Key events of the ABIOMATER project are listed below, including meeting, institution visits, publications, conferences and more.
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Future More news regarding events, talks, poster presentations and publications.
Past News & Events
2020
2-6/04/2020 Miss Elizabeth L. Martin won a Best Poster Award for her poster on “Investigation of Coupled Elasto-Magnetic Discs for Low Reynolds Number Pumps” at MMM2020, congratulations Lizzie!
2-6/04/2020 Miss Elizabeth L. Martin presents a poster on “Investigation of Coupled Elasto-Magnetic Discs for Low Reynolds Number Pumps” at MMM2020, and Professor Feodor Y. Ogrin was a session chair at the first Online MMM! They had a great experience at the conference.
9-10/09/2020 Mr Jacob L. Binsley presents a talk on “Microfluidic Devices Powered by Integrated Elasto-Magnetic Pumps” at the co-located Lab-on-a-chip and Microfluidics Europe 2020 & Point-of-Care, Biosensors & Mobile Diagnostics Europe 2020 Conferences. He presented online but the conference was a blend of online and in-person in Rotterdam.
7-11/05/2020 Mr Jacob L. Binsley has been aiding in the organisation of an outreach event Pint of Science. This is a global event that normally runs over three nights in May, in which researchers share their work with the public in the comfort of a local pub but this year it was all online and moved to September. Well done to all speakers and organisors.
23/10/2020 Mr Jacob L. Binsley, et al, published “Microfluidic devices powered by integrated elasto-magnetic pumps” in Lab on a Chip
19&20/02/2020 Miss Elizabeth L. Martin attended the Materials Research Exchange 2020 (MRE 2020) along side some of her XM2 colleagues. 2 eventful days in London with over 80 speakers, 1500 delegates, and 70 exhibitors attending enabled interesting conversations on how Exeter’s expertise could feed into commercial projects. She presented a poster and showed some of our swimmer demonstrations.
Find out more here!
Elizabeth with other CDT metamaterials staff & PhD students as well as members of TeamA at MRE 2020.
2019
December 2019 Exeter’s Team along with a few other physics friends had a Christmas celebration before the holidays. Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to Everyone!
Summer 2019 This summer, Miss Elizabeth L. Martin was awarded of the three summer student bursaries by the Center of Doctoral training in Metamaterial at the University of Exeter(XM2), covering a small stipend and project fees to allow them to host an undergraduate student for 8 weeks to complete a summer research project. She supervised the project “Investigation of Coupled Elasto-Magnetic Pumps for Wireless Fluid Movement”, that MPhys student Tom Moynihan was working on with her.
Find out more here!
Elizabeth (fourth from left to right) and Tom (fifth from left to right) with the other successful CDT metamaterials PhD students with the undergraduate students working on the projects.
16/10/2019 Dr Daiki Matsunaga, et al, published “Controlling collective rotational patterns of magnetic rotors” in Nature Communications
26-30/09/2019 Prof Hélène Joisten is presented a poster at the Joint European Magnetic Symposia (JEMS), Uppsala, Sweden.
25-27/07/2019 Dr Pietro Tierno is presented a talk at CECAM Workshop: Emergent dynamics and self-assembly of out-of-equilibrium colloids, Lausanne, Switzerland.
04/06/2019 Miss Helena Massana-Cid, et al, published “Tunable self-healing of magnetically propelling colloidal carpets” in Nature Communications
20-22/05/2019 Miss Elizabeth L. Martin has been aiding in the organisation of an outreach event Pint of Science. This is a global event that runs over three nights in May, in which researchers share their work with the public in the comfort of a local pub. Well done to all speakers and organisors.
15/05/2019 Miss Josep M. Pagès, et al, published “Anomalous Diffusion of Motile Colloids Dispersed in Liquid Crystals” in Physical Review Letters
17/05/2019 Dr Nicholas Bukin has now finished his position of the University of Exeter. All the best for the future and hopefully we will be able to collaborate with you in the future.
15-17/05/2019 Dr Fanlong Meng presents an invited talk on “Magnetic particle(s) in a microfluidic channel” at Workshop-Magnetism and Life, Riga, Latvia.
