Primary-Author Papers

  • Peter J. Lu, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Fabio Ciulla, Andrew B. Schofield, Francesco Sciortino and David A. Weitz, “Gelation of particles with short-range attraction” Nature 453, 499 (2008). [ pdf ] [ Supplementary Video 1 (62 MB) ] [ Supplementary Video 2 (48 MB) ] [ Supplementary Video 3 (44 MB) ]
  • Peter J. Lu, Peter A. Sims, Hidekazu Oki, James B. Macarthur, and David A. Weitz, “Target-locking acquisition with real-time confocal (TARC) microscopy,” Optics Express 15, 8702 (2007) [ pdf ] [ Fig. 3 movie: colloids (32 MB) ] [ Fig. 4 movie: cells (11 MB) ] [ Complete source code and circuit diagrams (2 MB) ] [ System demo movie in 720p HD (132 MB) ] [ System demo movie (32 MB) ]
  • Peter J. Lu and Paul J. Steinhardt, “Decagonal and Quasi-crystalline Tilings in Medieval Islamic Architecture,” Science 315, 1106 (2007) [ pdf ] [ Supporting Online Material ]
  • Peter J. Lu, Motohiro Yogo and Charles R. Marshall, “Phanerozoic marine biodiversity dynamics in light of the incompleteness of the fossil record,” Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 103, 2736 (2006). [ pdf ] [ Supporting Information ]
  • Peter J. Lu, Jacinta C. Conrad, Hans M. Wyss, Andrew B. Schofield and David A. Weitz, “Fluids of Clusters in Attractive Colloids,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028306 (2006). [ pdf ]
  • Peter J. Lu, Nan Yao, Jenny F. So, George E. Harlow, Jianfang Lu, Genfu Wang and Paul M. Chaikin, “Earliest Use of Corundum and Diamond in Prehistoric China,” Archaeometry 47, 1 (2005) [ pdf ]
  • Peter J. Lu, “Early Precision Compound Machine from Ancient China,” Science 304, 1638 (2004) [ pdf ] [ Supporting Online Material ]
  • Peter J. Lu, Kenneth Deffeyes, Paul J. Steinhardt and Nan Yao, “Identifying and Indexing Icosahedral Quasicrystals from Powder Diffraction Patterns,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 275507 (2001) [ pdf ]
  • Peter J. Lu, Weitao Pan, and Maitland Jones, Jr., “Benzocyclohex-1-en-3-yne at High Temperature,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 120, 8315 (1998) [ pdf ]

 

Book Chapter and Theses

  • Peter. J. Lu, Gelation and Phase Separation of Attractive Colloids, Harvard University PhD Thesis (2008) [ pdf ]
  • Peter J. Lu, “Confocal Scanning Optical Microscopy and Nanotechnology,” in Handbook of Microscopy for Nanotechnology, N. Yao and Z. L. Wang eds., New York: Kluwer, 2005, pp. 3-24 (2005) [ pdf ]
  • Peter. J. Lu, The Search for New Quasicrystals, Princeton University Senior Thesis (2000) [ pdf ]
  • Peter. J. Lu, Scratching the Surface of Polishing Physics, Princeton University Junior Paper (1999) [ pdf ]

 

Secondary-Author Papers

  • A. S. Risbud, K. B. Helean, Martin C. Wilding, Peter Lu and Alexandra Navrotsky, “Enthalpies of formation of lanthanide oxyapatite phases,” J. Mater. Res. 16, 2780 (2001) [ pdf ]