How much can you learn about a system just by counting particles? We explore this question in our new paper on arxiv. Here, in a collaboration with Sophie Marbach (Sorbonne, Paris) and Brennan Sprinkle (Colorado School of Mines, USA) we combine experiments, simulation and theory to show have careful statistical analysis of number fluctuations can […]
We have had a busy and exciting few months as five new members have joined the team. In September, we welcomed Jessica Carder to the group as our new PDRA, alongside our Part II students Mohammed Ahmed, Lucas Ipkendanz and Jon Starkey. And in October, James Tett started his DPhil in the group. Read more […]
Huge congratulations to Anna for being awarded a prize for her poster presentation ‘Cation dependence of noise induced by polymers in nanopores‘ at the recent Faraday Discussions meeting on Iontronics in Edinburgh, UK.
Many congratulations to Anna for having her artistic image of our nanopore device featured as part of the Chemistry Departments photo competition. Read more here.
Big congratulations to Stuart for passing his PhD viva with (very) minor corrections. After two months helping to set up the lab in Oxford, Stuart will soon start a new job in London. We wish him all the best for the future!
From September 2022 the group will have a new home at the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford. We’re sad to leave so many friends and colleagues in Cambridge but excited for the adventures ahead!
Great to see some collaborative work with Jeffrey Mc Hugh finally published (also here on arXiv). Here, we describe a method to map flow fields outside nanopores in their full three-dimensional glory by exploiting optical tweezers and some neat particle tracking techniques.
Exciting news for the new year! Our group has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant! The project aims to investigate the origins of noise and fluctuations in soft systems driven out of equilibrium using a unique combination of state-of-the-art experimental model systems. These will exploit a huge range of techniques including colloids, microfluidics, optical tweezers, […]
Our recent ArXiv paper exploring how careful analysis of ionic current fluctuations can be used to probe polymer adsorption in nanopores has a new home in PRL! Super excited to see this appear as the result of a fantastic cross-disciplinary collaboration. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.137801
I’m absolutely delighted to be one of the 37 new University Research Fellows appointed by the Royal Society this year. This amazing award will support me in pursuing the exciting new experiments we are planning in the group, aiming to understand fundamental aspects of fluctuations and transport in soft matter systems.