Soft Matter and Biophysics research community
7 fully-funded PhD studentships in Biophysics (BiPAS CDT)
The Centre for Doctoral Training in Biological Physics Across Scales (BiPAS) at King’s College London (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/research/bipas-cdt ) is cu...
PhD Study of the mechanism/s of biological effects of low-power radiofrequency emissions
This project is part of RMIT University node under the Australian Centre for Electromagnetic Bioeffects Research (ACEBR), which is a Centre of Excellence funded...
PhD Study of marine microbiology and underwater diversity
This project is focused on studying the diversity of microorganisms living in the Mediterranean sea: fungi, bacterias and algae. Requirements: Master degree in ...
Postdoc position: Shape, shear, search mathematical models of bacteria
We are seeking a post-doctoral researcher to work on an EPSRC-funded project to develop an integrated mathematical model to explore the early stages of bacteria...
2 PhD projects in Soft Matter Physics: theory and experiment of self-assembling patchy virus rods (Paris & Bordeaux, France)
We are advertising 2 PhD projects in the Soft Matter groups of the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides (Orsay, France) and the Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (...
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High-Throughput 3D Visualization of Nanoparticles attached to the Surface of Red Blood Cells
Nanoscale, December (2018) André Dias, Marco Werner, Kevin Ward, Jean-Baptiste Fleury, Vladimir A. Baulin Blood circulation is the main distribution route for s...
Tension-Induced Translocation of Ultra-Short Carbon Nanotube through a Phospholipid Bilayer
ACS Nano, November (2018) Yachong Guo, Marco Werner, Ralf Seemann, Vladimir A Baulin, and Jean-Baptiste Fleury Increasing awareness of bioeffects and toxicity o...
Kinetic evolution of DOPC lipid bilayers exposed to α-cyclodextrins
Soft Matter, , (2018) Monika Kluzek, Marc Schmutz, Carlos M. Marques and Fabrice Thalmann Cyclodextrins are cyclic oligosaccharides capable of forming inclusion...
Bridging molecular simulation models and elastic theories for amphiphilic membranes
J. Chem. Phys., 149, 014902 (2018) Adrien Berthault, Marco Werner, Vladimir A. Baulin The Single Chain Mean Field theory is used to link coarse-grained models o...
High Aspect Ratio Nanostructures Kill Bacteria via Storage and Release of Mechanical Energy
ACS Nano, 114(9), 2165–2173 (2018) Denver P. Linklater, Michael De Volder, Vladimir A Baulin, Marco Werner, Sarah Jessl, Mehdi Golozar, Laura Maggini, Sergey Ru...
Soft matter news
- UK's research evaluation system pushes academics to churn out lower-quality research, new study shows
- Packing and emergence of the ordering of rods in a spherical monolayer
- Directly visualizing the cooperative adsorption of a string-like molecule onto a solid with double-stranded DNA
- Particles from everyday wall paints can harm living organisms, but a novel membrane shows high filtering effects
- Researchers boost sensitivity and speed of Raman microscopy technique
- Stretched skin cells divide without DNA replication
- Simulations on how a virus packages its genetic material could help design nanocontainers used in drug delivery
- New 3D atomistic imagery of SARS-CoV-2 shows how virus uses spike protein to fuse with and infect human cells
- Double locked: Polymer hydrogels secure confidential information
- Pioneering simulations focus on HIV-1 virus
- Researchers use magnetic systems to artificially reproduce the learning and forgetting functions of the brain
- Using chiral gold nanoparticles to enhance immune response
- Multivalued Inverse Design: Multiple Surface Geometries from One Flat Sheet
- Scientists explore the creation of artificial organelles
- Novel imaging method reveals a surprising arrangement of DNA in the cell's nucleus
- Nano 'camera' made using molecular glue allows real-time monitoring of chemical reactions