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Buckling Necklace

The goldsmith Tom Stemmer crafted a necklace featuring a buckled chain of spheres, the system studied in detail in the group's current work (see below Mughal et al. 2021, Hutzler et al. 2020, Weaire et al. 2020). Tom thus joins the list of artists and designers who are inspired by the physics developed in our group. More of Tom's work can be found at his website: https://stemmer-goldschmiedeatelier.de/.

News 2021 October 11

Award for Kym Cox

Kym Cox's photograph of the Life Cycle of Soap Bubble Iridescence has been names the winner of the Man-Made category of the Close-up Photographer of the Year 2020 (Cupoty 02) competition. The photos were taken as part of an Art+Science collaboration with Prof. Stefan Hutzler.

News 2020 September 24

Physics in the pandemic: ‘There are some great experiments that can be done safely and simply at home’

In part of a series on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the personal and professional lives of physicists around the world, Ali Irannezhad spoke to Physics World about simple experiments that can be performed at home.

News 2020 August 7

Ten most recent publications

1. Weaire D, Mughal A, Ruan-Purcell J, Hutzler S (2022) Description of the buckling of a chain of hard spheres in terms of Jacobi functions , Physica D433133177
2. Zefeng J, Chenchen F, Cox S, Hutzler S (2021) Variation of average coordination number with liquid fraction for two-dimensional foams with finite contact angle , Philosophical Magazine91048
3. Mughal A, Weaire D, Hutzler S (2021) Peierls-Nabarro potential for a confined chain of hard spheres under compression , EPL13526002
4. Burke SR, Moebius M, Ketoja J, Hjelt T and Hutzler S (2021) Analysis of the foam-forming of non-woven lightweight fibrous materials using X-ray tomography., SN Applied Sciences192
5. Richmond P, Roehner B M, Irannezhad A and Hutzler S (2021) Mortality: a physics perspective, Physica A566125660
6. Hutzler S, F. F. Dunne, A. M. Kraynik and D. Weaire (2020), The energy of fcc and hcp foams, Soft Matter 16 8262-8271
7. Hutzler S, Mughal A, Ryan-Purcell J, Irannezhad A, Weaire D (2020), Buckling of a linear chain of hard spheres in a harmonic confining potential: Numerical and analytical results for low and high compression, PRE102 022905

8. Weaire D, Irannezhad A, Mughal A, Hutzler S (2020), A simple experimental system to illustrate the nonlinear properties of a linear chain under compression, American Journal of Physics 347 88

9. Winkelmann J, Mughal A, Weaire D, Hutzler S, (2020), Equilibrium configurations of hard spheres in a cylindrical harmonic potential, EPL 127 44002
10. Bois A, Garcia-Roger EM, Hong E, Hutzler S, Irannezhad A, Mannioui A, Richmond P, Roehner BM, Tronche S (2019), Congenital anomalies from a physics perspective. The key role of ‘‘manufacturing’’ volatility, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 537 122742