• Using microfluidics to decouple nucleation and growth of protein crystals 
  J.U. Shim, G. Cristobal G, D.R. Link, T. Thorsen, S. Fraden,
  Crystal Growth & Design 7, 2192-2194 (2007).
• Smectic ordering in athermal systems of rodlike triblock copolymers,
  S. Varga and S. Fraden, J. Chem. Phys. 127, 154902 (2007).
• Crystallization conditions of membrane protein CLC-ec1: An example outside the crystallization slot,
  J. Blouwolff and S. Fraden, J. Crystal Growth 303, 546–553 (2007).
• Influence of charge and flexibility on smectic phase formation in filamentous virus suspensions,
  K. Purdy and S. Fraden, Physical Review E 76, 011705 (2007).
• Control and Measurement of the Phase Behavior of Aqueous Solutions Using Microfluidics
  J.U. Shim, G. Cristobal, D.R. Link, T. Thorsen, Y. Jia, K. Piattelli, S. Fraden,
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129, 8825 - 8835 (2007); DOI: 10.1021/ja071820f
  Supporting Information. Movies.
  Selected by Science as an "Editors' Choice" and by Lab on a Chip as a "Research Highlight".
• The coordination number of granular cylinders, J. Blouwolff and S. Fraden, Europhys. Lett., 76, 1095–1101 (2006).
• Soft Matter, vol. 2: Complex Colloidal Suspensions, Gompper, G / Schick, M (eds.), Chap. 1: “Phase Behavior of Rod-Like Viruses and Virus–Sphere Mixtures”, Z. Dogic and S. Fraden, 1^st ed., Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2006.
• Ordered phases of filamentous viruses. Z. Dogic and S. Fraden, Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science 11, 47 (2006).
• Light scattering and phase behavior of Lysozyme-PEG mixtures. J. Bloustine, T. Virmani, G. M. Thurston, and S. Fraden. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 087803 (2006).
• Nematic-nematic phase separation in binary mixtures of thick and thin hard rods:
  Results from Onsager-like theories. S. Varga, K. Purdy, A. Galindo, S. Fraden, and G. Jackson. Phys Rev E 72, 051704 (2005).
  
• Nematic Phase transitions in Mixtures of Thin and Thick Colloidal Rods. K. R. Purdy, S. Varga, A. Galindo, G. Jackson, and S. Fraden. Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 057801 (2005).
• Isotropic-cholesteric phase transition of filamentous virus suspensions as a function of rod length and charge. K. R. Purdy and S. Fraden. Phys. Rev. E 70, 061703 (2004).
• Isotropic-Nematic phase transition in suspensions of filamentous virus and the neutral polymer Dextran. Z. Dogic, K. Purdy, E. Grelet, M. Adams, and S. Fraden. Phys. Rev. E 69, 051702 (2004).
• Surface Freezing and a two step pathway of the isotropic-smectic phase transition in colloidal rods. Z. Dogic. Phys. Rev. Lett 91, 165701 (2003).
• Our lab mentioned in Science News, Vol. 164, No. 1, July 5, 2003, p. 7.
  Microbial Materials: Scientists co-opt viruses, bacteria, and fungi to build new structures
• Measurements of Protein-Protein Interactions by Size Exclusion Chromatography J. Bloustine, V. Berejnov and S. Fraden, Biophysical Journal 85: 2619-2623 (2003).
• What is the origin of chirality in the cholesteric phase of virus suspensions? E. Grelet and S. Fraden. Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 198302 (2003).
• Measuring the nematic order of colloidal fd virus by x-ray diffraction K. Purdy, Z. Dogic, S. Fraden. A. Ruehm, L. Lurio, and S. G. J. Mochrie. Phys. Rev. E. 67 031708 (2003).
• Development of model colloidal liquid crystals and the kinetics of the isotropic-smectic transition Z. Dogic and S. Fraden, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A 359, 997 - 1015 (2001).
• Self-Assembly in Vivo, with R. Kamien,  Biophys. J. 78,  2189 (2000).
• Enhanced stability of layered phases in parallel hard-spherocylinders due to the addition of hard spheres Z. Dogic, D. Frenkel , S. Fraden, Physical Review E 62, 3925 - 3933 (2000).
• Concentration Dependent Sedimentation of Colloidal Rods Z. Dogic, A.P. Philipse, S. Fraden, and J.K.G. Dhont, J. Chem. Phys. 113, 8368 - 8380 (2000).
• Cholesteric Phase in Virus Suspensions Z. Dogic and S. Fraden, Langmuir 16, 7820 - 7824 (2000).
• Structure of Electrorheological Fluids U. Dassanayake, S. Fraden, and A. van Blaaderen, Journal of Chemical Physics 112, 3851- 3858 (2000).
• Entropically driven microphase transitions in mixtures of colloidal rods and spheres. Marie Adams, Zvonimir Dogic, Sarah L. Keller, and Seth Fraden. Nature 393: 349-352 (May 28, 1998).  
• Another Face of Entropy Peter Weiss, Science News, Aug. 15, 1998. News article on depletion, entropy, protein crystallization .....
• Solving the Poisson-Boltzmann equation to Obtain Interaction Energies Between Confined, Like-Charged Cylinders M.. Ospeck and S. Fraden, J. Chem. Phys. 109, 9166 - 9171 (1998).  
• Phase behavior of mixtures of rods (Tobacco Mosaic Virus) and spheres (Polyethylene Oxide, Bovine Serum Albumin) Marie Adams and Seth Fraden. Biophysical Journal 74, 669-677 (1998). 
  
• The Smectic Phase in a Colloidal Suspension of Semi-Flexible Virus Particles Zvonimir Dogic and Seth Fraden. Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2417-2420 (1997).
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• Non-Monotonic Temperature Dependence of the Flexibility of Bacteriophage fd  Jianxin Tang and Seth Fraden. Biopolymers 39, 13 - 22 (1996).
• Phase transitions in colloidal suspensions of virus particles. S. Fraden, M. Baus, L. F. Rull, and J. P. Ryckaert, editors, In "Observation, Prediction, and Simulation of Phase Transitions in Complex Fluids", NATO-ASI Series C, vol. 460, pages 113--164. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. 
• Isotropic-Cholesteric phase transition in colloidal suspensions of bacteriophage fd
  Jianxin Tang and Seth Fraden. Liquid Crystals 19, 459-467 (1995).
• Video microscopy study of the potential energy of a colloidal particle confined between two plates. G. M. Kepler and S. Fraden, Langmuir 10, 2501 - 2506 (1994).
• Attractive potential between confined colloids at low ionic strength. G. M. Kepler and S. Fraden, Phys. Rev. Letts. 73, 356 - 359 (1994).
• Electric-field-induced association of colloidal particles. S. Fraden, A. J. Hurd, and R. B. Meyer, Phys. Rev. Letts. 63, 2373 - 2376 (1989).
  

List of previous papers

Recent Theses:

• Novel Approach to Protein Crystallization; Control of the Phase Behavior of Aqueous Solutions using Microfluidics, Jung uk Shim (February 2007)
• Experimental Investigations into Interactions and Collective Behavior in Protein/Polymer Mixtures and Granular Rods, Joshua David Bloustine (May 2006)
• Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions in Mondisperse and Bidisperse Suspensions of Rodlike Colloidal Virus, Kirstin R. Purdy (Aug. 2004)
• Liquid Crystalline Phase Transitions in Virus and Virus/Polymer Suspensions, Zvonimir Dogic (Feb 2000)