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Soft Matter Group

Confinement and Template Directed Assembly in Chemical and Biomolecular Materials

 

Masa Fukuto

Associate Scientist


Phone: 631.344.5256
Fax: 631.344.2739
Email: fukuto@bnl.gov

Education:

  • Ph.D. 2001, Physics, Harvard University
  • MA, 1997, Physiccs, Harvard University
  • B.S. 1994, Physics and Mathermatics, University of Oregon

Research Interests:

  • Model lipid membranes
  • Fluctuation- induced forces
  • Liquid interfaces
  • Nanoscale wetting
  • Surface x-ray scattering.
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Key Publications:

  • Capillary Wave Fluctuations and Intrinsic Widths of Coupled Fluid/Fluid Interfaces: An X-ray Scattering Study of a Wetting Film on Bulk Liquid, Fukuto, O. Gang, K. J. Alvine, and P. S. Pershan, Phys. Rev. E 74, 031607 (2006).
  • Liquids on Topologically Nano-Patterned Surfaces, O. Gang, K. J. Alvine, M. Fukuto, P. S. Pershan, C. T. Black, and B. M. Ocko, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 217801 (2005).
  • Modulated Phase of Phospholipids with a Two-Dimensional Square Lattice, L. Yang and M. Fukuto, Phys. Rev. E (Rapid Communication) 72, 010901 (2005).
  • Critical Casimir Effect in Three-Dimensional Ising Systems: Measurements on Binary Wetting Films, M. Fukuto, Y. F. Yano, and P. S. Pershan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 135702 (2005).
  • Monolayer/Bilayer Transition in Langmuir Films of Derivatized Gold Nanoparticles at the Gas/Water Interface: An X-ray Scattering Study, M. Fukuto, R. K. Heilmann, P. S. Pershan, A. Badia, and R. B. Lennox, J. Chem. Phys. 120, 3446 (2004).
  • Internal Segregation and Side Chain Ordering in Hairy-Rod Polypeptide Monolayers at the Gas/Water Interface: An X-ray Scattering Study, M. Fukuto, R. K. Heilmann, P. S. Pershan, S. M. Yu, C. M. Soto, and D. A. Tirrell, J. Chem. Phys. 119, 6253 (2003).
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