Physical properties

Synthesise organic semiconductor materials and investigate their physical properties. The postdoctoral research connects molecular design, organic chemistry and materials function.

This episode examines water’s unusual physical properties and research testing whether liquid water can be understood through two distinct structural states. It also explores efforts to identify research misconduct, including image manipulation and fabricated publications, and the tools and post-publication review practices used by independent investigators.

This seminar introduces the physical properties of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids and the scientific aims of NASA's Lucy mission. It reviews the mission's planned encounters as described at the time of the talk. It also discusses the 2023 discovery of a binary asteroid whose companion has a contact-binary structure.

…relativity and reviews their defining physical properties. The seminar then compares electromagnetic observations, including images near black-hole boundaries, with gravitational-wave measurements of their dynamics. Together, these approaches create new tests of relativistic gravity.

The dream of programmable matter is to create materials whose physical properties (shape, moduli, response to perturbations, etc.) can be changed on the fly. For many years, my group has been thinking about how to program flat sheets that fold up into three dimensional shapes, most recently by exploiting the principles of origami design. Unfortunately, a combinatorial explosion of folding pathways makes robust folding particularly challenging. In this talk, I will discuss how this pluripotency arises from the topology of the configuration space. This suggests a broader understanding of a large