Past News
(35) July 2021 ‒
Jose's paper Emergence of Ring-Shaped Microstructures in Restricted Geometries Containing Self-Propelled, Catalytic Janus Spheres is now available in the journal ChemNanoMat.
(34) April 2021 ‒
Congratulations to Parash for successfully defending his MS thesis!
(34) August 2020 ‒
Our paper Controlling the Speed of Light-Activated Colloids with a Constant, Uniform Magnetic Field is now available in the journal Small.
(33) April 2020 ‒
Congratulations to Brad, Nana, and Sterlling for successfully defending their MS theses!
(32) March 2020 ‒
Our paper Material-dependent performance of fuel-free, light-activated, self-propelling colloids was accepted by the journal Chemical Communications.
(31) November 2019 ‒
A review paper covering active colloidal matter research in the Gibbs Lab can now be found in Langmuir.
(30) October 2019 ‒
Sam is the lead author in our new paper Shape-Dependent, Chiro-optical Response of UV-Active, Nanohelix Metamaterials, now available in Nano Lett.
(29) July 2019 ‒
Congratulations to Michael for successfully defending his MS thesis!
(28) July 2019 ‒
Taylor and John G. traveled to Dresden, DE for the Microscale Motion and Light conference.
(27) Feruary 2019 ‒
PI J.G. Gibbs received a five-year grant through the Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation
(26) Feruary 2019 ‒
Our paper Engineering the dynamics of active colloids by targeted design of metal-semiconductor heterojunctions was published by Adv. Mater. Interfaces
(25) August 2018 ‒
Our paper Self-phoretic microswimmers propel at speeds dependent upon an adjacent surface's physicochemical properties is now available in J. Phys. Chem. Lett.
(24) July 2018 ‒
Our paper Light-activated, multi-semiconductor hybrid
microswimmers was published by the journal Small
(23) May 2018 ‒
Our paper Shape-dependent motion of structured photoactive microswimmers was published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
(22) April 2018 ‒
Congratulations to Joel and Raaman for successfully defending their MS theses!
(21) April 2018 ‒
Etude, Dylan, Raaman and John presented at the MRS Spring Meeting in Phoenix, AZ
(20) February 2018 ‒
RCSA names John Gibbs a Cottrell Scholar for 2018
(19) November 2017 ‒
Active colloidal propulsion over a crystalline surface has been accepted by the New Journal of Physics
(18) September 2017 ‒ our paper
Engineering Contactless Particle-Particle Interactions in Active Microswimmers has been accepted by Advanced Materials
(17) August 2017 ‒ NSF funds the project Photocatalytic Active Matter
(16) April 2017 ‒ our paper
Dynamic stabilization of Janus sphere trans-dimers has been accepted by
Physical Review E
(15) April 2016 ‒ the Gibbs Lab welcomes Research Associate Dr. Amir Nourhani
(14) August 2016 ‒ Amir's paper
Spiral diffusion of rotating self-propellers with stochastic perturbation in the journal Physical Review E is now available online.
(13) July 2016 ‒ the Gibbs Lab welcomes postdoctoral researcher
Dr. Dylan Nicholls from the University of North Dakota
(12) July 2016 ‒
Active nanorheology with plasmonics
was published in the ACS journal Nano Letters.
(11) July 2016 ‒ John Gibbs is off to Hannover, Germany to give a talk,
Consideration of orientation and geometry in active chemical colloids
at the MNM 2016 International Workshow on Micro- and Nanomachines.
(10) April 2016 ‒ Congratulations to Rob Castellanos for being awarded the 2016-2017 NASA Space Grant for
his project Numerically simulating gradient alloy materials!
(9) April 2016 ‒ Cheers to Andrew Wittmeier for successfully defending his MS thesis,
Probing Rotational Brownian Motion of Single-Entity Janus Systems via Differential Dynamic Microscopy!
(8) February 2016 ‒ Master's student Andrew Wittmeier was accepted to a PhD program at the University of Göttingen!
(7) September 2015 ‒ Andrew, Andrew, & Joel's paper
is accepted by Langmuir! (ACS)
(6) April 2015 ‒ Undergraduate Ra'Shae Esplin was awarded the Hooper Undergraduate Research Award for 2015-2016!
(5) April 2015 ‒
Surface roughness-induced speed increase for active Janus micromotors was published in ChemComm
(4) February 2015 ‒
Active Colloidal Microdrills is published in ChemComm
(3) December 2014 ‒ Project NanoPHISH is funded by the CFP Global and Interdisciplinary Fund at NAU
(2) September 2014 ‒ Chiral Nanomagnets is publised in ACS Photonics
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(1) August 2014 ‒ the Gibbs Lab is founded at NAU.