20Jul 2022 by anna

Journal COVER in Advanced Functional Materials!

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Congratulations to Vahid Nasirimarekani for having his work featured on a cover of Advanced Functional Materials.The paper entitled: Tunable Superparamagnetic Ring (tSPRing) for Droplet Manipulation by Vahid Nasirimarekani, Fernando Benito-Lopez and Lourdes Basabe-Desmonts presents and characterizes experimentally the formation and properties of a tunable superparamagnetic ring (tSPRing), which precisely adjusts itself around a water droplet, due to liquid-liquid interaction, and enables the physical manipulation of droplets. The ring is made of an oil-based ferrofluid, a stable suspension of ferromagnetic particles in an oily phase. It appears spontaneously due to the oil-water interfacial interaction under the influence of a magnetic field.  The ferrofluid-water interaction resembles a cupcake assembly, with the surrounding ring only at the base of the droplet. The ring is analogous to a soft matter ring magnet, showing dipole…
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20Jul 2022 by anna

Back Cover in Journal of Materials Chemistry A

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Congratulations to ESR 1 Udara Bimendra Gunatilake for the  publication of an article, that obtained the Back Cover published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A showcasing research from the Microfluidics Cluster UPV/EHU, a group led by Profs. Fernando Benito-Lopez and Lourdes Basabe-Desmonts, University of the Basque Country, Spain.
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20Jul 2022 by anna

Reaching out to the Government to help tackle covid crisis

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Thanks to ESR 6 (Aigars Langins) interest in the mathematics of pandemic dynamics, including differential equations, and a mutual interest with an epidemiologist Ņikita Trojanskis, a recent graduate of the University of Cambridge, a data driven prediction of pandemic dynamics in Latvia was introduced, mostly developed by Ņikita and Aigars, and used by the Ministry of Health to argue on political decisions to be taken by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia.  This included a political decision of announcing a statewide lockdown of 3 weeks in Autumn 2021, which broke the Covid-19 Delta variant transmission and decreased the number of casualties and hospital overload. About this several media reports are given, including articles in Journal IR (https://ir.lv/2021/10/13/cik-laut-nomirt/ , https://ir.lv/2021/12/23/nikita-trojanskis-ir-divaina-krizes-komunikacija-no-valsts-puses/), an online meeting with the President of Latvia,…
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19Jul 2022 by anna

PhD defence of Raheel Ahmad

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Raheel Ahmad from MPI Gottingen has successfully defended the thesis "Integration of a Light-switchable ATP Regeneration System with Motility" on May 23, 2022 and received the degree of Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) on June 9, 2022. The defense went well and was done in the hybrid version. Committee members: 1) Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Dieter Schinzer (Chair) - Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg 2) Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Kai Sundmacher (Reviewer) - Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg 3) Prof. Dr. Seraphine V. Wegner (Reviewer) - University of Münster 4) Prof. Dr. Ghulam Destgeer (Reviewer) - Technical University of Munich
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