Our paper “Block Copolymer Nanocomposites under Confinement: Effect on Frustrated Phases” has been published in ACS journal Macromolecules (impact factor 6.057). The publication can be found here. The authors are Javier Diaz, […]
Our paper “Block Copolymer Nanocomposites under Confinement: Effect on Frustrated Phases” has been published in ACS journal Macromolecules (impact factor 6.057). The publication can be found here. The authors are Javier Diaz, […]
A new paper has been published presenting three dimensional simulations of block copolymer nanocomposites systems, making use of a new parallel code. This paper Diaz J, Pinna M, Zvelindovsky AV, Pagonabarraga I. […]
A new paper has been published as a collaboration with EPFL CECAM Prof Ignacio Pagonabarraga. The publication Diaz J, Pinna M, Zvelindovsky AV, Pagonabarraga I. Nonspherical Nanoparticles in Block Copolymer Composites: Nanosquares, […]
On the 11th of December 2019 Dayna Grimsham successfully passed her viva (subject to minor corrections) for the degree of Master of Science by Research with the thesis “Simulation and modelling of […]
On 19 September 2019 Javier Diaz defended his PhD thesis Computer Simulations of Block Copolymer Nanocomposite Systems in an oral viva. The viva examiners were Professor Allan D. Mackie (Universitat Rovira i […]
A new paper has been published in Soft Matter on mixtures of Janus nanoparticles and block copolymer melts: Co-assembly of Janus nanoparticles in block copolymer systems Javier Diaz, Marco Pinna, Andrei Zvelindovsky […]
On 4-8 March 2019 Javier attented the American Physical Society March Meeting in Boston, USA, where he delivered a talk Co-assembly of anisotropic colloids and diblock copolymer mixtures focusing on the recent […]
A paper has been accepted and published regarding the effect that nanoparticles have on the morphology of a diblock copolymer system. The paper appears in the journal Advanced Theory and Simulations 2018 […]
Back from helping Iain Bethune run the CP2K summer school in at the national lab in Daresbury. Also big help from Sanliang Ling and David Benoit. Over the summer solstice we could […]
Today, Fiona Bissett successfully passed her viva (subject to minor corrections) for the degree of Master of Science by Research with the thesis “Computational study of the self-assembly of hypoxanthine in the […]