Alan H Schoen: 1924-2023
Click here for an obituary in Physics today for the amazing scientist who gave the world the Gyroid!
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9th Conference on Statistical Mechanics of Soft Matter @ Murdoch
Murdoch University’s School of Mathematics, Statistics, Chemistry and Physics last week hosted the Conference on Statistical Mechanics of Soft Matter.
Read moreOpen letter in regards to the termination of Professor Manuel Graeber’s employment
Post-doctoral position and PhD Scholarship: Development and Nanooptics of butterfly nanostructures
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher and for a PhD student for an interdisciplinary research project addressing butterfly nanostructure development, insect biophotonics and gyroid nanooptics, and ultra- and in-vivo microscopy methods for the investigation of natural nanostructures.
Read more“The trouble with optimists is that they don’t do well in a pear‐shaped world.”
Lucy Kellaway’s quote is one way to look at Philipp Schönhöfer’s most recent paper on colloidal pear-shaped particles. Vincent Van Gogh’s quote “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together” is another…
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The butterfly of the year 2020 is …
Herr Dr Philipp Schönhöfer: Enlightened, at last.
Congratulations to Philipp Schönhöfer, now Dr Schönhöfer, for completing an excellent computational PhD thesis on the self-assembly of pear-shaped colloid particles, now fully published! Read more
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