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Dr. Matthias Moebius

Dr. Matthias Moebius

Associate Professor, Physics

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Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Barwich, S., Coleman, J.N., Möbius, M.E, Yielding and flow of highly concentrated, few-layer graphene suspensions, Soft Matter, 11, (16), 2015, p3159-3164Journal Article, 2015, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Monzon L.M.A, Gillen A.J, Mobius M.E, Coey J.M.D, Effect of tetraalkylammonium cations on gas coalescence at a hydrogen-evolving microelectrode, Langmuir, 31, (21), 2015, p5737 - 5747Journal Article, 2015, DOI , URL
  • Zhang, Chi, O'Donovan, Cathal B., Corwin, Eric I., Cardinaux, Frederic, Mason, Thomas G., Moebius, Matthias E., Scheffold, Frank, Structure of marginally jammed polydisperse packings of frictionless spheres, Physical Review E, 91, (3), 2015Journal Article, 2015
  • McCarney, E.P., Byrne, J.P., Twamley, B., Martínez-Calvo, M., Ryan, G., Möbius, M.E., Gunnlaugsson, T., Self-assembly formation of a healable lanthanide luminescent supramolecular metallogel from 2,6-bis(1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)pyridine (btp) ligands, Chemical Communications, 51, (74), 2015, p14123-14126Journal Article, 2015
  • Martinez-Calvo M, Kotova O, Mobius M.E, Bell A.P, McCabe T, Boland J.J, Gunnlaugsson T, Healable luminescent self-assembly supramolecular metallogels possessing lanthanide (Eu/Tb) dependent rheological and morphological properties, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137, (5), 2015, p1983 - 1992Journal Article, 2015, DOI , URL
  • Boland C.S, Khan U, Ryan G, Barwich S, Charifou R, Harvey A, Backes C, Li Z, Ferreira M.S, Möbius M.E, Young R.J, Coleman J.N, Sensitive electromechanical sensors using viscoelastic graphene-polymer nanocomposites, Science, 354, (6317), 2016, p1257 - 1260Journal Article, 2016, DOI , URL
  • Lovitt J.I, Hawes C.S, Lynes A.D, Haffner B, Möbius M.E, Gunnlaugsson T, Coordination chemistry of N-picolyl-1,8-naphthalimides: Colourful low molecular weight metallo-gelators and unique chelation behaviours, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 4, (2), 2017, p296 - 308Journal Article, 2017, DOI , URL
  • Hawes C.S, Lynes A.D, Byrne K, Schmitt W, Ryan G, Möbius M.E, Gunnlaugsson T, A resilient and luminescent stimuli-responsive hydrogel from a heterotopic 1,8-naphthalimide-derived ligand, Chemical Communications, 53, (44), 2017, p5989 - 5992Journal Article, 2017, DOI , URL
  • Lynes A.D, Hawes C.S, Ward E.N, Haffner B, Möbius M.E, Byrne K, Schmitt W, Pal R, Gunnlaugsson T, Benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamide n-alkyl ester and carboxylic acid derivatives: tuneable structural, morphological and thermal properties, CrystEngComm, 19, (10), 2017, p1427 - 1438Journal Article, 2017, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Hutzler S, Moebius M, Tcholakova S and Elias F(ed.), Eufoam 2016, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, Trinity College Dublin, 534, July 3-6, 2016, Elsevier, 2017, 1-138 pProceedings of a Conference, 2017, TARA - Full Text
  • J Winkelmann, FF Dunne, VJ Langlois, ME Moebius, D Weaire, S Hutzler, 2D foams above the jamming transition: Deformation matters, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 534, 2017, p52 - 57Journal Article, 2017, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Belali, S.; Emandi, G.; Cafolla, A. A.; O'Connell, B.; Haffner, B.; Möbius, M. E.; Karimi, A.; Senge, M. O., Water-soluble, neutral 3,5-diformyl-BODIPY with extended fluorescence lifetime in a self-healable chitosan hydrogel, Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 16, 2017, p1700-1708Journal Article, 2017, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Coey, J.M.D. and Möbius, M. and Gillen, A.J. and Sen, S., Generation and stability of freestanding aqueous microbubbles, Electrochemistry Communications, 76, 2017, p38-41Journal Article, 2017, DOI , URL
