Publications
2022
14. Asadi, S., Nelson, A. Z., Doyle, P.S. (2022). Producing shape-engineered alginate particles using viscoplastic fluids, Soft Matter, 18 (36), 6848-6856. PDF download
13. Aw, J.E., X. Zhang, Nelson, A. Z., Dean, L.M., Yourdkhani, M., Ewoldt, R.H., Geubelle, P.H., Sottos, N.R. (2022). Self-regulative, free-form printing enabled by frontal polymerization, Advanced Materials Technologies, 7 (9), 22000230. PDF download
12. Nelson, A. Z. (2022). The Soft Matter Kitchen: Improving the accessibility of rheology education and outreach through food materials. Physics of Fluids, 34 (3), 031801. PDF download
11. Ng, D. Z. L., Nelson, A. Z., Ward, G., Lai, D., Doyle, P. S., & Khan, S. A. (2022). Control of Drug-Excipient Particle Attributes with Droplet Microfluidic-based Extractive Solidification Enables Improved Powder Rheology. Pharmaceutical Research, 39 (2), 411–421. PDF download
10. Nelson, A. Z., Wang, Y., Wang, Y., Margotta, A. S., Sammler, R. L., Izmitli, A., Katz, J. S., Curtis-Fisk, J., Li, Y., & Ewoldt, R. H. (2022). Gelation under stress: impact of shear flow on the formation and mechanical properties of methylcellulose hydrogels. Soft Matter, 18 (7), 1554–1565. PDF download
2021
9.. Nelson, A. Z., Xie, J., Khan, S. A., & Doyle, P. S. (2021). Continuous embedded droplet printing in yield-stress fluids for pharmaceutical drug particle synthesis. Advanced Materials Technologies, 6 (4), 2001245. PDF download
2020
8.. Nelson, A. Z., Kundukad, B., Wong, W. K., Khan, S. A., & Doyle, P. S. (2020). Embedded droplet printing in yield-stress fluids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,
Mar 2020, 117 (11) 5671-5679. PDF download
2019
7. Nelson, A. Z., Schweizer, K. S., Rauzan, B. M., Nuzzo, R. G., Vermant, J., & Ewoldt, R. H. (2019). Designing and transforming yield-stress fluids. Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, 23 (5), 100758. PDF download
6. Miller, K. A., Morado, E. G., Samanta, S. R., Walker, B. A., Nelson, A. Z., Sen, S., Tran, D.T., Whitaker, D.J., Ewoldt, R.H., Braun, P.V., Zimmerman, S. C. (2019). Acid-Triggered, Acid-Generating, and Self-Amplifying Degradable Polymers. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141 (7). PDF download
2018
5. Liu, H., Nelson, A. Z., Ren, Y., Yang, K., Ewoldt, R. H., & Moore, J. S. (2018). Dynamic Remodeling of Covalent Networks via Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization. ACS Macro Letters, 7 (8). PDF download
4. Rauzan, B. M.*, Nelson, A. Z.*, Lehman, S. E., Ewoldt, R. H., & Nuzzo, R. G. (2018). Particle-Free Emulsions for 3D Printing Elastomers. Advanced Functional Materials, 28 (21), 1–12. *co-first author PDF download
3. Nelson, A. Z., Bras, R. E., Liu, J., & Ewoldt, R. H. (2018). Extending yield-stress fluid paradigms. Journal of Rheology, 62 (1) PDF download
2017
2. Nelson, A. Z., & Ewoldt, R. H. (2017). Design of yield-stress fluids: A rheology-to-structure inverse problem. Soft Matter, 13 (41), 7578–7594. PDF download
2015
1. Santos, C. J. E., Nelson, A. Z., Mendoza, E., Ewoldt, R. H., & Kriven, W. M. (2015). Design and fabrication of ceramic beads by the vibration method. Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 35 (13). PDF download
Gallery
Yield-stress fluids can be highly extensible
Poster for the Gallery of Rheology 2017
Yield-stress fluid fingering instability
Poster for the Gallery of Rheology 2017
Mystic Smoke: The Rheology of Magic
Poster for the Gallery of Rheology 2019
Mystic Smoke: The Rheology of Magic for the APS DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion 2017
A presentation on the rheology of magic I gave during my PhD for a class on polymer rheology
A 1-Minute flash presentation I made for MicroTAS2020 Online for my work on a continuous embedded droplet printing platform for pharmaceutical particles