Gender differences in collaboration and career progression in physics.

We examine gender differences in collaboration networks and academic career progression in physics. We use the likelihood and time to become a principal investigator (PI) and the length of an author's career to measure career progression. Utilizing logistic regression and accelerated failure time models, we examine whether the effect of collaboration behaviour varies by gender.

A comprehensive methodology to study double emulsion stability.

Hypothesis: The stability of emulsions requires the fast formation of viscoelastic interfaces between water and oil phases. In double emulsions, two surfactant types (hydrophilic and lipophilic) are present and two interfacial films are involved. Understanding cooperative adsorption of these surfactants and its implication on properties of water/oil/water interfacial films will enable replacing the empirical methodologies used in designing double emulsion systems with a knowledge-based approach.

Bond formation kinetics affects self-assembly directed by ligand-receptor interactions.

In this paper we study aggregation kinetics in systems of particles functionalised by complementary linkers. Most of the coarse-grained models currently employed to study large-scale self-assembly of these systems rely on effective potentials between particles as calculated using equilibrium statistical mechanics. In these approaches the kinetic aspects underlying the formation of inter-particle linkages are neglected.