13-17/05/2019 Prof Julia Yeomans presents an invited talk on “Bacteria: self-motile liquid crystals?” at Optimal design of soft matter – including a celebration of Women in Materials Science (WMS), Cambridge, UK.
19/04/2019 Dr Fanlong Meng, et al, published “Magnetically-actuated artificial cilium: a simple theoretical model” in Soft Matter
15/04/2019 Prof Hélène Joisten, et al, published “Optical response of magnetically actuated biocompatible membranes” in Nanoscale
11-13/04/2019 Prof Julia Yeomans presents an invited talk at Heraeus Seminar, Wetting on Soft or Microstructured Surfaces, Mainz, Germany.
10-13/04/2019 Dr Fanlong Meng presents an invited talk on “Clustering of the magnetic swimmers in a microfluidic channel” at Interdisciplinary Challenges in Non-Equilibrium Physics, Edinburgh, UK.
10-13/04/2019 Miss Elizabeth L. Martin presents a talk on “Investigation of Coupled Elasto-Magnetic Pumps for Microfluidic Applications” at Magnetism, Leeds, UK. Read more about the trip here on the XM2 blog.
Elizabeth with other CDT metamaterials PhD students at the conference.
08/04/2019 Dr Matthew T. Bryan, et al, published “Microscale Magneto-Elastic Composite Swimmers at the Air-Water and Water-Solid Interfaces Under a Uniaxial Field” in Physical Review Applied
01/04/2019 Joshua Hamilton has passed his PhD viva, well done Dr Hamilton.
11-13/04/2019 Prof Julia Yeomans presents an invited talk at MicroMotility 2019, Venice, Italy.
11-13/03/2019 Dr Pietro Tierno presents a talk at CECAM Workshop: Emergent dynamics and self-assembly of out-of-equilibrium colloids, Lausanne, Switzerland.
08/03/2019 Dr Matthew T. Bryan has now become a Lecturer in Micro and Nano Electronics at Royal Holloway University of London. Congratulations and all the best for the future. Hopefully we will be able to collaborate with you in the future.
18-21/02/2019 Prof Feodor Ogrin presents an invited talk at CuSpin 2019, Copper Mountain, USA.
14-18/01/2019 Dr Matthew T. Bryan presents an invited talk at 14th Joint MMM-Intermag Conference, Washington DC, USA. Mr Peter Inzani also gave a talk as well as Miss Elizabeth Martin presenting a poster. All enjoyed the conference as well as the snow.
Elizabeth by her Poster Peter, David & Elizabeth outside the White house in the snow Peter, Elizabeth & a few other University of Exeter students at the conference center
14/01/2019 Miss Elizabeth L. Martin, et al, published “Advanced Processing of Micropatterned Elasto-Magnetic Membranes” in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
2018
13/12/2018 Exeter’s Team had a Christmas celebration before the holidays. Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to Everyone!
8-10/12/2018 Dr Fanlong Meng presents an invited talk on “Magnetic swimmers in a microfluidic channel” at A3 Project International Workshop on Soft matter, Beijing, China
Group photo from conference
07/12/2018 Miss Josep M. Pagès, et al, published “Inhomogeneous assembly of driven nematic colloids” in Soft Matter
5/12/2018 It was announced that Mr Peter D. Inzani from Exeter won an award for his talk in the annual CDT PGR conference. This is an internal conference where all second and third year metamaterial PhD students present their work from the previous year. Well done Peter!
Peter (far right) alongside the other award winners
30/11/2018 During the last 2 months Dr Fanlong Meng has presented two invited talks firstly on “Unravelling the mystery of the patterns in flocks of magnetic microswimmers in a microchannel,” at Max Planck Campus Seminar, Goettingen, Germany, in October and secondly on “Collective motion of the magnetic swimmers in a microfluidic channel” at the 11th National Conference on Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Chongqing, China, in November .
28-2/10-11/2018 Prof. Ignacio Pagonabarraga presents a talk at The 9th International Conference on multiscale materials modeling (MMM 2018), Osaka, Japan.
