Research Activity
The Soft Matter group conducts research in a wide range of pure and applied soft matter physics, as well as educating PhD students, mentoring junior researchers such as research fellows, and working with industry.
Please see the links to the left for details of who we are, what research we do, as well as potential projects for prospective PhD students.
Cells growing on surfaces with nanoscale protein patterns. The cells are shown in green at the top; the green lines are fluorescently stained green filaments in the cells, and the dark ovals are the cell nuclei. The nanoscale patterns on the surface are shown in the images at the bottom. This work was done by PhD students Dan Liu and Azura Che Abdullah. We found that the cells grew at higher cell densities on our self-asssembled, ring-like, fibronectin nanopatterns (left) than on a homogeneous fibronectin coating (right). Fibronectin is a protein that naturally surrounds our cells. For more details, see our paper.
