We are a group of biophysicists, physicists and chemists at UCL. We study artificial and biological soft active matter. We are interested in its fundamental behaviours and its applications to healthcare and materials science. We are always looking for bright people to join us at any level. Get in touch!
Microscale Marangoni Surfers Kilian Dietrich, Nick Jaensson, Ivo Buttinoni, Giorgio Volpe & Lucio Isa Highlighted in Physics We apply laser light to induce the…
Continue reading → New Article Published in Physical Review Letters
We are moving to a bigger, better and newer lab. We will start packing our things on Monday the 17th of August. The move should…
Advances Towards Programmable Droplet Transport on Solid Surfaces and its Applications Robert Malinowski, Ivan Parkin & Giorgio Volpe Droplets moving on solid surfaces are at…
Continue reading → Our Review on Programmable Droplet Transport is out on Chemical Society Reviews
Robert Malinowski PhD Student (2015-2020) Robert completed his PhD in the dynamic control of evaporating droplets in the group (jointly supervised by Dr Volpe and…
Far-field Wavefront Control of Nonlinear Luminescence in Disordered Gold Metasurfaces Gauthier Roubaud, Pierre Bondareff, Giorgio Volpe, Sylvain Gigan, Sébastien Bidault & Samuel Grésillon We demonstrate…
Ordering of Binary Colloidal Crystals by Random Potentials André S. Nunes, Sabareesh K. P. Velu, Agnese Callegari, Mario Collada Dietrich, Jan Thiel, Giorgio Volpe, Margarida M.…
Sandrine’s project focuses on controlling the self-assembly of active colloids under external stimulus. Sandrine is co-supervised with Prof Phil Jones and is part of the…
Continue reading → Welcome to Sandrine, a new PhD student in the group
Perspective on light-induced transport of particles: from optical forces to phoretic motion Pavel Zemánek, Giorgio Volpe, Alexandr Jonáš & Oto Brzobohatý Propulsive effects of light, which…
Continue reading → Our Review on Phoretic Transport by Light is out
Zach is jointly supervised with Dr Schroeder at UCL. His project focuses on the self-assembly of organic semiconductors for printable electronics using the droplet manipulation technique that…
Continue reading → Welcome to Zach, a new PhD student in the group