18/09/2018 Dr Nick Bukin joins the University of Exeter ABIOMATER team
18/09/2018 Mr Jacob Binsley joins the University of Exeter ABIOMATER team
01/08/2018 Dr Daiki Matsunaga has now become an Assistant Professor at the Graduate school of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Japan. Congratulations and all the best for the future. Hopefully we will be able to collaborate with you in the future.
1/02/2018 Dr Fanlong Meng presents a poster entitled “Clustering of magnetic swimmers in a microfluidic channel” at the 6th International Meeting on Magnetotactic Bacteria 2018 (MTB2018), Kanazawa, Japan.
04/09/2018 Mr Joshua K. Hamilton, et al, published “Torque driven ferromagnetic swimmers” in Physics of Fluids
18/07/2018 Dr Arthur V. Straube, et al, published “Assembly and transport of nematic colloidal swarms above photo-patterned defects and surfaces” in New Journal of Physics
9-11/07/2018 We held the “BIMS workshop” at Exeter
This thematic workshop focuses on the magnetically actuated and controlled microscopic systems enabling a range of actions at Low Reynolds number. From micro-robots and self-propelled swimmers to microfluidic and lab-on-a-chip technology, it will cover a range of topics which are of great interest in both fundamental and applied Physics. As well as world-leading experts in the field, including the confirmed invited speakers, the workshop aims at postgraduate and early careers researchers to maximise the exchange of knowledge and to provide a new platform for the development of new collaborations in this exciting scientific field.
The workshop is being held at Exeter over three days. During the three days there will be lots of exciting talks and posters. The workshop includes a dinner on the first night and a boat tour at Exmouth on the second.
We hope all attendees thoroughly enjoyed the workshop and we will them all a good journey back.
04/07/2018 Dr Daiki Matsunaga, et al, published “Far-field theory for trajectories of magnetic ellipsoids in rectangular and circular channels” in IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics
24-29/06/2018 Prof. Ignacio Pagonabarraga presents a talk at Twentieth symposium on thermophysical properties, Boulder, USA.
25/05/2018 Early Registration for the BIMS workshop ends today
15-18/05/2018 Prof. Ignacio Pagonabarraga presents a talk at IUTAM Symposium on Motile cells in complex environments, Udine, Italy.
04/05/2018 Dr Fanlong Meng, et al, published “Clustering of magnetic swimmers in a Poiseuille flow” in Physical Review Letters
29-4/05/2018 Prof Feodor Ogrin presents an invited talk at 6th International Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism, (ICSM2018), Turkey. Mr Joshua Hamilton presented a poster at this conference and won 3rd best poster prize, well done Josh!
Group photo from conference
26/04/2018 Notification of abstract acceptance for the BIMS workshop is today, early registration is until the 25/05/2018
25/04/2018 Dr José Manuel García-Torres, et al, published “Magnetically tunable bidirectional locomotion of a self-assembled nanorod-sphere propeller” in Nature Communications
29-4/05/2018 Prof Julia Yeomans gave a plenary talks at Active Matter, Confinement and Viscoelasticity: the microfluidics playgrounding School, Naples
13/04/2018 Abstract submission deadline for the BIMS workshop is today
9-10/04/2018 Miss Elizabeth L. Martin gave a talks at Magnetism, Manchester, UK. Dr Matthew T. Bryan and Mr Joshua K. Hamilton also presented posters at this conference.
26-28/03/2018 Prof. Ignacio Pagonabarraga presents a talk at 2nd International Conference on Simulation Technology, Stuttgart, Germany.
9-23/03/2018 Miss Elizabeth L. Martin went to Queen Elizabeth School to talk about her research to some pupils, find out more here 
5-9/02/2018 Dr Pietro Tierno presents a talk at International conference Flowing Matter 2018, Lisbon, Portugal.
1/02/2018 Dr Fanlong Meng presents an invited talk on “Clustering of magnetic swimmers in a microfluidic channel” at 2nd Young Scientists’ Forum on Theoretical Physics and Interdisciplinary Studies, Beijing, China
20/01/2018 Call for papers for the BIMS workshop ends today, abstract submission deadline is 13/04/18.
