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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“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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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
Entangled yet divided: A glass model of Schwarz’ Primitive surface
Back in 2001, a profound discussion was held in ANU’s beautiful Unihouse gardens about how useful a bicontinuous bottle, a bottle internally subdivided by a minimal surface into two domains, could be. One channel for each of your favourite drinks, or one for olive oil and one for vinegar. Read more
Making sense of a pear-shaped world (by Philipp Schönhöfer)
An animation of the Gyroid phase in (computational) assemblies of pear-shaped colloidal particles. Click here for the animation. This is an animation produced by Philipp Schönhöfer, as part of his postgraduate research
Animation of Gyroid from flying puzzle pieces (by Stuart Ramsden)
Here’s a lovely animation created by Stuart Ramsden (ANU) around the time when we were trying to commercialise a toy puzzle version of the Gyroid (which we had dubbed ‘InfiniTiles’). While the puzzle never really got off the ground (at least not yet, although we do have both an injection moulded and a 3D printed prototype), the animation is amazing. Read more
Gyroid chirality presentation at APS March Meeting
I am grateful to Greg Grason for organising a very interesting “Chirality in Polymers and Soft Matter” focus session at the APS March Meeting 2019. For those interested in my talk slides, I’ve uploaded them at the APS site, click here.
3D Print Gyroid in Tetradecahedral Shape
Models of the single and double gyroid, clipped within a 14-sided polyhedron.
MRS Bulletin on Biologically inspired far-from-equilibrium materials