  • Burke, S.R., Möbius, M.E., Hjelt T and Hutzler S , Properties of lightweight fibrous structures made by a novel foam forming technique, Cellulose, 26, 2019, p2529 - 2539Journal Article, 2019, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Rathan S., Dejob L., Schipani R., Haffner B., Mobius M.E., Kelly D.J., Fiber Reinforced Cartilage ECM Functionalized Bioinks for Functional Cartilage Tissue Engineering, Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2019Journal Article, 2019, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • SR Burke, M. Moebius, J Ketoja, T Hjelt and S Hutzler,, Analysis of the foam-forming of non-woven lightweight fibrous materials using X-ray tomography, SN Applied Sciences, 3, 2021, p192-Journal Article, 2021, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Daniel P. O'Driscoll, Sean McMahon, James Garcia, Sonia Biccai, Cian Gabbett, Adam G. Kelly, Sebastian Barwich, Matthias Moebius, Conor S. Boland and Jonathan N. Coleman, Printable G-putty for Frequency and Rate Independent, High Performance Strain Sensors, Small, 2021Journal Article, 2021, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Yunhong Shi, Dunzhu Li, Liwen Xiao*, Daragh Mullarkey, Daniel K. Kehoe, Emmet D. Sheerin, Sebastian Barwich, Luming Yang, Yurii K. Gun'ko, Igor V. Shvets, Matthias E. Möbius, John J. Boland*, Jing Jing Wang* , Real-world natural passivation phenomena can limit microplastic generation in water, Chemical Engineering Journal, 425, 2022Journal Article, 2022, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Liu J., Mckeon L., Garcia J., Pinilla S., Barwich S., Mobius M., Stamenov P., Coleman J.N., Nicolosi V., Additive Manufacturing of Ti3C2-MXene-Functionalized Conductive Polymer Hydrogels for Electromagnetic-Interference Shielding, Advanced Materials, 2021Journal Article, 2021, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • June I. Lovitt, Tumpa Gorai, Emanuele Cappello, Jason M. Delente, Sebastian T. Barwich, Matthias E. Möbius, Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Chris S. Hawes, Supramolecular aggregation properties of 4-(1-morpholino)-1,8-naphthalimide based fluorescent materials, Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2021Journal Article, 2021
  • Isabel N. Hegarty, Hannah L. Dalton, Amy D. Lynes, Benjamin Haffner, Matthias E. Möbius, Chris S. Hawes, Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Balancing connectivity with function in silver(i) networks of pyridyltriazole (tzpa) ligands results in the formation of a metallogel, Dalton Transactions, 2020Journal Article, 2020
  • Kotova, O. and O'Reilly, C. and Barwich, S.T. and Mackenzie, L.E. and Lynes, A.D. and Savyasachi, A.J. and Ruether, M. and Pal, R. and Möbius, M.E. and Gunnlaugsson, T., Lanthanide luminescence from supramolecular hydrogels consisting of bio-conjugated picolinic-acid-based guanosine quadruplexes, Chem, 8, (5), 2022, p1395-1414Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL
  • Poulose, S., Venkatesan, M., Möbius, M., Coey, J.M.D., Evaporation of water and urea solution in a magnetic field; the role of nuclear isomers, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 629, 2023, p814 - 824Journal Article, 2023, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Sruthy Poulose, Jennifer A Quirke, Plamen Stamenov, Matthias E. Möbius, J. M. D. Coey, Deformation and necking of liquid droplets in a magnetic field., Physics of Fluids, 2022Journal Article, 2022, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Liu, J., Mckeon, L., Garcia, J., Pinilla, S., Barwich, S., Möbius, M., Stamenov, P., Coleman, J.N., Nicolosi, V., Additive Manufacturing of Ti3C2-MXene-Functionalized Conductive Polymer Hydrogels for Electromagnetic-Interference Shielding, Advanced Materials, 34, (5), 2022Journal Article, 2022, DOI
  • Sebastian Barwich, Matthias E. Möbius, The elastic response of graphene oxide gels as a crumpling phenomenon, Soft Matter, 2022Journal Article, 2022, DOI
