Condensed Matter journal club archive

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Date Title Speaker(s)
2019
14 Jun 2019 Designing Bijels Formed By Solvent Transfer Induced Phase Separation With Functional Nanoparticles R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • David French
31 May 2019 A Bacterium That Degrades and Assimilates Poly(Ethylene Terephthalate) R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Rosa Santomartino
17 May 2019 Boundaries Control Collective Dynamics of Inertial Self-Propelled Robots R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Emily Gould
10 May 2019 Assembling Responsive Microgels At Responsive Lipid Membranes R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • David Crosby
03 May 2019 Sparse Game Changers Restore Collective Motion in Panicked Human Crowds R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Eoin Ó Laighléis
05 Apr 2019 A Difficulty in the Concept of Social Welfare R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Graeme Ackland
29 Mar 2019 Rapid Bayesian Optimisation For Synthesis Of Short Polymer Fiber Materials R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Paul Clegg
22 Mar 2019 Stochastic Bacterial Population Dynamics Prevent The Emergence Of Antibiotic Resistance R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Rosalind Allen
08 Mar 2019 Extreme Slow Growth as Alternative Strategy to Survive Deep Starvation in Bacteria R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Adam Stevens
01 Mar 2019 Shaking alone, without concurrent aeration, affects the growth characteristics of Escherichia coli R Additional Resources are available for this event
22 Feb 2019 Collateral Sensitivity Constrains Resistance Evolution Of The CTX-M-15 β-lactamase R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Elin Lilja
15 Feb 2019 Magic Number Colloidal Clusters As Minimum Free Energy Structures R Additional Resources are available for this event
08 Feb 2019 Protocol Dependence and State Variables in the Force-Moment Ensemble R Additional Resources are available for this event
25 Jan 2019 First Passage under Restart with Branching R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Richard Blythe
11 Jan 2019 Droplets Capped With An Elastic Film Can Be Round, Elliptical, )r Nearly Square R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Iain Muntz
2018
07 Dec 2018 Entropically driven aggregation of bacteria by host polymers promotes antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Gavin Melaugh
30 Nov 2018 Density-Driven Flows in Evaporating Binary Liquid Droplets R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Lewis McHale
23 Nov 2018 Microtubule-Based Active Fluids with Improved Lifetime, Temporal Stability and Miscibility with Passive Soft Materials R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Alexander Morozov
16 Nov 2018 Arcsine Laws in Stochastic Thermodynamics R Additional Resources are available for this event
09 Nov 2018 Sticky Matters: Jamming and Rigid Cluster Statistics with Attractive Particle Interactions R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Yujie Jiang
02 Nov 2018 Self-Organized Resonance during Search of a Diverse Chemical Space R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Emil Mallmin
26 Oct 2018 Verticalization Of Bacterial Biofilms R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Bartlomiej Waclaw
19 Oct 2018 Arresting dissolution by interfacial rheology design R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Fernando Avino
12 Oct 2018 Bubble propagation on a rail: a concept for sorting bubbles by size R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • James Hitchen
05 Oct 2018 Full Phase Diagram of Active Brownian Disks: From Melting to Motility-Induced Phase Separation R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Martin Evans
29 Jun 2018 Mechanism Of Signal Propagation In Physarum Polycephalum R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Davide Marenduzzo
22 Jun 2018 Diversity, Stability, and Reproducibility in Stochastically Assembled Microbial Ecosystems R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Aidan Brown
01 Jun 2018 Pairwise frictional profile between particles determines discontinuous shear thickening transition in non-colloidal suspensions R Additional Resources are available for this event
25 May 2018 Membrane Sculpting By Curved DNA Origami Scaffolds R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Sophie Ayscough
18 May 2018 Membrane sculpting by curved DNA origami scaffolds R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Sophie Ayscough
04 May 2018 Effect of Oil Hydrophobicity on the Adsorption and Rheology of β-Lactoglobulin at Oil–Water Interfaces R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Rudi Mears
27 Apr 2018 Automated monitoring of behavior reveals bursty interaction patterns and rapid spreading dynamics in honeybee social networks R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Chris Brackley
20 Apr 2018 Biomimetic Isotropic Nanostructures for Structural Coloration R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • David Crosby
13 Apr 2018 Fractal Free Energy Landscapes In Structural Glasses R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Peter Mottishaw
23 Mar 2018 Theory for Transitions Between Exponential and Stationary Phases: Universal Laws for Lag Time R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Martin Carballo Pacheco
