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2022

• Hosseini, M., Babayekhorasani, F., Guo, Z., Liang, K., Chen, V., Spicer, P. T., Propulsion, deformation, and confinement response of hollow nanocellulose millimotors, J. Coll. Int. Sci., 628, 435-445, (2022). pdf or preprint
• Marasini, N., Sheikh, Z., Wong, C., Hosseini, M., Spicer, P. T., Young, P., Ong, H. X., Traini, D., Development of excipients free inhalable co-spray-dried tobramycin and diclofenac formulations for cystic fibrosis using two and three fluid nozzles, Int. J. Pharm., 624, 121989, (2022).
• Babayekhorasani, F., Hosseini, M., Spicer, P. T., Molecular and colloidal transport in bacterial cellulose biofilms, Biomacromolecules, 23, 6, 2404-2414 (2022). pdf or preprint
• Bradbury, P., Cidem, A., Mahmoodi, H., Davies, J., Spicer, P. T., Prescott, S., Kabakova, I., Ong, H., & Traini, D., Timothy Grass Pollen Induces Spatial Reorganisation of F-Actin and Loss of Junctional Integrity in Respiratory Cells, Inflammation, doi: 10.1007/s10753-021-01614-9 (2022). pdf
• Muin, R., Spicer, P., Tang, K., Niu, Y., Hosseini, M., Mostaghimi, P., & Armstrong, R. T., Dynamic X-ray tomography of microfibrous cellulose liquid foams using deep learning. Chem. Eng. Sci., 248, 117173 (2022). pdf
• Giso, M., Zhao, H., Spicer, P., & Atherton, T., A phase diagram of morphologies for anisotropic particles sculpted from emulsions. J. Colloid Interface Sci., 605, 138-145 (2022). pdf
• Sebben, D., MacWilliams, S., Yu, L., Spicer, P., Bulone, V., Krasowska, M., & Beattie, D., Influence of Aqueous Phase Composition on Double Emulsion Stability and Colour Retention of Encapsulated Anthocyanins, Foods, 11, 134 (2022). pdf

2020

• Blamires, S. J., Spicer, P. T. & Flanagan, P. J., Spider Silk Biomimetics Programs to Inform the Development of New Wearable Technologies. Front. Matls. 7, 1-7 (2020). pdf
• Caggioni, M., Trappe, V. & Spicer, P. T., Variations of the Herschel-Bulkley exponent reflecting contributions of the viscous continuous phase to the shear rate-dependent stress of soft glassy materials. J. Rheol. 64, 413-422 (2020). pdf
• Poulichet, V., Terkel, M., Spicer, P. T., Traini, D. & Young, P. M. Selective shape-change response by anisotropic endoskeletal droplets. Extrem. Mech. Lett. 35, 100618 (2020). pdf
• Spicer, P. T., Caggioni, M. & Squires, T. M., Complex Fluid Formulations : A Source of Inspiration and Innovation. Chem. Eng. Prog. 116, 32-38 (2020). pdf preprint
• Thiel, A., Atherton, T. J., Spicer, P. T. & Hartel, R. W., Aggregation in viscoelastic emulsion droplet gels with capillarity-driven rearrangements. Soft Matter 16, 5506-5513 (2020). pdf
• Giso, M., Zhao, H., Spicer, P., Atherton, T., Crystal Comets: A Geometric Model for Sculpting Anisotropic Particles from Emulsion, Langmuir 36, 13853-13859 (2020). pdf

