Publications

• S. P. McBride and B. M. Law, “Influence of line tension on spherical colloidal particles at liquid-vapor surfaces”, to be submitted to Phys.Rev. Lett.
• B. Lohman, J. Powell, C. B. Aakeroy, A. Chakrabarti, K. J. Klabunde, B. M. Law, and C. M. Sorensen, “Solubility of Gold Nanoparticles as a Function of Ligand Shell and Alkane Solvent”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (accepted).
• H. S. Wi, S. Cingarapu, K. J. Klabunde, C. M. Sorensen and B. M. Law, “Observation of nanoparticle-enhanced Marangoni transport near a freezing out front”, J. Phys. Chem. C 116, 6052 (2012).
• G. Paneru, P. S. Thapa, S. P. McBride, D. Moore-Nichols, B. M. Law, and B. N. Flanders, “Forces at Individual Pseudopod-Filament Adhesive Contacts”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 093702 (2011).
• H. S. Wi, S. Cingarapu, K. J. Klabunde and B. M. Law, “Nanoparticle adsorption at liquid-vapor surfaces: influence of nanoparticle thermodynamics, wettability and line tension”, Langmuir 27, 9979 (2011).
• R. Seemann, M. Brinkmann, S. Herminghaus, K. Khare, B. M. Law, S. McBride, K. Kostourou, E. Gurevich, S. Bommer, C. Herrmann and D. Michler, “Wetting morphologies and their transitions in grooved substrate”, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 23, 184108 (2011).
• B. Kaur, S. P. McBride, A. Paul, and W. T. Ford, “Hydrolysis of p-nitrophenyl esters promoted by semifluorinated quaternary ammonium polymer latexes and films”, Langmuir 26, 15779 (2010).
• S. P. McBride and B. M. Law, “Improved in-situ spring constant calibration for colloidal probe atomic force microscopy”, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 81, 113703 (2010).
• B. M. Law, J.-H. J. Cho, J. Carpenter, D. Smith, “Adsorption and dipole surface orientational order at liquid surfaces”, Aust. J. Chem. 63, 430 (2010).
• S. P. McBride and B. M. Law, “Viscosity dependent liquid slip at molecularly smooth hydrophobic surfaces”, Phys. Rev. E 80, 060601(R) (2009).
• E. J. Stalcup, R. Seemann, S. Herminghaus and B. M. Law, “Dissipation mechanisms in ionic liquids”, J. Coll. Interf. Sci. 338, 523 (2009).
• B. M. Law, M. D Brown, L. Marchand, L. B. Lurio, W. A. Hamilton, I. Kuzmenko, T. Gog, S. Satija, E. Watkins and J. Majewski, “Adsorption at liquid interfaces: A comparison of multiple experimental techniques”, European Physical Journal 168, 127 (2009).
• K. Khare, M. Brinkmann, B. M. Law, S. Herminghaus and R. Seemann, “Switching wetting morphologies in triangular grooves”, European Physical Journal Special Topics 166, 151 (2009).
• Y. Takata, H. Matsubara, T. Matsuda, Y. Kikuchi, T. Takiue, B. Law, M. Aratono, “Study on line tension of air/hexadecane/aqueous surfactant system”, Colloid Polym. Sci. 286, 647 (2008).
• K. Khare, S. Herminghaus, J.-C. Baret, B. M. Law, M. Brinkmann, and R. Seemann, “Switching liquid morphologies on linear grooves”, Langmuir 23, 12997 (2007).
• K. Khare, M. Brinkmann, B. M. Law, E. L. Gurevich, S. Herminghaus and R. Seemann, “Dewetting of liquid filaments in wedge-shaped grooves”, Langmuir 23, 12138 (2007).
• M. D Brown, B. M. Law, L. W. Marschand, L. B. Lurio, I. Kuzmenko, and T. Gog, “X-ray and ellipsometric study of strong critical adsorption”, Phys. Rev. E 75, 061606 (2007).
• M. D Brown, B. M. Law, S. Satija, W. A. Hamilton, E. Watkins, J.-H. J. Cho and J. Majewski, “Comparison of critical adsorption scaling functions obtained from neutron reflectometry and ellipsometry”, J. Chem. Phys. 126, 204704 (2007).
• Y. Takata, J.-H. J. Cho, B. M. Law and M. Aratono, “Ellipsometric search for vapor layers at liquid-hydrophobic solid surfaces”, Langmuir 22, 1715 (2006).
• J.-H. J. Cho and B. M. Law, “Critical adsorption at silicon surfaces in binary liquid mixtures”, Phys. Rev. E 72, 041601 (2005).
• J. K. Whitmer, S. B. Kiselev and B. M. Law, “Adsorption at the liquid-vapor surface of a binary liquid mixture”, J. Chem. Phys. 123, 204720 (2005).