09 Mar 2018 Additive scaling law for structural organization of chromatin in chicken erythrocyte nuclei R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Simon Titmuss
02 Mar 2018 Fractal free energy landscapes in structural glasses R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Peter Mottishaw
23 Feb 2018 Physics of Beer R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Anne Pawsey
16 Feb 2018 Architectural Transitions in Vibrio Cholerae Biofilms At Single-Cell Resolution R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Ellen Young
09 Feb 2018 Microfluidic Tensiometry Technique for the Characterization of the Interfacial Tension between Immiscible Liquids R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Keith Bromley
02 Feb 2018 Magnetic Assembly Of Transparent And Conducting Graphene-Based Functional Composites R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Emily Gould
26 Jan 2018 Soft Network Materials With Isotropic Negative Poisson's Ratios Over Large Strains R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Ed Muir
2017
15 Dec 2017 Measuring Contact Angles of Small Spherical Particles at Planar Fluid Interfaces by Light Extinction R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Iain Muntz
08 Dec 2017 Giant Kovacs-Like Memory Effect for Active Particles R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Richard Blythe
01 Dec 2017 An integrated design and fabrication strategy for entirely soft, autonomous robots R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Daniel Taylor
24 Nov 2017 Who aspires to a science career? A comparison of survey responses from primary and secondary school students R Additional Resources are available for this event
17 Nov 2017 Experimental realization of the “lock-and-key” mechanism in liquid crystals R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Navneeta Katyan (School of Physics, Edinburgh University)
10 Nov 2017 Intrinsic functional connectivity reduces after first-time exposure to short-term gravitational alterations induced by parabolic flight R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Rosie Cane
03 Nov 2017 Popsicle-Stick Cobra Wave R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Eoin Ó Laighléis
20 Oct 2017 Density Functional Theory Is Straying From The Path Toward The Exact Functional R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Miguel Martinez-Canales
06 Oct 2017 Mechanics of Fire Ant Aggregations R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Samuel Griffiths
29 Sep 2017 Quantifying Hidden Order Out Of Equilibrium R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Wilson Poon
30 Jun 2017 Observation of the Wigner-Huntington Transition to Metallic Hydrogen R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Graeme Ackland
23 Jun 2017 Progressive approach to eruption at Campi Flegrei caldera in Southern Italy R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Teun Vissers
16 Jun 2017 Measuring the porosity and compressibility of liquid-suspended porous particles using ultrasound
  • John Royer
09 Jun 2017 An identification of the soft polyelectrolyte gel-like layer on silica colloids using atomic force and electron microscopy R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Andrew Schofield
02 Jun 2017 Self-Assembled Micro-Organogels For 3D Printing Silicone Structures R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Andrew Matheson
19 May 2017 Coupling between distant biofilms and emergence of nutrient time R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Ryan Morris
07 Apr 2017 Evaluation of the Resistance of Chroococcidiopsis spp. to Sparsely and Densely Ionizing Irradiation R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Jennifer Wadsworth
31 Mar 2017 Microstructural tunability of co-continuous bijel-derived electrodes to provide high energy and power densities R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • David French
24 Mar 2017 Coarse-Grained Simulations Of Bacterial Cell Wall Growth Reveal That Local Coordination Alone Can Be Sufficient To Maintain Rod Shape R Additional Resources are available for this event
17 Mar 2017 Long-wavelength fluctuations and the glass transition in two dimensions and three dimensions R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Xuemao Zhou
03 Mar 2017 How do concrete rheology, tribology, flow rate and pipe radius influence pumping pressure? R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Rory O'Neill
24 Feb 2017 Large-Scale Patterns in a Minimal Cognitive Flocking Model: Incidental Leaders, Nematic Patterns, and Aggregates R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Ana Fialho
17 Feb 2017 Equation of state for random sphere packings with arbitrary adhesion and friction R Additional Resources are available for this event
10 Feb 2017 Nucleosomal Arrangement Affects Single-Molecule Transcription Dynamics R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Chris Brackley
03 Feb 2017 Penitentes as the origin of the bladed terrain of Tartarus Dorsa on Pluto R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Adam Stevens
27 Jan 2017 Emergent Collective Chemotaxis without Single-Cell Gradient Sensing
  • Juraj Szavits Nossan (Edinburgh School of Physics)
13 Jan 2017 Long-Lived Neighbors Determine the Rheological Response of Glasses R Additional Resources are available for this event
