Schedule for Nanoscience Seminars 2018/19.
Welcome to the schedule for seminars in Nanoscience! For past seminars, please use the Page tree on the left of the screen. For seminars further back, please consult the Moodle page.
Time and place: Thursday, 13:15 - 14:05, 3W 4.7
| Date | Speaker(s) | Chair |
| 4th October 2018 | Welcome Session (25 min) | DW |
| 11th | Dr Anton Souslov | KT |
| 18th | MPhys lightening talks Alex Newbold and Christine Turner, “Searching for alternatives to the sticky tape method” | KT |
| 25th | Dr Anneke Lubben and Dr Philip Fletcher, | KT |
| 1st November | Liam Farrar "A magnetotransport study of the 2D unconventional superconductor FeSe"(15 + 5 min) Ultan Daly - "Embedding for 2D materials" (8+2 min) Jack Temple and Edward Green "Nanoscale lightening bolts in the lab" (8+2 min) Group Photo Shoot | KT |
| 8th | Anamaria Trandafir "An STM/STS study of precursors for hybrid 2D molecular networks" (20+5 min) | KT |
| 9th (Theory) | Prof Pawel Keblinski (RPI and Polish Academy of Sciences) 13:15 in 8 West 2.6 | |
| 15th | Staff Meeting (Post-docs, fellows to professors) | DW |
| 22nd | Nisrin Alnaim (20+5 min), "Electronic devices from liquid crystal mesophases" Aitor Garcia-Ruiz (20 + 5 min), "Electronic Raman scattering in twisted bilayer graphene" | KT |
| 29th | Nicola Bannister (20 + 5 min), "Vibrations and Polymorphs of Coronene" Lawrence Gammond (20 + 5 min) "Extreme Conditions in 5 West" | KT |
| 6th December | Joseph Taylor (20 + 5 min) "Estimating the biophysical properties of mammalian neurons." Tom Street and Rosey Fort, “Spectroscopy of two dimensional materials via optical fibres” | KT |
| 13th | Najla Almuhem "Photovoltage Detection of Dipolar Spin Wave of Nanomagnets with 2DEG System" (20 + 5 min) Alex Newbold and Christine Turner (9+3 min), “Searching for alternatives to the sticky tape method” Ke Wen and Christopher Dundas (9+3 min), “Lubricant Leidenfrost” | KT |
| 20th | No Seminar | |
| WINTER VAC | ||
| 7th February 2019 | Maha Alqarni (20+5 min) “Probing and tailoring the anisotropic properties of low symmetry two dimensional materials” Alize Gaumet (20+5 min) "Graphite-silicone strain sensors for structural health monitoring." | DW |
| 14th | David Collomb "Nanoscale CVD graphene Hall probes for high resolution magnetic imaging" (25 min) Rehearsal for APS March Meeting | DW |
| 21st | Surani Gunasekera 'Electronic structure of the rhenium dichalcogenides' | DW |
| 28th | Charles Sayers Aitor Garcia-Ruiz - TBC - rehearsal for APS | KT |
| 7th March | Matthew Reeves (20+5 min) "THz pump-probe studies of carrier dynamics in the phase change material GST” | DW |
| 14th | Dewan Chowdhury "Atomic manipulation on Si(111)-7x7 with STM and modelling with DFT". | DW |
| 21st | Staff Meeting (Post-docs, fellows to professors) | DW |
| 28th | Will Campbell - on his work with Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology on CVD growth of 2D TMDs, specifically WS2. | DW |
| 4th April | Reports from the APS Spring Meet - Liam Farrar, Aitor Garcia-Ruiz and Charles Sayers | |
| 11th | Henry Etheridge | |
| 18th | ||
EASTER VAC | ||
Abstracts:
11th October 2018
Dr Anton Souslov
“Odd viscosity in chiral active fluids”
“Chiral active fluids are materials composed of self-spinning rotors that continuously inject energy and angular momentum at the microscale. Out-of-equilibrium fluids with active-rotor constituents have been experimentally realized using nanoscale biomolecular motors, microscale active colloids, or macroscale driven chiral grains. I will discuss how chiral active fluids break both parity and time-reversal symmetries in their steady states, giving rise to a dissipationless linear-response coefficient called odd (equivalently, Hall) viscosity in their constitutive relations. This odd viscosity provides no energy dissipation, but can give rise to a transverse flow – for example within a hypersonic shock. Such a Hall viscosity has been recently measured in the electron fluid within a graphene sheet subject to an out-of-plane magnetic field. However, only in active fluids does odd viscosity: (i) arise out of equilibrium, (ii) always come accompanied by an antisymmetric stress, and (iii) become ill-defined in the regime in which active rotations are hindered by interactions. I will examine the origins of odd viscosity and suggest how this property may be exploited to build machines powered by active fluids.”