2019

• Nowbahar, A., Connor, A. O., Mansard, V., Spicer, P. & Squires, T. M., Salt comets in hand sanitizer : A simple probe of microgel collapse dynamics. Phys. Rev. Fluids 061301, 1-9 (2019). pdf
• Sacanna, S., Spicer, P. & Velikov, K. P., Editorial overview: Particle system shape change and response. Curr. Opin. Colloid Interface Sci. 40, A1-A3 (2019). pdf
• Song, J., Babayekhorasani, F. & Spicer, P. T., Soft Bacterial Cellulose Microcapsules with Adaptable Shapes. Biomacromolecules 20, 4437-4446 (2019). pdf
• Song, J., Caggioni, M., Squires, T. M., Gilchrist, J. F., Prescott, S. W., & Spicer, P. T., Heterogeneity, suspension, and yielding in sparse microfibrous cellulose gels 1: Bubble rheometer studies. Rheo. Acta 58, 217-229 (2019). pdf
• Song, J., Caggioni, M., Squires, T. M., Gilchrist, J. F., Prescott, S. W., & Spicer, P. T., Heterogeneity, suspension, and yielding in sparse microfibrous cellulose gels 2: strain rate-dependent two-fluid behavior. Rheo. Acta 58, 231-239 (2019). pdf
• Wang, H., Zetterlund, P. B., Boyer, C. & Spicer, P. T., Polymerization of cubosome and hexosome templates to produce complex microparticle shapes. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 546, 240-250 (2019). pdf
• Xie, Z., Burke, C. J., Mbanga, B., Spicer, P. T. & Atherton, T. J., Geometry and kinetics determine the microstructure in arrested coalescence of Pickering emulsion droplets. Soft Matter 15, 9587-9596 (2019). pdf
• Hong, L. et al., Comparison of bulk and microfluidic methods to monitor the phase behaviour of nanoparticles during digestion of lipid-based drug formulations using in situ X-ray scattering. Soft Matter 15, 9565-9578 (2019). pdf

2018

• Bayles, A. V., Prileszky, T. A., Spicer, P. T. & Furst, E. M., Model of Structured Emulsion Droplet Stability and Reconfigurability. Langmuir 34, 4116-4121 (2018). pdf
• Caggioni, M., Traini, D., Young, P. M. & Spicer, P. T., Microfluidic production of endoskeleton droplets with controlled size and shape. Powder Technol. 329, 129-136 (2018). pdf
• Hao, C., Xie, Z., Atherton, T. J. & Spicer, P. T., Arrested Coalescence of Viscoelastic Droplets: Ellipsoid Shape Effects and Reorientation. Langmuir 34, 12379-12386 (2018). pdf preprint
• Kwandou, G., Mai-Prochnow, A., Prescott, S. W., Spicer, P. T. & Cullen, P. J., Atmospheric air plasma induces increased cell aggregation during the formation of Escherichia coli biofilms. Plasma Process. Polym. 15, 1700212 (2018). pdf
• Nash, J. J., Spicer, P. T. & Erk, K. A., Controllable internal mixing in coalescing droplets induced by the solutal Marangoni convection of surfactants with distinct headgroup architectures. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 529, 224-233 (2018). pdf
• Wang, H. et al., Large Hexosomes from Emulsion Droplets: Particle Shape and Mesostructure Control. Langmuir 34, 13662-13671 (2018). pdf
• Wei, Z. et al., Comparing surfactant structures at soft and hard hydrophobic materials: Not all interfaces are equivalent. Langmuir 34, 9141-9152 (2018). pdf

2017

• Batchelor, R. R., Kwandou, G., Spicer, P. T. & Stenzel, M. H., Riboflavin (vitamin B2) and flavin mononucleotide as visible light photo initiators in the thiol--ene polymerisation of PEG-based hydrogels. Polym. Chem. 8, 980-984 (2017). pdf
• Dahiya, P. et al., Arrested coalescence of viscoelastic droplets: triplet shape and restructuring. Soft Matter 13, 2686-2697 (2017). pdf
• Thiel, A. E., Hartel, R. W. & Spicer, P. T., Fat Crystals Influence Methylcellulose Stabilization of Lipid Emulsions. J Am Oil Chem Soc 94, 325-331 (2017). pdf
• Wang, H. et al., Soft polyhedral particles based on cubic liquid crystalline emulsion droplets. Soft Matter 13, 8492-8501 (2017). pdf
• Young, P. M. et al., Novel nano-cellulose excipient for generating non-Newtonian droplets for targeted nasal drug delivery. Drug Dev. Ind. Pharm. 43, 1729-1733 (2017). pdf