  • Aidan Brown
2016
16 Dec 2016 Contact Angle Distribution of Particles at Fluid Interfaces
  • Rudi Mears
09 Dec 2016 Directed evolution of cytochrome c for carbon-silicon bond formation: Bringing silicon to life
  • Claire Loudon
18 Nov 2016 Antipolar Ordering of Topological Defects in Active Liquid Crystals
  • Matthew Blow
11 Nov 2016 Instabilities and Solitons in Minimal Strips
  • Davide Michieletto
28 Oct 2016 How Far from Equilibrium Is Active Matter?
  • Martin Evans
21 Oct 2016 Tunable Shear Thickening in Suspensions
14 Oct 2016 Spatiotemporal Microbial Evolution on Antibiotic Landscapes
  • Gavin Melaugh
07 Oct 2016 Biomimetic 4D Printing
  • Paul Clegg
24 Jun 2016 A non-equilibrium state diagram for liquid/fluid/particle mixtures
  • Tao Li
10 Jun 2016 Running and tumbling with <i>E. coli</i> in polymeric solutions
  • Vincent Martinez
27 May 2016 Loss of lamin A function increases chromatin dynamics in the nuclear interior
  • Davide Marenduzzo
20 May 2016 Energy landscapes of a mechanical prion and their implications for the molecular mechanism of long-term memory
  • Marieke Schor
13 May 2016 Cell Nuclei Have Lower Refractive Index And Mass Density Than Cytoplasm
  • Jochen Arlt
06 May 2016 Direct Observation of Dynamic Shear Jamming in Dense Suspensions
  • Michiel Hermes
29 Apr 2016 Diffusion of Ellipsoids in Bacterial Suspensions
  • Nick Koumakis
22 Apr 2016 A Microfluidic System for Studying Ageing and Dynamic Single-Cell Responses in Budding Yeast
  • Daniel Taylor
15 Apr 2016 The Effect of Lipopolysaccharide Core Oligosaccharide Size on the Electrostatic Binding of Antimicrobial Proteins to Models of the Gram Negative Bacterial Outer Membrane
  • Laura McKinley
08 Apr 2016 Rheological behavior of vibrated bimodal granular suspensions: a free volume approach
  • Elena Blanco
18 Mar 2016 Spatio-temporal assembly of functional mineral scaffolds within microbial biofilms
  • Susana Direito
11 Mar 2016 Generating Soap Bubbles by Blowing on Soap Films
  • Laura Sawiak
04 Mar 2016 Self-Sustained Density Oscillations of Swimming Bacteria Confined in Microchambers
  • Clemence Devailly
26 Feb 2016 Two bent-shaped p-organogelators: synthesis, fluorescence, self-assembly and detection of volatile acid vapours in gel films and in gel-gel states
  • Andrew Matheson
19 Feb 2016 Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
  • Richard Blythe
12 Feb 2016 Liquid-Solid Nanofriction and Interfacial Wetting
  • Iva Manasi
05 Feb 2016 A Programmable Dual-RNA-Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity
  • Delma Childers
29 Jan 2016 How Faceted Liquid Droplets Grow Tails
22 Jan 2016 Liquid plasticine: controlled deformation and recovery of droplets with interfacial nanoparticle jamming
  • Katy Dickinson
15 Jan 2016 Boundaries Can Steer Active Janus Spheres
  • Joost de Graaf
2015
11 Dec 2015 Live-Cell Superresolution Microscopy Reveals The Organization Of RNA Polymerase In The Bacterial Nucleoid
  • Chris Brackley
27 Nov 2015 Stabilization of Pickering Emulsions with Oppositely Charged Latex Particles: Influence of Various Parameters and Particle Arrangement around Droplets
  • David French
13 Nov 2015 Probing Colloidal Gels at Multiple Length Scales: The Role of Hydrodynamics
  • Xuemao Zhou
06 Nov 2015 Detecting Nanoscale Vibrations As Signature Of Life
  • Hanna Landenmark
30 Oct 2015 Cooling particle-coated bubbles: destabilization beyond dissolution arrest
  • Anne Pawsey
23 Oct 2015 Thermal Equilibrium of a Macroscopic Quantum System in a Pure State
  • Alexander Slowman
16 Oct 2015 Fast-Moving Bacteria Self-Organize into Active Two-Dimensional Crystals of Rotating Cells
  • Teun Vissers
09 Oct 2015 The heat released during catalytic turnover enhances the diffusion of an enzyme
  • Aidan Brown
26 Jun 2015 Trapping and assembly of living colloids at water-water interfaces
05 Jun 2015 Interactions and Stress Relaxation in Monolayers of Soft Nanoparticles at Fluid-Fluid Interfaces
  • Simon Titmuss
29 May 2015 Statistical Mechanics where Newton's Third Law is Broken
  • Benno Liebchen
22 May 2015 From Cell Differentiation to Cell Collectives: <i>Bacillus subtilis</i> Uses Division of Labor to Migrate
  • Dario Dell'Arciprete
15 May 2015 Quorum sensing triggers the stochastic escape of individual cells from <i>Pseudomonas putida</i> biofilms
  • Diarmuid Lloyd
08 May 2015 Dynamics of a <i>Volvox</i> Embryo Turning Itself Inside Out
  • Matthew Blow
01 May 2015 Non-aqueous Isorefractive Pickering Emulsions
  • Matthew Reeves
24 Apr 2015 Ongoing hydrothermal activities within Enceladus
  • Mark Fox-Powell
17 Apr 2015 Brownian Dynamics: From Glassy To Trivial
  • Mike Cates
27 Mar 2015 Robust self-cleaning surfaces that function when exposed to either air or oil
  • Keith Bromley
20 Mar 2015 Ancient Sedimentary Structures in the < 3.7 Ga Gillespie Lake Member, Mars, That Resemble Macroscopic Morphology, Spatial Associations, and Temporal Succession in Terrestrial Microbialites
  • Samuel Payler
13 Mar 2015 Granular impact cratering by liquid drops: Understanding raindrop imprints through an analogy to asteroid strikes
  • Giovanni Brandani
06 Mar 2015 Multifarious assembly mixtures: Systems allowing retrieval of diverse stored structures
  • Davide Marenduzzo
27 Feb 2015 Swim Pressure: Stress Generation in Active Matter
  • Tom Ives
13 Feb 2015 Charging of Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) Colloids in Cyclohexyl Bromide: Locking, Size Dependence, and Particle Mixtures