  • Li K., Zhao J., Zhussupbekova A., Shuck C.E., Hughes L., Dong Y., Barwich S., Vaesen S., Shvets I.V., Mobius M., Schmitt W., Gogotsi Y., Nicolosi V., 4D printing of MXene hydrogels for high-efficiency pseudocapacitive energy storage, Nature Communications, 13, (1), 2022Journal Article, 2022, DOI
  • Aaron D. Sinnott, Adam Kelly, Cian Gabbett, Matthias Mobius, Jonathan Coleman, Graham L.W. Cross, Pressure Dependent Mechanical Properties of Thin Films under Uniaxial Strain via the Layer Compression Test, Journal of Materials Research, 2023Journal Article, 2023, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Fan LC, McConn K, Plataki M, Kenny S, Williams NC, Kim K, Quirke JA, Chen Y, Sauler M, Möbius ME, Chung KP, Area Gomez E, Choi AM, Xu JF, Cloonan SM., Alveolar type II epithelial cell FASN maintains lipid homeostasis in experimental COPD., JCI insight, 8, (16), 2023, pe163403Journal Article, 2023, DOI
  • Sinnott, A.D. and Kelly, A. and Gabbett, C. and Munuera, J. and Doolan, L. and Möbius, M. and Ippolito, S. and Samorì, P. and Coleman, J.N. and Cross, G.L.W., Mechanical Properties of Conducting Printed Nanosheet Network Thin Films Under Uniaxial Compression, Advanced Materials, 2023Journal Article, 2023, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Wenyou Zhang, Rocco Lupoi, Development of a novel powder sheets printing process towards the next generation of additive manufacturing: the role of laser defocusing, Virtual and Physical Prototyping, 19, (1), 2024, p1 - 20Journal Article, 2024, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Aljarid A.K.A., Winder J., Wei C., Venkatraman A., Tomes O., Soul A., Papageorgiou D.G., Mobius M.E., Boland C.S., Hometronics " accessible production of graphene suspensions for health sensing applications using only household items, npj 2D Materials and Applications, 8, (1), 2024Journal Article, 2024, DOI
  • Savyasachi, Aramballi J. and Kotova, Oxana and Luis, Ena T. and Lynes, Amy D. and Mills, Shaun and Bright, Sandra A. and McManus, Gavin J. and Möbius, Matthias E. and Williams, D. Clive and Pal, Robert and Boland, John J. and Gunnlaugsson, Thorfinnur, Exerting control of self-assembly pathways via morphological switching and patterning in amino-acid-based benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamide conjugates, Chem, 11, (2), 2025Journal Article, 2025, DOI , URL
  • Gudmundsson, Tómas A. and Kotova, Oxana and Barwich, Sebastian and Möbius, Matthias E. and Gunnlaugsson, Thorfinnur, Versatile, Extrudable and Luminescent Tripodal BTA-Terpyridine (tpy) Gel Cross-Linked with d- and f-Block Metal Ions, Chemistry - A European Journal, 2025Journal Article, 2025, DOI , URL
  • Quirke, J.A. and Möbius, M.E., Spreading of graphene oxide suspensions droplets on smooth surfaces, Physics of Fluids, 36, (11), 2024Journal Article, 2024, DOI , URL
  • Katgert, G.; Mobius, M.E.; van Hecke, M, Rate dependence and role of disorder in linearly sheared two-dimensional foams, Physical Review Letters, 101, (5), 2008, p058301-1 - 058301-4Journal Article, 2008, DOI
  • Mobius, M.E., Clustering instability in a freely falling granular jet, Physical Review E, 74, (5), 2006, p051304-1 - 051304-9Journal Article, 2006, DOI
  • Xiang Cheng, Jeremy B. Lechman, Antonio Fernandez-Barbero, Gary S. Grest, Heinrich M. Jaeger, Greg S. Karczmar, Matthias E. Möbius, and Sidney R. Nagel, Three-dimensional shear in granular flow, Physical Review Letters, 96, (3), 2006, p038001-1 - 038001-4Journal Article, 2006, DOI
  • Mobius, ME; Cheng, X; Karczmar, GS; Nagel, SR; Jaeger, HM, Intruders in the dust: Air-driven granular size separation, Physical Review Letters, 74, (5), 2004, p198001-1 - 198001-4Journal Article, 2004, DOI
  • Matthias E. Möbius, Xiang Cheng, Peter Eshuis, Greg S. Karczmar, Sidney R. Nagel, and Heinrich M. Jaeger, Effect of air on granular size separation in a vibrated granular bed, Physical Review E, 72, (1), 2005, p011304-1 - 011304-13Journal Article, 2005, DOI