2016

• Dahiya, P., Caggioni, M. and Spicer, P. T., "Arrested coalescence of viscoelastic droplets: polydisperse doublets," Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 374, 20150132 (2016). pdf
• Ghadiri, M. et al. Effect of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) on airway epithelial cells tight junction. Pulm. Pharmacol. Ther. 40, 30-38 (2016). pdf

2015

• Caggioni, M., Lenis, J., Bayles, A. V., Furst, E. M. and Spicer, P. T., "Temperature-induced collapse, and arrested collapse, of anisotropic endoskeleton droplets," Langmuir 31, 8558-8565 (2015). pdf
  
• Burke, C. J., Mbanga, B. L., Wei, Z., Spicer, P. T. and Atherton, T. J., "The role of curvature anisotropy in the ordering of spheres on an ellipsoid," Soft Matter 11, 5872-5882 (2015). pdf
• Ergun, R., Hartel, R. W. and Spicer, P. T., "Kinetic effects on interfacial partitioning of fat crystals," Food Structure 5, 1-9 (2015). pdf
• Spicer, P. T. and Gilchrist, J. F., "Microstructure, Rheology, and Processing of Complex Fluids," in Advances in Industrial Mixing: A Companion to the Handbook of Industrial Mixing, 2015. pdf
• Dong, S., Spicer, P. T., Lucien, F. P. and Zetterlund, P. B., "Synthesis of crosslinked polymeric nanocapsules using catanionic vesicle templates stabilized by compressed CO2," Soft Matter 11, 8613-8620 (2015). pdf
• Tangso, K. J., Patel, H. Lindberg, S. Hartley, P. G., Knott, R. Spicer, P. T., and Boyd, B. J., "Controlling the Mesostructure Formation within the Shell of Novel Cubic/Hexagonal Phase Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide-Poly(acrylamide-acrylic acid) Capsules for pH Stimulated Release." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7, 24501-24509 (2015). pdf

2014

• Caggioni, M., Bayles, A., Lenis, J., Furst, E., and Spicer, P., "Interfacial Stability and Shape Change of Anisotropic Endoskeleton Droplets," Soft Matter 10, 38, 7647-7652 (2014). pdf
• Tangso, K., Lindberg, S., Hartley, P., Knott, R., Spicer, P., and Boyd, B., "Formation of liquid crystalline structures in the bile salt-chitosan system and triggered release from lamellar phase bile salt-chitosan capsules," ACS Appl. Matls. & Interfaces 6, 15, 12363-12371 (2014). pdf
  

2013

• Emady, H. N., Caggioni, M., and Spicer, P., "Colloidal microstructure effects on particle sedimentation in yield stress fluids," J. Rheology, 57, 1761 (2013). pdf

2012

• Pawar, A., Caggioni, M., Hartel, R., and Spicer, P., "Arrested coalescence of viscoelastic droplets with internal microstructure," Faraday Discussions, 158, 341-350 (2012). pdf
• Porter, D., Savage, J. R., Cohen, I., Spicer, P., and Caggioni, M., "Temperature dependence of droplet breakup in 8CB and 5CB liquid crystals," Physical Review E, 85, 041701 (2012). pdf

2011

• Pawar, A., Caggioni, M., Ergun, R., Hartel, R., Spicer, P., "Arrested Coalescence in Pickering Emulsions," Soft Matter, 7, 7710-7716 (2011). pdf

2010

• Solomon, M. and Spicer, P., "Microstructural Regimes of Colloidal Rod Suspensions, Gels, and Glasses," Soft Matter, 6, 1391-1400 (2010) pdf Figure 1 Figure 4
• Savage, J., Caggioni, M., Spicer, P., Cohen, I., "Partial Universality: Pinch-Off Dynamics in Fluids with Smectic Liquid Crystalline Order.," Soft Matter, 6, 892-895 (2010). pdf