  • Andrew Schofield
06 Feb 2015 The Origin of Membrane Bioenergetics
  • Toby Samuels
30 Jan 2015 Personal Thermal Management by Metallic Nanowire-Coated Textile
  • Tao Li
23 Jan 2015 A Habitable Fluvio-Lacustrine Environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars
  • Petra Schwendner
16 Jan 2015 Real-time monitoring of quorum sensing in 3D-printed bacterial aggregates using scanning electrochemical microscopy
  • Gavin Melaugh
2014
19 Dec 2014 Emerging predictable features of replicated biological invasion fronts
  • Bartlomiej Waclaw
12 Dec 2014 A latent capacity for evolutionary innovation through exaptation in metabolic systems
  • Steven Court
05 Dec 2014 DNA supercoiling: A regulatory signal for the λ repressor
28 Nov 2014 Scaling laws governing stochastic growth and division of single bacterial cells
  • Juraj Szavits Nossan
14 Nov 2014 Life cycles, fitness decoupling and the evolution of multicellularity
  • Timothy Bush
07 Nov 2014 Soft Colloidal Scaffolds Capable of Elastic Recovery after Large Compressive Strains
24 Oct 2014 Membrane Binding of MinE Allows for a Comprehensive Description of Min-Protein Pattern Formation
  • Chay Paterson
17 Oct 2014 Mechanical and Microscopic Properties of the Reversible Plastic Regime in a 2D Jammed Material
  • Simon Weir
10 Oct 2014 Tangling of Tethered Swimmers: Interactions between Two Nematodes
  • Aidan Brown
03 Oct 2014 Impact-activated solidification of dense suspensions via dynamic jamming fronts
  • Job Thijssen
27 Jun 2014 Ciliary contact interactions dominate surface scattering of swimming eukaryotes
  • Jochen Arlt
13 Jun 2014 Chiral symmetry breaking and surface faceting in chromonic liquid crystal droplets with giant elastic anisotropy
  • Anne Pawsey
06 Jun 2014 Studying bacterial hydrophobicity and biofilm formation at liquid-liquid interfaces through interfacial rheology and pendant drop tensiometry
  • Dana Vladescu
30 May 2014 Predictive Polymer Modeling Reveals Coupled Fluctuations in Chromosome Conformation and Transcription
  • Chris Brackley
23 May 2014 Transport Powered by Bacterial Turbulence
  • Aidan Brown
16 May 2014 Emergent Collective Phenomena in a Mixture of Hard Shapes through Active Rotation
  • Joakim Stenhammar
09 May 2014 Is the Voter Model a Model for Voters
  • Richard Blythe
02 May 2014 Bending forces plastically deform growing bacterial cell walls
  • Joe Forth
11 Apr 2014 Shapes of a Suspended Curly Hair
  • Alexander McVey
04 Apr 2014 Janus-Like Pickering Emulsions And Their Controllable Coalescence
  • Dongyu Cai
28 Mar 2014 Possible Implications For Science And Engineering In Scotland In The Independecne Debate
  • Alexander McVey
14 Mar 2014 The sudden collapse of pollinator communities
  • Catherine Mills
07 Mar 2014 Relationship between surface hydrophobicity and water bounces - a dynamic method for accessing surface hydrophobicity
  • Daniel Hodgson
21 Feb 2014 Competition-Induced Criticality in a Model of Meme Popularity
  • Justin Whitehouse
14 Feb 2014 Turbulence drives microscale patches of motile phytoplankton
  • Toby Searle
07 Feb 2014 Understanding the Surface Potential of Water
  • Flaviu Cipcigan
31 Jan 2014 Bacterial Natural Transformation By Highly Fragmented And Damaged DNA
  • Casey Bryce
24 Jan 2014 Targeted delivery of colloids by swimming bacteria
  • Michiel Hermes
17 Jan 2014 Confocal Raman Spectroscopy of Whole Hairs
  • Benjamin Little
10 Jan 2014 Fifty Years To Prove Malthus Right
  • Graeme Ackland
2013
13 Dec 2013 Cooperativity and the Freezing of Molecular Motion at the Glass Transition
  • Martin Evans
06 Dec 2013 Geometric Friction Directs Cell Migration
  • Elliot Marsden
29 Nov 2013 Phase separation dynamics in colloid-polymer mixtures: the effect of interaction range
  • Matthew Reeves
22 Nov 2013 Periodic Migration in a Physical Model of Cells on Micropatterns
  • Giovanni Brandani
15 Nov 2013 Emergence of macroscopic directed motion in populations of motile colloids
  • Alexander Morozov
08 Nov 2013 Helical Colloidal Sphere Structures through Thermo-Reversible Co-Assembly with Molecular Microtubes
  • Niek Hijnen
01 Nov 2013 Stabilizing Liquid Drops in Nonequilibrium Shapes by the Interfacial Jamming of Nanoparticles
25 Oct 2013 Structural and molecular interrogation of intact biological systems
  • Jakub Pastuszak
18 Oct 2013 Shape Alloys of Nanorods and Nanospheres from Self-Assembly
  • Tao Li
11 Oct 2013 Direct Measurement of the Free Energy of Aging Hard Sphere Colloidal Glasses
  • Andrew Schofield
04 Oct 2013 Microscopic Mechanism for Shear Thickening of Non-Brownian Suspensions
  • Mike Cates
28 Jun 2013 To be confirmed
  • Wilson Poon
21 Jun 2013 A Brain-to-Brain Interface for Real-Time Sharing of Sensorimotor Information
  • Nico Kronberg
07 Jun 2013 Reversible dioxygen binding in solvent-free liquid myoglobin
  • Keith Bromley
31 May 2013 Residual Stresses in Glasses
  • Michiel Hermes
24 May 2013 Speeding up of Sedimentation under Confinement
  • Juho Lintuvuori
17 May 2013 Growth of non-phototrophic microorganisms using solar energy through mineral photocatalysis
  • Charles Cockell
10 May 2013 Effects of Particle Shape on Growth Dynamics at Edges of Evaporating Drops of Colloidal Suspensions
  • Dario Dell'Arciprete
03 May 2013 Unified study of glass and jamming rheology in soft particle systems
