter, entitled “A Brownian quasi-crystal of pre-assembled colloidal Penrose tiles”, […]

A paper by Professor Thomas Mason and PhD student Ha Seong Kim has been selected for the 2018 Rheologica Acta Publication Award. This paper, entitled “Entropic, electrostatic, and interfacial regimes […]