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
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
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
Animation file: (Nature Comms Suppl Info page) Read more
Erpel is a finite-element code computing effective elastic properties of anisotropic multiphase media. It implements a conjugate-gradient scheme on cubic voxels and has been proven to scale to at 768³ voxels in a
MPI environment. Developed by Sebastian Kapfer, partially while spending some time in the Applied Maths group at the Australian National University.
Main page for information is Sebastian’s page, click here erpel page. (PDF of Erpel page).
This code was used in the following scientific journal publications Biomaterials 2011, Langmuir 2011, Adv Mater 2011
Code is at github: https://github.com/skapfer/erpel