  • Mobius, M.; Nagel, S.R.; Jaeger, H.M., Size and density separation in granular materials, Granular Material-Based Technologies, Symposium on Granular Material-Based Technologies , Boston, MA, 2002, edited by Sen, S.; Hunt, M.L.; Hurd, A.J. , 579, Materials Research Society, 2003, pp115 - 125Conference Paper, 2003
  • Matthias E. Möbius, Benjamin E. Lauderdale, Sidney R. Nagel and Heinrich M. Jaeger, Brazil-nut effect: Size separation of granular particles, Nature, 414, 2001, p270 - 270Journal Article, 2001, DOI
  • Evans, T.S.; Ivin, M.; Mobius, M., An optimized perturbation expansion for a global O(2) theory , Nuclear Physics B, 577, (1-2), 2000, p325 - 340Journal Article, 2000, DOI
  • Möbius ME, Xia T, van Saarloos W, Orrit M, van Hecke M, Aging and solidification of supercooled glycerol., The journal of physical chemistry. B, 114, (22), 2010, p7439-44Journal Article, 2010, DOI
  • Royer JR, Oyarte L, Möbius ME, Jaeger HM, Rupture and clustering in granular streams., Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.), 19, (4), 2009, p041103Journal Article, 2009, DOI
  • Katgert G, Latka A, Möbius ME, van Hecke M, Flow in linearly sheared two-dimensional foams: From bubble to bulk scale., Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 79, (6 Pt 2), 2009, p066318Journal Article, 2009, DOI
  • Royer JR, Evans DJ, Oyarte L, Guo Q, Kapit E, Möbius ME, Waitukaitis SR, Jaeger HM, High-speed tracking of rupture and clustering in freely falling granular streams., Nature, 459, (7250), 2009, p1110-3Journal Article, 2009, DOI
  • G. Katgert, B.P. Tighe, M.E. Mobius, M. van Hecke, Couette flow of two-dimensional foams, Europhysics Letters, 90, 2010, p54002-p1 - 54002-p6Journal Article, 2010
  • M.E Möbius, G. Katgert, M. van Hecke, Relaxation and Flow in a linearly sheared two-dimensional foam, Europhysics Letters, 90, 2010, p44003-p1 - 44003-p6Journal Article, 2010
  • Tobin S.T., Meagher A.J., Bulfin B., Moebius M. and Hutzler S., A public study of the lifetime distribution of soap films, American Journal of Physics, 79, (8), 2011, p819 - 824Journal Article, 2011, DOI
  • O'Donovan CB, Möbius ME, Spatial correlations in polydisperse, frictionless, two-dimensional packings., Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 84, (2-1), 2011, p020302Journal Article, 2011, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
  • M.B. Sexton, M.E. Moebius and S. Hutzler, Bubble dynamics and rheology in sheared two-dimensional foams, Soft Matter, 7, 2011, p11252 - 11258Journal Article, 2011, DOI
  • D. Fernández, M. Martine, A. Meagher, M.E. Möbius, J.M.D. Coey, Stabilizing effect of a magnetic field on a gas bubble produced at a microelectrode, Electrochemistry Communications, 18, 2012, p28-32Journal Article, 2012, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Sexton MB, Hardiman SJ, Moebius ME and Hutzler S , Sheared disk packings as a model system for complex dynamics, Physica A, 394, 2014, p312 - 319Journal Article, 2014, DOI
  • C.B. O'Donovan, E.I. Corwin, M.E. Möbius, Mean-field granocentric approach in 2D & 3D polydisperse, frictionless packings, Philosophical Magazine, 93, (31-33), 2013, p4030 - 4056Journal Article, 2013, DOI , URL
  • Paton KR, Varrla E, Backes C, Smith RJ, Khan U, O'Neill A, Boland C, Lotya M, Istrate OM, King P, Higgins T, Barwich S, May P, Puczkarski P, Ahmed I, Moebius M, Pettersson H, Long E, Coelho J, O'Brien SE, McGuire EK, Sanchez BM, Duesberg GS, McEvoy N, Pennycook TJ, Downing C, Crossley A, Nicolosi V, Coleman JN, Scalable production of large quantities of defect-free few-layer graphene by shear exfoliation in liquids., Nature materials, 13, (6), 2014, p624-30Journal Article, 2014, DOI
  • D Fernández, P Maurer, M Martine, JMD Coey, ME Möbius, Bubble formation at a gas-evolving microelectrode, Langmuir, 2014Journal Article, 2014, DOI
  • S Hutzler, F Elias, M Moebius, S Tcholakova, Foreword, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 534, 2017, p1 - 1Journal Article, DOI

