Nano- and Biomaterial Physics
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Funded Projects
Collaboration with Nicola Allison (Environmental Science, U St Andrews) and Kirsty Penkman (Chemistry, U York)
EPSRC PhD Studentship: Mimicking and quantifying bone growth using X-ray spectroscopy and electron microscopy (2018-2021)
Collaboration with Julia Parker (Diamond Light Source)
Leverhulme Trust: The Control of Coral Biomineralisation (2016-2019)
Collaboration with Nicola Allison (Environmental Science, U St Andrews) and Kirsty Penkman (Chemistry, U York)
EPSRC Programme Grant Hard-Soft Matter Interfaces - Materials in Biology (2011-2016)
This is a major research collaboration set up in 2010 involving 7 Universities in the UK and Denmark as primary members and strong links to 5 Universities and 4 industrial partners in 5 countries. The purpose of the project is to understand the way the conjunction of hard and soft materials (e.g. membranes with calcite) in nature leads to materials with remarkable properties. In the long run, this will lead to the ability to design better biomaterials such as bone, to improve the efficiency with which oil can be extracted from chalk and sandstone deposits, and perhaps even to capture and store CO2 emissions as geological mineral deposits. Details of this project can be found here.
EU FP7 Grant SMILEY (2012-2016)
This is a consortium comprising collaborators from 5 countries and started at the end of 2012. SMILEY aims to develop and apply a "bottom-up" approach to build nano-structured devices with smart, multi-functional properties. To this aim, nature is used as the inspiration for the development of an ensemble of MIneralization ↔ self-Assembly ↔ self-Organization processes (termed MIAO), which will be controlled to first generate elementary nano-sized building blocks, and then to direct their assembly. Details of this project can be found here.