17/01/2018 Mr Joshua K. Hamilton, et al, published “A new class of magnetically actuated pumps and valves for microfluidic applications” in Scientific Reports
2017
18-19/12/2017 Prof Julia Yeomans presents an invited talk at the EPSRC NetworkPlus – Emergence and Physics Far From Equilibrium, Loughborough, UK
14/12/2017 – 15/12/2017 4th ABIOMATER project meeting (@Oxford)
18-19/12/2017 Dr Pietro Tierno and Dr José Manuel García-Torres both present at COST workshop “Dynamics of Self-Organization: from colloids to biomaterials“, Barcelona, Spain
08/11/2017 Dr Daiki Matsunaga, et al, published “Focusing and Sorting of Ellipsoidal Magnetic Particles in Microchannels” in Physical Review Letters
6-10/11/2017 Mr Joshua Hamilton presents a talk and Miss Elizabeth L. Martin presents a poster at , Pittsburgh, USA.
29-30/10/2017 Prof Julia Yeomans presents an invited talk at the 4th Annual International Workshop on Soft and Complex Matter, Oslo, Norway
18/09/2017 Mr Peter D. Inzani joins the University of Exeter ABIOMATER team
14-17/09/2017 Dr Daiki Matsunaga presents a talk and a poster at the 5th Switzerland-Japan Workshop on Biomechanics, Zermatt , Switzerland.
21-26/08/2017 Dr Matthew T. Bryan presents a talk “Two-dimensional motion of ferromagnetic swimmers in a uniaxial magnetic field” at the Joint European Magnetic Symposia, Glasgow, UK
13-19/08/2017 Mr Joshua K. Hamilton and Miss Elizabeth L. Martin both present posters at the Micromotors Summer School, Dresden, Germany and Prof Ramin Golestanian presented an invited talk at the Summer School.
01/09/2017 Dr Simon Horsley, Dr Stefano Pagliara and Dr Gavin Tabor join the University of Exeter ABIOMATER team
12/07/2017 Prof Julia Yeomans presents an invited talk at the Inaugural meeting of the UK Fluids Network Special Interest Group in Biologically Active Fluids, Birmingham, UK
19-22/07/2017 Dr José Manuel García-Torres and Prof Ignacio Pagonabarraga presents at the 9th International Conference Engineering of Chemical Complexity, Vilanova i la Geltru, Spain
4/07/2017 Dr Matthew T. Bryan presents an invited talk on “Magnetic micro-robots for drug delivery and fluid control” at Computational biology symposium, Exeter, UK
1-5/07/2017 Prof Hélène Joisten presents an invited talk on “Magnetic microparticle vibrations at low frequency: a new approach to fighting cancer” at Moscow International Symposium on Magnetism, Moscow, Russia.
5-9/6/2017 Prof Julia Yeomans presents an invited talk at the GRC on the Physics and Chemistry of Microfluidics, Lucca, Italy
29/05/2017 Dr Feodor Y. Ogrin presents an invited talk on “Ferromagnetic Micro-Swimmers” at Emerging Technologies 2017, Warsaw, Poland
15/05/2017 – 16/05/2017 3rd ABIOMATER project meeting (@Grenoble)
24/04/2017 Dr Bernard Dieny presents an invited tutorial on the Internet of Things entitled “Non-Volatile Magnetic Memories for Internet of Things” at Intermag 2017, Dublin, Ireland. Dr Matthew T. Bryan and Mr Joshua K. Hamilton also present talks entitled “Experimental demonstration of swimming magneto-elastic microbots” and “Ferromagnetic swimmer: A microfluidic pump prototype” respectively.
