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  1. Defects in vibrated monolayers of equilateral triangular prisms

    Article • Physical Review Research, December 2025, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  2. Sedimentation profiles and phase stacking diagrams in polydisperse hard rounded rectangle fluids

    Article • Physical Review E, December 2025, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  3. Cell theories for the chiral crystal phase of hard equilateral triangles

    Article • November 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  4. Density-functional theory for clustering of two-dimensional hard particle fluids

    Article • Journal of Molecular Liquids, January 2024, Elsevier

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  5. Prediction of the liquid-crystal phase behavior of hard right triangles from fourth-virial density-functional theories

    Article • July 2023, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  6. Exotic liquid crystalline phases in monolayers of vertically vibrated granular particles

    Article • Liquid Crystals, May 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  7. Effect of combined roundness and polydispersity on the phase behavior of hard-rectangle fluids

    Article • September 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  8. Effect of clustering on the orientational properties of a fluid of hard right isosceles triangles

    Article • Physics of Fluids, March 2022, American Institute of Physics

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  9. Failure of standard density functional theory to describe the phase behavior of a fluid of hard right isosceles triangles

    Article • November 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  10. Orientational ordering in a fluid of hard kites: A density-functional-theory study

    Article • November 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  11. Domain walls in vertically vibrated monolayers of cylinders confined in annuli

    Article • Physical Review Research, September 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  12. Highly confined mixtures of parallel hard squares: A density-functional-theory study

    Article • December 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  13. Defects in vertically vibrated monolayers of cylinders

    Article • New Journal of Physics, March 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  14. Uniform phases in fluids of hard isosceles triangles: One-component fluid and binary mixtures

    Article • May 2018, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  15. Positional ordering of hard adsorbate particles in tubular nanopores

    Article • May 2018, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  16. Role of length polydispersity in the phase behavior of freely rotating hard-rectangle fluids

    Article • May 2017, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  17. Ordering of hard rectangles in strong confinement

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, April 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  18. Clustering in vibrated monolayers of granular rods

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  19. Dynamical properties of heterogeneous nucleation of parallel hard squares

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  20. Phase behaviour and correlations of parallel hard squares: from highly confined to bulk systems

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, April 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  21. Effect of orientational restriction on monolayers of hard ellipsoids

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  22. Biaxial nematic phase stability and demixing behaviour in monolayers of rod–plate mixtures

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  23. Effect of shape biaxiality on the phase behavior of colloidal liquid-crystal monolayers

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  24. Capillary and winding transitions in a confined cholesteric liquid crystal

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Daniel de las Heras, Yuri Martinez-Raton

  25. Hard-body models of bulk liquid crystals

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, October 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  26. Phase behaviour of liquid-crystal monolayers of rod-like and plate-like particles

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, May 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  27. Hard rods in a cylindrical pore: the nematic-to-smectic phase transition

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, January 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  28. Interplay between columnar and smectic stability in suspensions of polydisperse colloidal platelets

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  29. Liquid-crystal patterns of rectangular particles in a square nanocavity

    Article • Physical Review E, September 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  30. Two-dimensional nematics in bulk and confined geometries

    Article • Journal of Molecular Liquids, September 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Daniel de las Heras, Yuri Martinez-Raton

  31. Dimensional crossover of hard parallel cylinders confined on cylindrical surfaces

    Article • Physical Review E, May 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  32. Effect of polydispersity, bimodality, and aspect ratio on the phase behavior of colloidal platelet suspensions

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, October 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  33. Phase behaviour of mixtures of hard ellipses: a scaled particle density functional study

    Article • Liquid Crystals, June 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  34. Theory and simulation of the confined Lebwohl-Lasher model

    Article • Physical Review E, April 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  35. Effect of polydispersity and soft interactions on the nematic versus smectic phase stability in platelet suspensions

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, March 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  36. Fluid–fluid versus fluid–solid demixing in mixtures of parallel hard hypercubes

    Article • Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment, February 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  37. Biaxial nematic phases in fluids of hard board-like particles

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  38. Competition between capillarity, layering and biaxiality in a confined liquid crystal

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, May 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  39. Surface and smectic layering transitions in binary mixtures of parallel hard rods

    Article • Physical Review E, February 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Daniel de las Heras, Yuri Martinez-Raton