19 Apr 2013 No journal club due to conference commitment
12 Apr 2013 Collective Motion of Moshers at Heavy Metal Concerts
  • Richard Blythe
05 Apr 2013 'Blue Energy' From Ion Adsorption And Electrode Charging In Sea And River Water
  • Job Thijssen
22 Mar 2013 Relating Creamy Perception of Whey Protein Enriched Yogurt Systems to Instrumental Data by Means of Multivariate Data Analysis
  • Simon Weir
15 Mar 2013 Spontaneous motion in hierarchically assembled active matter
  • Dana Vladescu
01 Mar 2013 Confined Active Nematic Flow in Cylindrical Capillaries
  • Adriano Tiribocchi
22 Feb 2013 Adaptation to a new environment allows cooperators to purge cheaters stochastically
  • Fred Farrell
15 Feb 2013 How To Capture Active Particles
  • Joakim Stenhammar
08 Feb 2013 Human Time-Frequency Acuity Beats the Fourier Uncertainty Principle
  • Tom Underwood
01 Feb 2013 Molecular Vibration-Sensing Component in Human Olfaction
  • Jay Gillam
25 Jan 2013 Theoretical and Experimental Dissection of DNA Loop-Mediated Repression
  • Chris Brackley
18 Jan 2013 A canonical stability-elasticity relationship verified for one million face-centred-cubic structures
  • Bengt Tegner
11 Jan 2013 Filamentous bacteria transport electrons over centimetre distances
  • Timothy Bush
2012
14 Dec 2012 The Weakening Relationship Between the Impact Factor and Papers' Citations in the Digital Age
  • Kym Eden-Jones
07 Dec 2012 Science faculty's subtle gender biases favor male students
  • Joe Forth
30 Nov 2012 A Rule-based Model of a Hypothetical Zombie Outbreak: Insights on the role of emotional factors during behavioral adaptation of an artificial population
  • Justin Whitehouse
23 Nov 2012 Potential methane reservoirs beneath Antarctica
  • Sophie Nixon
16 Nov 2012 Optical Conveyors: A Class of Active Tractor Beams
  • Alexander McVey
09 Nov 2012 Topological Interaction by Entangled DNA Loops
  • Siobhan Liddle
02 Nov 2012 Water-Driven Micromotors
  • Aidan Brown
26 Oct 2012 Bacterial Thermotaxis by Speed Modulation
  • Jochen Arlt
19 Oct 2012 Heavy use of equations impedes communication among biologists
  • Anne Pawsey
12 Oct 2012 A microfluidic method to study demulsification kinetics
  • David French
05 Oct 2012 Physical manipulation of the Escherichia coli chromosome reveals its soft nature
  • Davide Marenduzzo
06 Jul 2012 Three-Dimensional Structures of Membrane Proteins from Genomic Sequencing
  • Ulrich Zachariae
22 Jun 2012 Polyhedral colloidal 'rocks': low-dimensional networks
  • Andrew Schofield
15 Jun 2012 Fluid Elasticity Can Enable Propulsion at Low Reynolds Number
  • Alexander Morozov
25 May 2012 Live-cell delamination counterbalances epithelial growth to limit tissue overcrowding
  • Philip Greulich
18 May 2012 The energy-speed-accuracy trade-off in sensory adaptation
  • Steven Court
11 May 2012 Distinct Growth Strategies of Soil Bacteria as Revealed by Large-Scale Colony Tracking
  • Rosalind Allen
04 May 2012 Reducing the Gender Achievement Gap in College Science: A Classroom Study of Values Affirmation
  • Cait MacPhee
27 Apr 2012 Skating on a Film of Air: Drops Impacting on a Surface
  • Tom Lion (University of Edinburgh)
20 Apr 2012 Conformation Types of Ubiquitin [M+8H]<sup>8+</sup> Ions from Water:Methanol Solutions: Evidence for the N and A States in Aqueous Solution
  • Jason Kalapothakis
13 Apr 2012 Spontaneous segregation of self-propelled particles with different motilities
  • Mike Cates
30 Mar 2012 To be confirmed
  • Ulrich Zachariae
16 Mar 2012 Improvement of pedestrian flow by slow rhythm
  • Kym Eden-Jones
09 Mar 2012 Dynamics of Social Group Competition: Modeling the Decline of Religious Affiliation
  • Dominic Russell
02 Mar 2012 Cooperative Rearrangement Regions and Dynamical Heterogeneities in Colloidal Glasses with Attractive Versus Repulsive Interactions
  • Vincent Martinez
24 Feb 2012 Diffusive-to-ballistic transition in grain boundary motion studied by atomistic simulations
  • Elsen Tjhung
10 Feb 2012 Sedimentation and Effective Temperature of Active Colloidal Suspensions
  • Rim Harich
03 Feb 2012 Directional persistence of chemotactic bacteria in a traveling concentration wave
  • Diarmuid Lloyd
27 Jan 2012 Capillary Forces in Suspension Rheology
  • Wilson Poon
20 Jan 2012 Force-free swimming of a model helical flagellum in viscoelastic fluids
  • Giulia Foffano
13 Jan 2012 Physical ageing of the contact line on colloidal particles at liquid interfaces
  • Michiel Hermes
2011
16 Dec 2011 Imaging the Microscopic Structure of Shear Thinning and Thickening Colloidal Suspensions
  • Tiffany Wood
09 Dec 2011 On the origin of large interstitial clusters in displacement cascades
  • Graham Galloway
02 Dec 2011 The Network of Global Corporate Control
  • Fred Farrell
25 Nov 2011 Stability of the Bulk Phase of Layered ZnO
  • Linggang Zhu
18 Nov 2011 Suppression of the coffee-ring effect by shape-dependent capillary interactions
  • Niek Hijnen
11 Nov 2011 Ecosystems with Mutually Exclusive Interactions Self-Organize to a State of High Diversity
  • Martin Evans
04 Nov 2011 To be confirmed
  • Wilson Poon
28 Oct 2011 Endotoxin-Induced Structural Transformations in Liquid Crystalline Droplets
  • Juho Lintuvuori
21 Oct 2011 The population dynamics of bacteria in physically structured habitats and the adaptive virtue of random motility
  • Alys Jepson
14 Oct 2011 Optimal concentrations in nectar feeding
  • Mathias Reufer (University of Edinburgh)