Research Expertise

My research is on experimental soft condensed matter physics which deals with materials that exhibit both liquid and solid-like behaviour with a particular focus on the relationship between microstructure and viscoelastic flow properties. Predicting and tuning these properties is crucial in many industries such as additive manufacturing and pharmaceutics. Furthermore I study fluid dynamic problems that involve bubbles and droplets such as bubble formation during electrolysis. Currently we are investigating the flow of nanosheet (e.g. graphene) suspensions in microchannels and droplet impacts in the context of printed electronics.

I have made significant contributions in understanding the flow phenomena of a wide range of materials - from granular media to nanoparticle gels. This has led to high impact publications in Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters. 9 of my publications have been cited more than 100 times.

I discovered a new mechanism for granular size separation that is relevant for powder mixing in pharmaceutics and more recently elucidated the physical origin of the elastic response of nanosheet gels which is crucial for predicting and tuning the flow properties in printed electronics applications. I have also made key contributions to highly cited papers of my colleagues such as the shear exfoliation of nanosheets which enables the mass production of these particles.

In our lab we use rheometry, tensiometry, high speed imaging and optical coherence tomography to study the properties and dynamics of the complex fluids. These combined capabilities are unique in Ireland and led to many fruitful local collaborations with colleagues from physics (Hutzler, Coleman, Coey), chemistry (Gunnlaugsson, Nicolosi, Boland), bioengineering (Kelly) and medicine (Cloonan) as well as international ones in Europe and the USA.

I have also engaged with industry and was an official academic partner with an Irish SME (LIOS) in the commercialisation of acoustic metamaterials in the successfully funded H2020 SME instrument project TANDEM.

I have attracted 1.3million euro in funding since I became a lecturer in 2009. My research program has been awarded the highest A-Rating by the European Research Council (CoG 2018) and I was on the reserve list of the IRC Laureate fund which demonstrates the quality and international recognition of my research program.

Recognition

  • Trinity College Fellowship 2023
  • Sachs Fellowship from the University of Chicago 2000
  • Visiting Professorship at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen 8.11.2021-3.12.2021
  • Summer studentship at CERN (CHORUS neutrino oscillation experiment) 1998
  • Tessella Prize for Software 1996
  • Burroughs Wellcome Fellowship. 2003
  • Member of American Physical Society (APS) present
  • Institute of Physics (IOP) member, Honorary Treasurer of the Ireland branch (2011-2016) present
  • Honorary Treasurer, and TCD representative for the Institute of Physics Ireland (IOPI). I was part of the IOPI committee and gave input towards policy documents for the government and IOPI funded outreach activities throughout Ireland. 2011-2016
  • Proposal reviewer for ERC StG (European Research Council Starting Grant) 2024
  • External examiner for a PhD thesis at the University of Aberystwyth, Wales, UK. 28/5/2020
  • Referee for Physical Review Letter, Nature Scientific Reports, Nature Catalyst, Physical Review E, Soft Matter, Langmuir, Philosophical Magazine, European Physics J. E, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2001-present
  • Proposal reviewer for NWO (Dutch research council) 2023
  • Proposal reviewer for STW (Dutch Technology Foundation), Netherlands 2014