  40. Phase transitions in nanoconfined binary mixtures of highly oriented colloidal rods

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Daniel de las Heras, Yuri Martinez-Raton

  41. Stable smectic phase in suspensions of polydisperse colloidal platelets with identical thickness

    Article • Physical Review E, October 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Zhengdong Cheng, Yuri Martinez-Raton

  42. Smectic and columnar ordering in length-polydisperse fluids of parallel hard cylinders

    Article • Molecular Physics, February 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  43. Enhanced stability of the tetratic phase due to clustering

    Article • Physical Review E, January 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  44. Novel symmetries and clustering effects in two—dimensional anisotropic fluids

    Article • January 2009, American Institute of Physics

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  45. Erratum: “Nonuniform liquid-crystalline phases of parallel hard rod-shaped particles: From ellipsoids to cylinders” [J. Chem. Phys. 129, 054907 (2008)]

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, November 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  46. Biaxial nematic and smectic phases of parallel particles with different cross sections

    Article • Physical Review E, September 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  47. Nonuniform liquid-crystalline phases of parallel hard rod-shaped particles: From ellipsoids to cylinders

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, August 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  48. Phase behavior of parallel hard cylinders

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, May 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  49. Fundamental-measure density functional for mixtures of parallel hard cylinders

    Article • Physical Review E, May 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  50. Large attractive depletion interactions in soft repulsive–sphere binary mixtures

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, December 2007, American Institute of Physics

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  51. Demixing and orientational ordering in mixtures of rectangular particles

    Article • Physical Review E, September 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Daniel de las Heras, Yuri Martinez-Raton

  52. Capillary ordering and layering transitions in two-dimensional hard-rod fluids

    Article • Physical Review E, May 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  53. Binary Mixtures of Hard Rods: A Short Account

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, March 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  54. Depletion effects in smectic phases of hard-rod-hard-sphere mixtures

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, October 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  55. Orientational ordering in hard rectangles: The role of three-body correlations

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, July 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  56. Smectic, nematic, and isotropic phases in binary mixtures of thin and thick hard spherocylinders

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, June 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  57. Demixing behavior in two-dimensional mixtures of anisotropic hard bodies

    Article • Physical Review E, September 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  58. Stability of smectic phases in hard-rod mixtures

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, September 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  59. Effect of particle geometry on phase transitions in two-dimensional liquid crystals

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, January 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  60. Erratum: Bulk inhomogeneous phases of anisotropic particles: A fundamental measure functional study of the restricted orientations model [Phys. Rev. E69, 061712 (2004)]

    Article • Physical Review E, October 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  61. Bulk inhomogeneous phases of anisotropic particles: A fundamental measure functional study of the restricted orientations model

    Article • Physical Review E, June 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  62. Phase diagrams of Zwanzig models: The effect of polydispersity

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, May 2003, American Institute of Physics

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  63. Close to the edge of fundamental measure theory: a density functional for hard-sphere mixtures

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, November 2002, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  64. Enhancement by Polydispersity of the Biaxial Nematic Phase in a Mixture of Hard Rods and Plates

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  65. Phase behaviour of very asymmetric binary mixtures

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, February 2000, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  66. A density functional approach to depletion interaction

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, December 1999, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  67. Fundamental measure theory for mixtures of parallel hard cubes. II. Phase behavior of the one-component fluid and of the binary mixture

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, July 1999, American Institute of Physics

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  68. Nematic to Smectic: A “Hard” Transition

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  69. Phase behavior of additive binary mixtures in the limit of infinite asymmetry

    Article • October 1998, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  70. Theoretical study of the anomalous surface tension properties of liquid crystals

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, February 1998, American Institute of Physics

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  71. Fundamental measure theory for mixtures of parallel hard cubes. I. General formalism

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, October 1997, American Institute of Physics

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  72. Dimensional Crossover of the Fundamental-Measure Functional for Parallel Hard Cubes

    Article • Physical Review Letters, May 1997, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  73. Surface-enhanced ordering and layer-thinning transitions in freely suspended smectic-A films

    Article • February 1997, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  74. Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, November 1996, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  75. Metastability of freely suspended liquid-crystal films

    Article • March 1996, American Physical Society (APS)

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  76. Smectic-A ordering in liquid crystal films

    Article • Faraday Discussions, January 1996, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Yuri Martinez-Raton

  77. Density Functional Theories of Hard Particle Systems

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Yuri Martinez-Raton