Recently I have completed my PhD at the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry department at the University of Oxford, working with the Oxford Colloid Group.
My research interest has been focused on topics of Soft Condensed Matter, and the title of my thesis is 'Colloidal particles for confocal microscopy and optical tweezing'. During my time at Oxford, I have created a new colloidal model system that is suitable for simultaneous 3D optical tweezing and confocal microscopy, and also shown its capability for studying phase behaviour and depletion interaction in dense materials.
Yanyan Liu, DPhil Oxon
UPCOMING EVENTS
MY LATEST RESEARCH
Two-step synthesis of concentric core-shell colloid -
how do you coat something that doesn't want to be coated? You coat it again of course! This is what we did to get the microparticles we needed for our experiment shown to the right. >>
"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."
Particle dynamics in dense 3D colloidal fluids -
by using refractive-index matched particles, we can successfully manipulate specific target particles inside a dense particle system! Not only that, but we can also watch how the neighbouring particles move in response. Check out the video!