07 Oct 2011 A possible statistical mechanism of anomalous neutrino velocity in OPERA experiment?
  • Bartlomiej Waclaw
30 Sep 2011 Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam
  • Graeme Ackland
24 Jun 2011 Hidden Randomness between Fitness Landscapes Limits Reverse Evolution
  • Wilson Poon
17 Jun 2011 Structure Formation In Active Networks
  • Ryan Philips (University of Edinburgh)
20 May 2011 Structural diversity of dimers of the Alzheimer amyloid-Beta (25-35) peptide and polymorphism of the resulting fibrils
  • Massimiliano Porrini
13 May 2011 Real-time attack on single Escherichia coli cells by the human antimicrobial peptide LL-37
  • Jana Schwarz-Linek
06 May 2011 Colloidal diffusion inside a spherical cell
  • Andrew Schofield
15 Apr 2011 Directed self-assembly of a colloidal kagome lattice
  • Chantal Valeriani
08 Apr 2011 The origin of bursts and heavy tails in human dynamics
  • Robert Concannon
01 Apr 2011 To be confirmed
  • Craig Gregor
25 Mar 2011 Cinema, Fermi Problems, & General Education
  • Juan Venegas-Ortiz
18 Mar 2011 To be confirmed
  • Jochen Arlt
11 Mar 2011 Force-Velocity Measurements of a Few Growing Actin Filaments
  • Joe Tavacoli
04 Mar 2011 Universal statistical properties of poker tournaments
  • Philip Greulich
25 Feb 2011 Salt-Dependent DNA-DNA Spacings in Intact Bacteriophage Lambda Reflect Relative Importance of DNA Self-Repulsion and Bending Energies
  • Simon Titmuss
18 Feb 2011 Relativity and the Lead-Acid Battery
  • Job Thijssen
11 Feb 2011 Comparative Hydrodynamics of Bacterial Polymorphism
  • Alexander Morozov
04 Feb 2011 Direct Measurement of Molecular Mobility in Actively Deformed Polymer Glasses
  • Mike Cates
28 Jan 2011 The Hamaker constant of anatase aqueous suspensions
  • Alastair Mailer
14 Jan 2011 Sources and Sinks: A Stochastic Model of Evolution in Heterogeneous Environments
  • Richard Blythe
2010
17 Dec 2010 Undulation instabilities in the meniscus of smectic membranes
  • Paul Clegg
10 Dec 2010 Simple Theory of Protein Folding Kinetics
  • Katrin Wolff
03 Dec 2010 Evolutionary Game Theory in Growing Populations
  • Dominic Russell
26 Nov 2010 A spacetime cloak, or a history editor
  • Kym Eden-Jones
19 Nov 2010 Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Composite Nanochannels as Nanopumps Driven by Symmetric Temperature Gradients
  • Tom Lion (University of Edinburgh)
12 Nov 2010 Enhanced diffusion due to active swimmers at solid surfaces
  • Vincent Martinez
05 Nov 2010 (1) Centrifugal compression of soft particle packings: Theory and experiment. (2) Microfluidic Rheology of Soft Colloids above and below Jamming
  • Gijs Katgert
29 Oct 2010 Dislocation processes in the deformation of nanocrystalline aluminium by molecular-dynamics simulation
  • Con Healy
22 Oct 2010 To be confirmed
  • Vincent Martinez
15 Oct 2010 Crystalline Phases of Polydisperse Spheres
  • Siobhan Liddle
15 Oct 2010 Nanoparticle-induced widening of the temperature range of liquid-crystalline blue phases
  • Anne Pawsey
01 Oct 2010 vibrations and stabilization of the beta phase in Ni-Ti shape-memory alloy
  • Bengt Tegner
24 Sep 2010 Crystallization of Deformable Spherical Colloids
  • Job Thijssen
09 Jul 2010 Chemoresponsive assemblies of microparticles at liquid crystalline interfaces
  • Juho Lintuvuori
25 Jun 2010 Second Order Catalytic Quasispecies Yields Discontinuous Mean Fitness at Error Threshold
  • Bartlomiej Waclaw
18 Jun 2010 Localized soft modes and the supercooled liquid's irreversible passage through its configuration space
  • Eduardo Sanz
11 Jun 2010 Compositional ripening of particle- and surfactant-stabilised emulsions: a comparison
  • Job Thijssen
04 Jun 2010 Quasi-two-dimensional diffusion of single ellipsoids: aspect ratio and confinement effects
  • Mathias Reufer (University of Edinburgh)
28 May 2010 Dynamic jamming point for shear thickening suspensions
  • Gijs Katgert
21 May 2010 Arrested phase separation of colloidal rod-sphere mixtures
  • Joe Tavacoli
14 May 2010 Large-Scale Collective Properties of Self-Propelled Rods
  • Martin Evans
07 May 2010 A bacterial ratchet motor<br><br> Swimming bacteria power microscopic gears
  • Julien Tailleur
16 Apr 2010 Nanoconfinement controls stiffness, strength and mechanical toughness of beta-sheet crystals in silk
  • Bengt Tegner
26 Mar 2010 Soft colloids make strong glasses
  • Andrew Schofield