3/04/2017 Miss Elizabeth L. Martin, Mr Joshua K. Hamilton present posters entitled “The investigation of the coercive field and saturation magnetisation of microscopic CoNiP elements produced by electrodeposition” and Ferromagnetic swimmer: A microfluidic pump prototype” respectively with Dr Matthew T. Bryan presenting a talk “Experimental demonstration of swimming magneto-elastic micro-robots” at Magnetism 2017, York, UK
3/04/2017 Dr Bernard Dieny presents the Plenary talk “Emerging applications of nanomagnetism and spintronics from microelectronics to biomedical” at Magnetism 2017, York, UK
27/03/2017 Dr Cécile Iss, et al, published “Fabrication of nanotweezers and their remote actuation by magnetic fields” in Scientific Reports
9/03/2017 Mr Joshua K. Hamilton, et al, published “Magnetically controlled ferromagnetic swimmers” in Scientific Reports
28-3/2-3/2017 Dr Pietro Tierno presents at Cost Action MP1305: Dynamics of Interfaces in Complex Fluids and Complex Flows, Erlangen, Germany
21/02/2017 Dr Matthew T. Bryan, et al, published “Emergent propagation modes of ferromagnetic swimmers in constrained geometries” in Journal of Applied Physics
17/01/2017 Checkpoint meeting in Brussels, Belgium
2016
31-4/10-11/2016 Dr Alain Truong presents a talk and a poster at the 61st Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM), New Orleans , USA.
19-23/9/2016 Dr Alain Truong presents a poster entitled “Magneto-optical Micromechanical Systems for Magnetic Field Mapping”at Nanomaterials, Mines Nancy, France.
1-5/09/2016 Prof Hélène Joisten presents an invited talk at ICAUMS 2016 Conference in Tainan, Taiwan.
7-9/09/2016 Dr Fanlong Meng presents a poster at Soft matter –Theoretical and Industrical Challenges, Cambridge, UK.
21-26/08/2016 Dr Matthew T. Bryan presents a talk entitled “Two-dimensional motion of ferromagnetic swimmers in a uniaxial magnetic field” at the Joint European Magnetic Symposium (JEMS), Glasgow, UK.
17/08/2016 Dr Alain Truong, et al, published “Magneto-optical micromechanical systems for magnetic field mapping” in Scientific Reports.
1/08/2016 Miss Elizabeth L. Martin joins the University of Exeter ABIOMATER team.
25/07/2016 – 05/08/2016 Dr José Manuel García-Torres visits the University of Exeter to use the Platform Kinetics microscope system.
12-23/7/2016 Dr Fanlong Meng presents a poster at Active Complex Matter, Cargese, France.
7/07/2016 Platform Kinetics installs microscope with embedded 3D magnetic field at the University of Exeter.
30/06/2016 Prof Julia Yeomans gave a Keynote Lecture with Prof Ramin Golestanian & Dr Pietro Tierno both presenting invited talks at the 3rd International Symposium on Micro- and Nanomachines, Hannover, Germany.
23/06/2016 ABIOMATER Twitter account goes live
16/06/2016 – 17/06/2016 2nd ABIOMATER project meeting (@Barcelona)
17/05/2016 Mr Joshua K. Hamilton presents a poster entitled “Experimental Investigation of Magnetically Controlled Ferromagnetic Swimmers” at the MAST STC Defence Materials Forum, Exeter, UK
27/04/2016 Dr Pietro Tierno & Dr Feodor Ogrin both present invited talks on “Colloidal Microworms” and “Ferromagnetic Micro-Swimmers”at the 5th International Conference on Supercondutivty and Magnetism in Fethiye, Turkey
26/04/2016 Mr Joshua K. Hamilton presents a poster entitled “Experimental Investigation of Magnetically Controlled Ferromagnetic Swimmers” at the 5th International Conference on Supercondutivty and Magnetism in Fethiye, Turkey.
05/04/2016 Mr Joshua K. Hamilton presents a talk on “Experimental Investigation of Magnetically Controlled Ferromagnetic Swimmers” at Magnetism 2016, Sheffield, UK
11/01/2016 Dr Matthew T. Bryan joins the University of Exeter ABIOMATER team
2015
2-5/12/2015 Prof Hélène Joisten presents an invited talk at International Conference on Magnetic Materials and Applications, Vellore, India
09/11/2015 1st ABIOMATER project meeting (@Exeter)
01/11/2015 The ABIOMATER project begins