Front Page News! Copolymeric meltdown due to geometric frustration

Well done, Tobias Hain, for the publication of your first research paper. A lovely piece of simulation work, carried out together with Jacob Kirkensgaard, on geometric mechanisms at play when copolymers self-organise on a spherical substrate. Not only did the pretty pictures tickle the interest of Softmatter’s front page department, but the message resonated with a member of the public… Read more

Dirty Dancing in the Dark – facilitated by a nanostructure in a nocturnal moth?

In a project led by Jennifer Kelley (UWA) and Bodo Wilts (Fribourg), we’ve looked at a funky iridescence effect in a nocturnal moth, where a nanostructure facilitates an angle-dependent flicker that might (but we don’t know) be used by the insects for communication. What makes it somewhat special is the fact that the animal is nocturnal and that the effect happens on a part of the wing that is brown. Read more

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