19 Mar 2010 Accumulation of Microswimmers near a Surface Mediated by Collision and Rotational Brownian Motion
  • Laurence Wilson
05 Mar 2010 Magneto-Optical Biosensing Platform Based on Light Scattering from Self-Assembled Chains of Functionalized Rotating Magnetic Beads
  • Alastair Mailer
19 Feb 2010 Flow visualization and flow cytometry with holographic video microscopy
  • Jochen Arlt
05 Feb 2010 Delocalization transition for the Google matrix
  • Arno Proeme
29 Jan 2010 Supersonic Air Flow due to Solid-Liquid Impact
  • Alasdair Thompson
22 Jan 2010 Equivalence of Glass Transition and Colloidal Glass Transition in the Hard-Sphere Limit
  • Richard Blythe
2009
04 Dec 2009 Chiral colloidal clusters
  • Chantal Valeriani
06 Nov 2009 Yield Stress and Shear Banding in Granular Suspensions
  • Rut Besseling
30 Oct 2009 Crystal Nucleation in a Supercooled Liquid with Glassy Dynamics
  • Eduardo Sanz
16 Oct 2009 Statistical mechanics and hydrodynamics of bacterial suspensions
  • Davide Marenduzzo
09 Oct 2009 Osmotic Propulsion: The Osmotic Motor
  • Tiffany Wood
02 Oct 2009 Characterization of Hydrodynamic Surface Interactions of Escherichia coli Cell Bodies in Shear Flow
  • Laurence Wilson
19 Jun 2009 To be confirmed
  • Richard Blythe
12 Jun 2009 To be confirmed
  • Nhan Pham
05 Jun 2009 To be confirmed
  • Davide Marenduzzo
29 May 2009 To be confirmed
  • Paolo Visco (University of Edinburgh)
22 May 2009 To be confirmed
  • Oliver Henrich
15 May 2009 To be confirmed
  • Jochen Arlt
08 May 2009 To be confirmed
  • Cait MacPhee
24 Apr 2009 To be confirmed
  • Alexander Morozov
03 Apr 2009 To be confirmed
  • Andrew Harrison
27 Mar 2009 Extinction of an infectious disease: A large fluctuation in a nonequilibrium system
  • Alasdair Thompson
13 Mar 2009 Microrheology of a sticking transition
  • Wilson Poon
06 Mar 2009 Biodegradable luminescent porous silicon nanoparticles for in vivo applications <br><br>Cooperation and conflict in quorum-sensing bacterial populations
  • Chantal Valeriani
27 Feb 2009 To be confirmed
  • Laurence Wilson
20 Feb 2009 Larger Islands House More Bacterial Taxa
  • Jana Schwarz-Linek
13 Feb 2009 To be confirmed
  • Job Thijssen
06 Feb 2009 Simple Quantitative Model for the Reversible Association of DNA Coated Colloids
  • Eduardo Sanz
30 Jan 2009 Direct visualization of the real time swelling and collapse of a poly(methacrylic acid) brush using atomic force microscopy
  • Alastair Mailer
23 Jan 2009 A purple acidophilic di-ferric DNA ligase from Ferroplasma
  • Caroline Miles
09 Jan 2009 Rate Dependence and Role of Disorder in Linearly Sheared Two-Dimensional Foams
  • Rut Besseling
2008
05 Dec 2008 To be confirmed
  • Davide Marenduzzo
28 Nov 2008 Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string
  • Rupert Nash
14 Nov 2008 Unexpected Bipolar Flagellar Arrangements and Long-Range Flows Driven by Bacteria near Solid Boundaries
  • Laurence Wilson
07 Nov 2008 A Molecular Clutch Disables Flagella in the Bacillus subtilis Biofilm
  • Angela Dawson
31 Oct 2008 First-Principles Constitutive Equation for Suspension Rheology
  • Oliver Henrich
24 Oct 2008 Robust dynamic classes revealed by measuring the response function of a social system
  • Lawrence Mitchell
17 Oct 2008 Elastic Instabilities of Polymer Solutions in Cross-Channel Flow; Purely Elastic Flow Asymmetries
  • Alexander Morozov
03 Oct 2008 Asymmetric caging in soft colloidal mixtures
  • Job Thijssen
27 Jun 2008 Cooperativity, Sensitivity, and Noise in Biochemical Signaling
  • Martin Evans
20 Jun 2008 Differential Dynamic Microscopy: Probing Wave Vector Dependent Dynamics with a Microscope
  • Peter Pusey
13 Jun 2008 Statistically enhanced promiscuity of structurally correlated patterns
  • Chantal Valeriani
06 Jun 2008 A phase diagram for jammed matter
  • Paolo Visco (University of Edinburgh)
30 May 2008 Motility influences biofilm architecture in Escherichia coli
  • Jana Schwarz-Linek
23 May 2008 Tearing as a test for mechanical characterization of thin adhesive films
  • Julien Tailleur
16 May 2008 Diffusionless crystal growth from glass has precursor in equilibrium liquid
  • Eduardo Sanz
09 May 2008 Thermal convection and emergence of isolated vortices in soap bubbles
  • Lucio Isa (University of Edinburgh)
02 May 2008 Paleotemperature trend for Precambrian life inferred from resurrected proteins
  • Cait MacPhee