•  L. W. Marschand, M. Brown, L. B. Lurio, B. M. Law, S. Uran, I. Kuzmenko, and T. Gog, “X-ray specular reflectivity study of a critical binary fluid mixture”, Phys. Rev. E 72, 011509 (2005).
• B. M. Law, J.-H. J. Cho, A. Mukhopadhyay, and J. H. Carpenter, “Adsorption-induced finite-size forces operative within fluid systems”, Curr. Appl. Phys. 4, 377 (2004).
• M. Brown, S. Uran, B. Law, L. Marschand, L. Lurio, I. Kuzmenko and T. Gog, “Ultra-stable oven designed for x-ray reflectometry and ellipsometry studies of liquid surfaces”, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 75, 2536 (2004).
• J.-H. J. Cho, B. M. Law, and F. Rieutord, “Dipole-dependent slip of Newtonian liquids at smooth solid hydrophobic surfaces”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 166102 (2004).
• J.-H. J. Cho, J. H. Carpenter and B. M. Law, “Surface adsorption and orientation near the critical point of binary liquid mixtures”, Int. J. Thermophysics 25, 1449 (2004).
• B. M. Law, A. Mukhopadhyay, J. R. Henderson, and J. Y. Wang, “Wetting of silicon wafers by n-alkanes”, Langmuir 19, 8380 (2003).
• B. M. Law, J.-H. J. Cho, A. Mukhopadhyay, and J. H. Carpenter, “Adsorption-induced finite-size forces operative within fluid systems”, Current Appl. Phys. 4, 377 (2004).
• J.-H. J. Cho and B. M. Law, “Surface orientational order at liquid/vapor interfaces induced by dipole-image dipole interactions,” Phys. Rev. E 67, 031605 (2003).
• J. H. J. Cho and B. M. Law, “Dipole orientational order at liquid/vapor surfaces”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 146101 (2002).
• B. M. Law and F. Rieutord, “Electrostatic forces in atomic force microscopy”, Phys. Rev B. 66, 035402 (2002).
• J. H. J. Cho, B. M. Law, and K. Gray, “Strong critical adsorption at the liquid-vapor surface of a nonpolar mixture”, J. Chem. Phys. 116, 3058 (2002).
•  J. H. J. Cho and B. M. Law, “Ellipsometric study of undersaturated critical adsorption”, Phys. Rev. E 65, 011601 (2002). J. Y. Wang, M. Crawley, and B. M. Law, “Contact angle hysteresis near a first-order wetting transition”, Langmuir 17, 2995 (2001).
• J. H. J. Cho and B. M. Law, “Critical adsorption in the weak surface field limit”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2070 (2001).
• Mukhopadhyay and B. M. Law, “Casimir force in a critical film formed from an electrolytic solution”, Phys. Rev. E 63, 041605 (2001).
• B. M. Law, “Wetting, adsorption and surface critical phenomena”, Prog. Surf. Sci. 66, 159 (2001).
• J. Y. Wang, S. Betelu, and B. M. Law, “Line tension approaching a first-order wetting transition: Experimental results from contact angle measurements”, Phys. Rev. E 63, 031601 (2001).
• A. Mukhopadhyay and B. M. Law, “Dipole orientational order at the critical interface”, Phys. Rev. E 63, 011507 (2000).
• A. Mukhopadhyay and B. M. Law, “The Casimir effect in critical films of binary liquid mixtures”, Phys. Rev. E 62, 5201 (2000).
• A. Mukhopadhyay, C. L. Caylor, and B. M. Law, “Evidence for dipole surface orientational order at the critical interfaces”, Phys. Rev. E 61, R1036 (2000).
• J. Carpenter, J.-H. Cho, and B. M. Law, “Ellipsometric determination of universal critical adsorption surface scaling functions”, Phys. Rev. E 61, 532 (2000).
• J. Y. Wang, S. Betelu, and B. M. Law, “Line tension effects near first-order wetting transitions”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3677 (1999).
• A. Mukhopadhyay and B. M. Law, “The critical Casimir effect in binary liquid wetting films”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 772 (1999).
• J. Carpenter, B. M. Law, and D. S. P. Smith, “Universal surface scaling functions for critical adsorption”, Phys. Rev. E 59, 5655 (1999).
• S. Betelu, B. M. Law, and C. C. Huang, “The spreading dynamics of terraced droplets”, Phys. Rev. E 59, 6699 (1999).
• J.-M. Petit, B. M. Law and D. Beysens, “Adsorption-induced aggregation of colloidal particles in binary mixtures. Modeling the pair free energy”, J. Coll. Interf. Sci. 202, 441 (1998).
• B. M. Law, J.-M. Petit, and D. Beysens, “Adsorption-induced reversible colloidal aggregation”, Phys. Rev. E 57, 5782 (1998).
• C. L. Caylor, B. M. Law, P. Senanayake, V. L. Kuzmin, V. P. Romanov, and S. Wiegand, “The critical interface of an ionic Ising mixture”, Phys. Rev. E 56, 4441 (1997).
