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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