25 Apr 2008 Random organization in periodically driven systems
  • Mike Cates
18 Apr 2008 How the Venus flytrap snaps
  • Rupert Nash
11 Apr 2008 Universal nature of particle displacements close to glass and jamming transitions
  • Rut Besseling
04 Apr 2008 Amoebae anticipate periodic events
  • Laurence Wilson
28 Mar 2008 Coherent structures in monolayers of swimming particles
  • Davide Marenduzzo
14 Mar 2008 Importance of metastable states in the free energy landscapes of polypeptide chains
  • Rosalind Allen
07 Mar 2008 Morphological clues to wet granular pile stability
  • Kathryn White
29 Feb 2008 Magnetic monopoles in spin ice
  • Richard Blythe
22 Feb 2008 Three-dimensional super-resolution imaging by stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy
  • Job Thijssen
15 Feb 2008 Structural rearrangements that govern flow in colloidal glasses
  • Oliver Henrich
08 Feb 2008 Rotary protein motors
  • Ottavio Croze (University of Edinburgh)
01 Feb 2008 A single type of progenitor cell maintains the epidermis
  • Lawrence Mitchell
2007
30 Nov 2007 Two papers from the Department of Applied Physics at RMIT, Australia
  • Gary Bryant (University of Edinburgh)
23 Nov 2007 Metamaterial electromagnetic cloak at microwave frequencies
  • Oliver Henrich
16 Nov 2007 Two-dimensional nematic colloidal crystals self-assembled by topological defects
  • Tiffany Wood
09 Nov 2007 Chemotaxis of nonbiological colloidal rods
  • Rupert Nash
02 Nov 2007 Electrostatics at the oil-water interface, stability, and order in emulsions and colloids
  • Paul Clegg
26 Oct 2007 Self-assembly and cross-linking of bionanoparticles at liquid-liquid interfaces
  • Mike Cates
19 Oct 2007 Dynamical evolution of ecosystems
  • Amit Chattopadhyay (University of Edinburgh)
12 Oct 2007 Stochastic gene expression in fluctuating environments
  • Rosalind Allen
05 Oct 2007 Physical nature of bacterial cytoplasm
  • Wilson Poon
28 Sep 2007 Experimental and theoretical study of mitotic spindle orientation
  • Lawrence Mitchell
21 Sep 2007 Femtosecond time-delay X-ray holography
  • Job Thijssen
14 Sep 2007 Flows driven by flagella of multicellular organisms enhance long-range molecular transport
  • Davide Marenduzzo
07 Sep 2007 Self-motile colloidal particles: from directed propulsion to random walk
  • Kathryn White
31 Aug 2007 Chemotaxis in bacteria
  • Ottavio Croze (University of Edinburgh)
24 Aug 2007 Experimental free energy surface reconstruction from single-molecule force spectroscopy using Jarzynski's equality
  • Richard Blythe
17 Aug 2007 Measurement of effective temperatures in an aging colloidal glass
  • Laurence Wilson
22 Jun 2007 Soft lubrication
  • Alexander Morozov
15 Jun 2007 Hydra molecular network reaches criticality at the symmetry-breaking axis-defining moment
  • Rupert Nash
08 Jun 2007 Einstein relation generalized to nonequilibrium
  • Martin Evans
18 May 2007 Dissolution arrest and stability of armored bubbles
  • Mike Cates
11 May 2007 Propulsion of a molecular machine by asymmetric distribution of reaction products
  • Davide Marenduzzo
27 Apr 2007 Concentration dependence of the collective dynamics of swimming bacteria
  • Rut Besseling
30 Mar 2007 Optofluidic control using photothermal nanoparticles
  • Lucio Isa (University of Edinburgh)
23 Mar 2007 Sterol structure determines the separation of phases and the curvature of the liquid-ordered phase in model membranes
  • Zhijun Zhao (University of Edinburgh)
16 Mar 2007 Collective evolution and the genetic code
  • Richard Blythe
02 Mar 2007 Bistable bacterial growth rate in response to antibiotics with low membrane permeability
  • Rosalind Allen
23 Feb 2007 Quorum signal molecules as biosurfactants affecting swarming in Rhizobium etli
  • Wilson Poon
16 Feb 2007 Crossover from stretched to compressed exponential relaxations in a polymer-based sponge phase
  • Paul Clegg
09 Feb 2007 Nonequilibrium mechanics of active cytoskeletal networks
  • Laurence Wilson
02 Feb 2007 Escherichia coli swim on the right-hand side
  • Ottavio Croze (University of Edinburgh)
26 Jan 2007 An asymmetric model for water structure
  • Susie Allison (University of Edinburgh)
19 Jan 2007 Brownian motion near a liquid-like membrane
  • Danielle Van't Zand
12 Jan 2007 Shape selectivity in the assembly of lithographically designed colloidal particles
  • Kathryn White

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