Recent News

Max has made some pretty agarose gels with Nile Blue and Rhodamine B (pink) dyes for confocal microscopy.

Simona and Emma made a trip down to Diamond to collect RheoSAXS data on their transient gel systems. Thanks to Andy the beamline scientist who helped us set everything up.

Simona presented her work on tuning the mechanical properties of transient hydrogel systems using small and large amplitude shear rheology at the Nordic rheology conference 2023 in Aarhus.

Laura has joined us in the lab for 3 months from the University of La Sapienza in Rome. She is looking into soft matter cleaning for cultural heritage. We hope she has a great time researching in Glasgow.

Here is the sample she is working on: