Proud to be involved in this. We showed (very) weak binding of multivalent cations to IDR -ve charges provides exquisite sensitivity of condensate properties to mM fluctuations in [cation]. Crucially, [Ca2+] stabilised condensates comprising -vely charged proteins

An editors' pick! ✅️ Congratulations to Adam Stones & Dirk Aarts on their new paper, showing how to measure many-body effects in fluid structure 💦🧮 Oxford Chemistry Christ Church pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/articl…

Congratulations to Clare for winning 'Guess the number of M&M's in the jar' at the PTCL Oxford Chemistry Christmas Party - all that practice counting colloidal particles paid off! 🍡🥳

If you're in town, see Dirk about to talk in Mexico, on g(r) ➡️u(r)➡️μ LII Winter Meeting on Statistical Physics 2024 Christ Church

Prof. Dirk Aarts Aarts lab from University of Oxford starting the 2nd day of the LII Winter Meeting on Statistical Physics 2024

Dr Jack Holland giving the Physical Chemistry Oxford Chemistry departmental Soft Matter Seminar today! The audience were educated on emergent phenomena of biological condensates 👨‍🏫🧫💧 Jack Holland Christ Church

A great opportunity for early career colloid researchers!

Congrats to Lachlan & Dirk, with collaborators, on their article in Physical Review E! Read about using machine learning to discover the dynamic laws of active matter, such as groups of cells, fish and birds 🦠🐠🐦 chantal valeriani Christ Church Oxford Chemistry journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/1…

Our lab is pleased to be reaccredited with the Silver LEAF sustainability status! 🥈🌿 Oxford Chemistry Environment @ Oxford Christ Church

First Aarts group meeting of the academic year - welcome to our 5 new Part II students! 🧪🥼 Oxford Chemistry Christ Church

Well done Clare (a Junior Research Fellow in our group) on the poster prize!! 👏😁

Dirk, Esme and Clare enjoyed great discussions last week about the colloid-polymer depletion interaction with Prof Remco Tuinier & Dr Max Martens at TU Eindhoven TU/e Chemical Engineering and Chemistry 📖💭🔬🇳🇱

This week, the Aarts lab Oxford Chemistry had a group dinner Gusto Italian Nice food with nice people 😁🍕🍝

Congratulations to Clare and Dirk, and collaborators in the groups of Prof Chantal Valeriani chantal valeriani Complutense and Prof Mark Miller Durham Chemistry, on their paper comparing inverse methods for measuring inter-particle potentials! 📏🔬🧮 doi.org/10.1063/5.0246…

It’s not too late to submit an abstract for ECCo 2025 - the deadline is now extended to the 6th of May. Join us in Aston!

Congratulations Jack Holland and Dirk on this publication with Tim Nott on the wetting behaviour of biomolecular condensates! 🧫💦 doi.org/10.1063/5.0253… Oxford Chemistry Christ Church

Congratulations Clare (Junior Research Fellow in our group) on this Knowledge Exchange award! 😁👏

Congratulations to our 'Rising Star' Clare! 🌟

Our lab is very pleased to have acheived Gold LEAF sustainable lab accreditation! 🏅🌿🥼 Christ Church Oxford Chemistry Environment @ Oxford

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Clare Rees-Zimmerman, Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, who received a prize for her oral presentation at the European Colloids Conference in Bristol! 👏 Read more 👉 chch.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-rees-z… #MuChChLove