2009

• Wilkins, G., Spicer, P., Solomon, M., "Colloidal System to Explore Structural and Dynamical Transitions in Rod Networks, Gels, and Glasses," Langmuir, 25, 8951–59 (2009). pdf

2008

• Savin, T., Spicer, P., Doyle, P. S., "A Rational Approach to Noise Discrimination in Video Microscopy Particle Tracking," Appl. Phys. Lett., 93, 024102 (2008). pdf

2007

• Shen, A. Q., Wang, D., Spicer, P., "Kinetics of Colloidal Templating Using Emulsion Drop Consolidation," Langmuir, 23, 12821-26 (2007). pdf
• Tangso, K. J., Patel, H. Lindberg, S. Hartley, P. G., Knott, R. Spicer, P. T., and Boyd, B. J., "Controlling the Mesostructure Formation within the Shell of Novel Cubic/Hexagonal Phase Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide-Poly(acrylamide-acrylic acid) Capsules for pH Stimulated Release." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7, 24501-24509 (2015). pdf
• Caggioni, M., Spicer, P., Blair, D., Lindberg, S., Weitz, D., "Rheology and Microrheology of a Microstructured Fluid: The Gellan Gum Case," J. Rheology, 55, 851-65 (2007). pdf

2006

• Steinhaus, B., Spicer, P., Shen, A., "Droplet Size Effects on Film Drainage between Droplet and Substrate," Langmuir, 22, 5308-13 (2006). pdf

2005

• Spicer, P., Hartel, R., "Crystal Comets: Dewetting During Emulsion Droplet Crystallization," Aust. J. Chem., 58, 655-59 (2005). pdf
• Spicer, P., "Cubosome Processing: Industrial Nanoparticle Technology Development," Chem. Eng. Res. Des., 83, 1283-86 (2005). pdf
• Spicer, P., "Progress in Liquid Crystalline Dispersions: Cubosomes," Curr. Opin. Colloid Int. Sci., 10, 274-79 (2005). pdf

2003

• Spicer, P., "Cubosomes: Bicontinuous Cubic Liquid Crystalline Nanostructured Particles," in J.A. Schwarz, C. Contescu, K. Putyera (Eds.), Marcel Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Marcel Dekker, New York, 2003, p. 881-92. pdf
• Spicer, P., Lynch, M., Visscher, M., Hoath, S., "Bicontinuous Cubic Liquid Crystalline Phase and Cubosome Personal Care Delivery Systems," in M. Rosen (Ed.), Personal Care Delivery Systems and Formulations. Noyes Publishing, 2003. pdf
• Spicer, P., "Cubosome Formation via Dilution - Kinetic Effects and Consumer Product Implications," in F. Case, P. Alexandridis (Eds.), Mesoscale Phenomena in Liquid Systems. ACS, 2003, p. 346-59. pdf
• Lynch, M., Ofori-Boateng, A., Hippe, A., Kochvar, K., Spicer, P., "Enhanced Loading of Water-Soluble Actives into Bicontinuous Cubic Phase Liquid Crystals Using Cationic Surfactants," J. Colloid Interface Sci., 260, 40413 (2003). pdf

2002

• Spicer, P., Small, W. B., Lynch, M. L., Burns, J. L., "Dry Powder Precursors of 'Soft' Cubic Liquid Crystalline Nanoparticles (Cubosomes)," J. Nanopart. Res., 4, 297-311 (2002). pdf
• Spicer, P., Chaoul, O., Tsantilis, S., Pratsinis, S. E., "Titania Formation by TiCl4 Gas Phase Oxidation, Surface Growth and Coagulation," J. Aerosol Sci., 33, 17-34 (2002). pdf

2001

• Spicer, P., Hayden, K., Lynch, M., Ofori-Boateng, A., Burns, J., "Novel Process for Producing Cubic Liquid Crystalline Nanoparticles (Cubosomes)," Langmuir, 17, 5748-56 (2001). pdf

