Non-equilibrium and driven systems, transport processes and dynamics

Growth processes and formation of biophotonic nanostructures

• B.D. Wilts, P.L. Clode, N.H. Patel, G.E. Schröder-Turk, “Nature’s functional nanomaterials: Growth or self-assembly?“, MRS Bulletin 44(2) issue on ‘Bioinspired Far-From-Equilibrium Materials’, 106-112, February issue (2019)
• B.D. Wilts, B. Apeleo Zubiri, M.A. Klatt, B. Butz, M.G. Fischer, S.T. Kelly, E. Spiecker, U. Steiner, G.E. Schröder-Turk, “Butterfly gyroid nanostructures as a time-frozen glimpse of intracellular membrane development“, Sci. Adv. 3, e1603119 (2017)
  

Rheology of cellular foams through non-linear avalanches

• M.E. Evans, G.E. Schröder-Turk, A.M. Kraynik, “A geometric exploration of stress in deformed liquid foams“, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 29, 124004 (2017)
• M.E. Evans, A.M. Kraynik, D.A. Reinelt, K.  Mecke and G.E. Schröder-Turk, “Networklike Propagation of Cell-Level Stress in Sheared Random Foams“, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 138301 (2013)
  

Rheology and deformations of bicontinuous lipid/water systems

• A.P. Dabkowska, M. Valldeperas, C. Hirst, C. Montis, G.K. Palsson, M. Wang, S. Nöjd, L. Gentile, J. Barauskas, N-J. Steinke, G.E. Schröder-Turk, S. George, M. Skoda, T. Nylander, “Non-lamella lipid assembly at interfaces – controlling layer structure by responsive nanogel particles“,  Interface Focus 7(4), 20160150 (2017)
• G.E. Schröder-Turk, T. Varslot, L. de Campo, S.C. Kapfer and W. Mickel, “A bicontinuous lipid mesophase geometry with hexagonal symmetry”, Langmuir 27(17), 10475–10483 (2011)

Flow through ordered and disordered porous materials

• C. Scholz, F. Wirner, M. Klatt, D. Hirneise, G.E. Schröder-Turk, K. Mecke, C. Bechinger, “Direct Relations between Morphology and Transport in Boolean Models“, Physical Review E 92, 043023 (2015)
• C. Scholz, F. Wirner, J. Götz, U. Rüde, G.E. Schröder-Turk, K. Mecke and C. Bechinger, “Permeability of Porous Materials Determined from the Euler Characteristic”, Physical Review Letters 109, 264504 (2012)
• S.C. Kapfer, S.T. Hyde, K. Mecke, C.H. Arns, and G.E. Schröder-Turk, “Minimal surface scaffold designs for tissue engineering”, Biomaterials 32(29), 6875-6882 (2011)

Anomalous diffusion and Lorenz models

• M. Spanner, F. Höfling, S.C. Kapfer, K. Mecke, G.E. Schröder-Turk, and T. Franosch, “Splitting of the universality class of anomalous transport in crowded media”, Physical Review Letters 116, 060601 (2016)
• T. Franosch, M. Spanner, T. Bauer, G.E. Schröder-Turk, E. Frey, F. Höfling, “Space-resolved dynamics of a tracer in a disordered solid”, J. Non-Cryst. Solids 357, 472 (2011)

• M. Spanner, F. Höfling, G.E. Schröder-Turk, K. Mecke and Th. Franosch, “Anomalous transport of a tracer on percolating clusters”, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter. 23, 234120, (2010)

Driven granular systems and non-thermal statistical mechanics

• See “Physics of Disordered Materials and packing problems“
• The key granular system that we have been investigating are vibrated granular assemblies. These are not thermal systems (temperature-induced “Brownian motion” cannot move the particles). Rather, they are driven systems where, through shaking, energy is continuously injected into the system. While our work has largely used these dynamics as a way to adjusting packing fraction and structure, the core motivation of the broader field is the understanding of these non-thermal ensembles (One of the long-standing questions is whether an athermal Edwards ensemble can elucidate the behaviour of these systems, including with a useful notion of entropy).