• S. P. Smith, B. M. Law, M. Smock, and D. P. Landau, “Numerical analysis of ellipsometric critical adsorption data”, Phys. Rev. E 55, 620 (1997).
• B. M. Law and H. K. Pak, “Influence of hydrodynamic flow on nucleated wetting”, J. Chem. Phys. 106, 301 (1997).
• B. M. Law, “Comment on `Nucleation and wetting near surface spinodals”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 2200 (1996).
• D. S. P. Smith and B. M. Law, “Ellipsometric study of critical adsorption and measurement of universal surface integrals”, Phys. Rev. E 54, 2727 (1996).
• C. L. Caylor and B. M. Law, “The scaling behavior of critical adsorption in critical polymer solutions”, J. Chem. Phys. 104, 2070 (1996).
• B. M. Law and H. K. Pak, “Ellipsometric imaging of surface drops”, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13, 379 (1996).
• H. K. Pak and B. M. Law, “2-D imaging ellipsometric microscope”, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 66, 4972 (1995).
• D. S. P. Smith and B. M. Law, “Ellipsometric measurement of universal critical adsorption integrals”, Phys. Rev. E. 52, 580 (1995).
• H. K. Pak and B. M. Law, “Dynamic scaling of wetting layer growth”, Europhys. Lett. 31, 19 (1995).
• B. M. Law, “Nucleated wetting films: The late-time behavior”, Phys. Rev. E 50, 2827 (1994).
• B. M. Law, “Theory of nucleated wetting”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 1698 (1994).
• M. Law, “Surface amplitude ratios and nucleated wetting near a critical end point”, Ber. Bunsenges. Phys. Chem. 98, 472 (1994).
• D. S. P. Smith and B. M. Law, “Ellipsometric measurement of a surface amplitude ratio near a critical end point”, J. Chem. Phys. 99, 9836 (1993).
• B. M. Law, “Metastable wetting layers”, Phys. Rev. E 48, 2760 (1993).
• B. M. Law, “Nucleated wetting layers”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1781 (1992).
• B. M. Law, C. M. Sorensen and F. Zhou, “Critical adsorption at the liquid/vapor surface of multicritical mixtures”, Fluid Phase Equilibria 75, 225 (1992).
• P. N. Segre, R. W. Gammon, J. V. Sengers and B. M. Law, “Rayleigh scattering in a liquid far from thermal equilibrium”, Phys. Rev. A 45, 714 (1992).
• B. M. Law, “Surface amplitude ratios near a critical end point”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 1555 (1991).
• J. V. Sengers and B. M. Law, “Thermal fluctuations in a quiescent liquid far from equilibrium”, Nonlinear and Chaotic Phenomena in Plasmas, Solids and Fluids, W. Rozmus and J. A. Tuszynski (eds.), World Scientific, Singapore, 1991.
• J. V. Sengers and B. M. Law, “Long-range correlations in a fluid out of thermal equilibrium”, Lectures on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, M. Lopez de Haro and C. Varea (eds.), World Scientific, Singapore, 1990.
• J. C. Nieuwoudt and B. M. Law, “Theory of light scattering by a nonequilibrium binary mixture”, Phys. Rev. A 42, 2003 (1990).
• B. M. Law, P. N. Segre, R. W. Gammon and J. V. Sengers, “Light-scattering measurements of entropy and viscous fluctuations in a liquid far from thermal equilibrium”, Phys. Rev. A 41, 816 (1990).
• B. M. Law, “Ellipsometric study of the liquid/pyrex surface: Evidence for orientational order and layering”, J. Coll. Interf. Sci. 134, 1 (1990).
• B. M. Law and J. V. Sengers, “Fluctuations in fluids out of thermal equilibrium”, J. Stat. Phys. 57, 531 (1989).
• B. M. Law and J. C. Nieuwoudt, “Non-critical liquid mixtures far from equilibrium: The Rayleigh line”, Phys. Rev. A 40, 3880 (1989).
• B. M. Law, R. W. Gammon and J. V. Sengers, “Dynamic light-scattering from long-range correlations in a nonequilibrium liquid”, in the Proceedings of the OSA Topical Meeting on Photon Correlation Techniques and Applications, (Optical Society of America, Washington, DC, 1988),
• J. B. Abbiss and A. E. Smart (eds.). B. M. Law, R. W. Gammon and J.V.Sengers, “Light-scattering observations of long-range correlations in a nonequilibrium liquid”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 1554 (1988).
• B. M. Law, “Multilayer wetting phenomenon at a binary liquid-vapor interface. II. Comparison with experiment”, Phys. Rev. B 32, 5996 (1985).
• B. M. Law, “Multilayer wetting phenomenon at a binary liquid-vapor interface. I. Theory”, Phys. Rev. B 32, 5987 (1985).
• B. M. Law and D. Beaglehole, “Model calculations of the ellipsometric properties of inhomogeneous dielectric surfaces”, J. Phys. D 14, 115 (1981).