Mateusz Bieniek successfully defended his PhD thesis

On 29 November, Mateusz Bieniek conducted his PhD viva, which was examined by Dr. Paul Mulheran (University of Strathclyde) and Dr. Giorgia Brancolini (CNR NANO, Modena, Italy).  First, Mat gave an exit seminar to an audience including members of the Lorenz Lab, the two examiners and Dr. Willie Taylor, Mat’s superviser …

New paper: “Minor chemistry changes alter surface hydration to control fibronectin adsorption and assembly into nanofibrils”

Our recent manuscript — “Minor chemistry changes alter surface hydration to control fibronectin adsorption and assembly into nanofibrils” — reports the results of a multi-disciplinary investigation of mechanisms that govern material-driven fibrillogenesis.  Previously, our collaborators in Prof. Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez‘s group at the University of Glasgow showed that fibronectin formed fibril …