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.
Our new paper investigating the noise signatures associated with passive adsorption of polymers in nanopores is now available on arXiv. Here we combine detailed analysis of ionic current traces, Quartz Crystal Microbalance measurements and simulations to explore how characteristic noise in the ionic current trace reflects passive adsorption of polymers to the pore surface.
In a very exciting week three new papers have now appeared online! In Science Advances, ‘Direct detection of molecular intermediates from first-passage times’ discusses a method to reveal details of energy landscapes from analysis of dynamic properties. Some exciting experimental collaborations with the Bayley group (University of Oxford) and Ritort group (University of Barcelona) and […]
Our new paper looking at the noise in rectifying and non-rectifying nanopores has just appeared online. Here, we studied the behaviour of conical glass nanopores as components in ionic circuits, showing that while net conduction is bulk dominated, the low frequency noise is surface dominated. Stuart F. Knowles, Ulrich F. Keyser and Alice L. Thorneywork, […]
Alice presented work on analysing first passage time distributions to uncover energy landscapes in talks at the 5th International Soft Matter Conference in Edinburgh (June 2019) and the ‘Transport Phenomena in Complex Environments’ conference in Erice, Sicily (September 2019).