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Congratulations Dr Joe Lopes
active matter, Biomaterials, Biopolymers, featured, Soft Matter

Congratulations Dr Joe Lopes

November 22, 2016 Linda Hirst Leave a comment

Congratulations go to Dr Lopes – newest graduate from the Hirst Lab.

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Joe  works on kinesin – based  microtubule transport and active matter. He will be starting a postdoc in March at Brandeis University with Prof Guilliaume Duclos.

https://sites.google.com/site/ducloslab/

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Soft Matter and biophysics at the University of California, Merced

Recent Posts

  • Controlling Chaos: Periodic Defect Braiding in Active Nematics Confined to a Cardioid
  • Colloidal aggregation in liquid crystal
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  • Current Biology – Chitin in cartilaginous fishes

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  1. Professor Hirst is the author of “Fundamentals of Soft Matter Science”

    Fundamentals of Soft Matter Science introduces and explores the scientific study of soft matter and molecular self-assembly, covering the major classifications of materials, their structure and characteristics, and everyday applications.

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    Fundamentals of Soft Matter Science

    November 3, 2014 Linda Hirst Leave a comment
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Grandjean texture of the Cholesteric phase in a wedge cell
Granjean cholesteric texture
Quantum dot aggregates in the cholesteric phase – See our publication in “Photonics” http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6732/2/3/855
Polarized optical microscope image of a liquid crystal columnar phase
Molecular dynamics simulation of network of semiflexible filaments
Templating QDs at the Isotropic to nematic phase transition
Modeling topological defects on a lipid vesicle
Semi-flexible filament networks
Templating QDs at the Isotropic to nematic phase transition

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