Category: My Work

“In a Material World: Hyperbolic Geometry in Biological Materials”, by Myf Evans and myself, is a popular-science type essay on the sort of geometric questions that we see of relevance for soft matter physics, materials science, biology, etc. In particular, what’s the role of hyperbolic geometry and triply-periodic minimal surfaces, and what’s the geometric rationale why they form in soft matter self-assembly. Hopefully an entertaining read, with no claim to be comprehensive, and certainly not original research. Read more

The bicontinuous phases, composed of two interthreaded channels separated by a matrix domain have a firm place in soft matter self-assembly, from lipids to copolymers. This post high-lights some of our recent work that shows that more complicated geometries, with three rather than two channel domains, may also result from self-assembly. Read more