1999

• Flesch, J. C., Spicer, P., Pratsinis, S. E., "Laminar and Turbulent Shear-Induced Flocculation of Fractal Aggregates," AIChE J., 45, 1114-24 (1999). pdf
• Spicer, P., Pratsinis, S., Willemse, A., Merkus, H., Scarlett, B., "Monitoring the Dynamics of Concentrated Suspensions by Enhanced Backward Light Scattering," Part. Part. Syst. Charact., 16, 201-06 (1999). pdf

1998

• Spicer, P., Artelt, C., Sanders, S., Pratsinis, S., "Flame Synthesis of Composite Carbon Black-Fumed Silica Nanostructured Particles," J. Aerosol Sci., 29, 647-59 (1998). pdf
• Pratsinis, S., Spicer, P., "Competition between Gas Phase and Surface Oxidation of TiCl4 During Synthesis of Tio2 Particles," Chem. Eng. Sci., 53, 1861-68 (1998). pdf

1997

• Spicer, P., Pratsinis, S. E., Raper, J., Amal, R., Bushell, G., Meesters, G., "Effect of Shear Schedule on Particle Size, Density, and Structure During Flocculation in Stirred Tanks," Powder Tech., 97, 26-34 (1998). pdf
• Shear-Induced Aggregation-Fragmentation: Mixing and Aggregate Morphology Effects, Ph.D. Thesis (1997). pdf

1996

• Spicer, P., Keller, W., Pratsinis, S., "The Effect of Impeller Type on Floc Size and Structure During Shear-Induced Flocculation," J. Colloid Interface Sci., 184, 112-22 (1996). pdf
• Spicer, P., Pratsinis, S., Trennepohl, M., Meesters, G., "Coagulation and Fragmentation: The Variation of Shear Rate and the Time Lag for Attainment of Steady State," Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 35, 3074-80 (1996). pdf
• Spicer, P., Pratsinis, S., "Coagulation and Fragmentation: Universal Steady-State Particle-Size Distribution," AIChE J., 42, 1612-20 (1996). pdf
• Spicer, P., Pratsinis, S., "Shear-Induced Flocculation: The Evolution of Floc Structure and the Shape of the Size Distribution at Steady State," Water Res., 30, 1049-56 (1996). pdf

Patents

• Spicer P; Caggioni M; Bayles AV; Lenis-Abrili J, Non-spherical droplet, USA, 9,597,648, 2017 pdf
• Spicer P; Caggioni M; Lenis J; Bayles AV, Non-spherical droplet, Europe, EP 2909298 B1, 2017 pdf
• Spicer P; Caggioni M; Bayles AV; Lenis-Abrili J, Shape-changing droplet, EP2909299 B1, 2017 pdf
• Corona, A., Frankenbach, G., Lindberg, S., Sivik, M., Spicer, P., Waning, G., Fabric care compositions comprising a poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride-co-acrylic acid), process of making, and method of use, USA, 8,372,795 B2, 2013, 10 pp. pdf
• Lynch, M., Spicer, P., Cubic Liquid Crystalline Phase Precursor, European Patent EP 1373433 B1, 2008, 20 pp. pdf
• Spicer, P., Small, W., Lynch, M., Cubic Liquid Crystalline Compositions and Methods for Their Preparation, USA, 7,008,646, 2006, 17 pp. pdf
• Lynch, M., Spicer, P., Functionalized Cubic Liquid Crystalline Phase Materials and Methods for Their Preparation and Use, USA, 6,936,187, 2005, 17 pp. pdf
• Lynch, M., Spicer, P., Cubic Liquid Crystalline Compositions and Methods for Their Preparation, USA, 6,773,627, 2004, 30 pp. pdf
• Lynch, M., Spicer, P., Functionalized Cubic Liquid Crystalline Phase Materials and Methods for Their Preparation and Use, USA, 6,656,385, 2003, 14 pp. pdf

Media

• 2014 A brief Introduction to Soft Matter
  
• 2005 Detergency movies on CD included with Gouttes, bulles, perles et ondes

Books

• 2005 Bicontinuous liquid crystals