• Spontaneous Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Polydisperse Achiral Near-Rigid Nematogens 

William S. Fall ✉ & Henricus H. Wensink ✉

2025 (Submitted) 

2024

• Molecular Simulations of Quantized Lamellar Thickening in Polyethylenes with Regularly Spaced Brominated Groups

Kutlwano Gabana, Gillian A. Gehring, Hendrik Meyer, Goran Ungar, Xiangbing Zeng ✉ & William S. Fall ✉

Macromolecules 2024, 57, 24, 11311–11321

• Branches, Tie Chains and Entanglements in Bimodal Polyethylene Single Crystals under Uniaxial Tensile Strain

William S. Fall ✉, Jorg Baschnagel & Hendrik Meyer 

2024 (Submitted)

• Phase behavior of polymer dispersed liquid crystals, comparison between mean-field theory, and coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations.

William S. Fall, Hima Bindu Kolli, Biswaroop Mukherjee, Buddhapriya Chakrabarti ✉

Soft Matter  2024, 20, 7735-7751

• Large-area, self-healing block copolymer membranes for energy conversion

Christian C. M. Sproncken, Peng Liu, Justin Monney, William S. Fall, Carolina Pierucci, Philip B. V. Scholten, Brian Van Bueren, Marcos Penedo, Georg Ernest Fantner, Henricus H. Wensink, Ullrich Steiner, Christoph Weder, Nico Bruns, Michael Mayer ✉ & Alessandro Ianiro ✉

Nature 2024, 630, 866–871 

• Complex Smectic Phases in Polymer Grafted Shape-Uniform Cellulose Nanocrystals

William S. Fall ✉, Henricus H. Wensink ✉

Macromolecules 2024, 57, 19, 8957–8969

2023

• Molecular Simulations of Controlled Polymer Crystallisation in Polyethylene

William S. Fall ✉, Jorg Baschnagel, Olivier Benzerara, Olivier Lhost, Hendrik Meyer ✉

ACS Macro Letters 2023, 12, 6, 808–813 

2022

• Role of Short Chain Branching in Crystalline Model Polyethylenes

William S. Fall ✉, Jorg Baschnagel, Olivier Lhost, Hendrik Meyer ✉

Macromolecules 2022, 2022, 55, 19, 8438–8450 

2021

• Roughening Transition and Quasi-continuous Melting of Monolayers of Ultra-long Alkanes: Why Bulk Polymer Melting Is Strongly First-Order

Ruibin Zhang, William S. Fall, Kyle Wm Hall, Gillian A. Gehring, Xiangbing Zeng ✉, Goran Ungar ✉

Macromolecules 2021, 54, 21, 10135–10149

• The Statistics of The Ordering of Chiral Ribbons on a Honeycomb Lattice

Maxine M McCarthy, William S Fall, Xiangbing Zeng, Goran Ungar, Gillian A Gehring ✉

J. Stat. Mech. 2021 083203

• Quasi-Continuous Melting of Model Polymer Monolayers Prompts Reinterpretation of Polymer Melting

Ruibin Zhang, William S. Fall, Kyle Wm Hall, Gillian A. Gehring, Xiangbing Zeng ✉, Goran Ungar ✉

Nature Communications 2021 12, 1710 

2020

• Statistical Mechanics of Supermolecular Self-Assembly in Soft Matter Systems

William S Fall ✉

University of Sheffield 2020

2019

• An Ising Transition of Chessboard Tilings in a Honeycomb Liquid Crystal

William S. Fall, Constance Nürnberger, Xiangbing Zeng, Feng Liu, Stephen J. Kearney, Gillian A. Gehring, Carsten Tschierske ✉, Goran Ungar ✉

Mol. Syst. Des. Eng., 2019,4, 396-406

• Molecular Ejection Transition in Liquid Crystal Columns Self-Assembled from Wedge-Shaped Minidendrons

William S. Fall, Ming-Huei Yen, Xiangbing Zeng, Liliana Cseh, Yongsong Liu, Gillian A. Gehring, Goran Ungar ✉

Soft Matter, 2019,15, 22-29

Conference Proceedings

• Canonical Simulation Methodology to Extract Phase Boundaries of Liquid Crystalline Polymer Mixtures

William S. Fall, Hima Bindu Kolli, Biswaroop Mukherjee, Buddhapriya Chakrabarti ✉

Communicated 2021