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Prof Ramin Golestanian
Professor of Soft Matter
Contact details
- Room : E19
- Phone : +44 (0)114 22 24273
- Fax : +44 (0)114 22 23555
email : r.golestanian@sheffield.ac.uk
White Rose Doctoral Training Centre web site
Research interests
- Soft condensed matter
- Casimir effect and dispersion forces
- Elasticity of biopolymers
- Polyelectrolytes
- Wetting
- Molecular machines
Teaching
Departmental administration
- White Rose Doctoral Training Centre at the Life Science Interface
Professional activities
- Member, International Advisory Committee, IUPAP STATPHYS23, Italy (2007)
- Guest Editor, IoP Journal of Physics Condensed Matter (Volume 17, Number 14, 13 April 2005)
- Organiser, IUPAP STATPHYS22 satellite meeting, Statistical Physics of Complex Fluids, Iran (2004)
- Organiser, International Summer School on Soft and Biological Matter, Iran (2004)
- Elected member, Executive Committee of Condensed Matter Division, Physical Society of Iran (2001-05)
Recent key publications
- J.R. Howse, R.A.L. Jones, A.J. Ryan, T. Gough, R. Vafabakhsh, and R. Golestanian, "Self-motile colloidal particles: from directed propulsion to random walk", Phys Rev Lett 99, 048102 (2007)
- G.H. Lai, R. Coridan, O.V. Zribi, R. Golestanian, G.C.L. Wong, "Evolution of growth modes for polyelectrolyte bundles", Phys Rev Lett 98, 187802 (2007)
- A. Ashourvan, M.F. Miri, and R. Golestanian, "Non-contact rack and pinion powered by the lateral Casimir force", Phys Rev Lett 98, 140801 (2007)
- T.E. Angelini, R. Golestanian, R.H. Coridan, J.C. Butler, A. Beraud, M. Krisch, H. Sinn, K.S. Schweizer, and G.C.L. Wong, "Counterions between charged polymers exhibit liquid-like organization and dynamics", Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103, 7962 (2006)
- P. Le Doussal, K.J. Wiese, E. Raphael, R. Golestanian, "Can non-linear elasticity explain contact-line roughness at depinning?", Phys Rev Lett 96, 015702 (2006)
- R. Golestanian, "Lifshitz Interaction between Dielectric Bodies of Arbitrary Geometry", Phys Rev Lett 95, 230601 (2005)
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