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Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Department of Physics
 

Biography

Bachelor in Theoretical Physics from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Research

My research is focused on applying modern statistical mechanics to describe transport, mechanical response and thermal properties in various soft matter systems relevant for new sustainable technologies. Recently I produced an analytical model to describe the stochastic breakup and stability of colloidal clusters in shear flow. This has a diverse array of applications, ranging from protein aggregation studies to water-based eco-compatible polymer materials processing. Currently I am researching charge carrier transport in organic semiconductors. I am particularly interested in investigating the intricacies of polycrystalline domain grain boundaries. Understanding such phenomena is vital to the pursuit for cheap, efficient, polymer-based solar cells.

    Publications

    Key publications: 
      1. B. O. Conchuir, Y. M. Harshe, M. Lattuada and A. Zaccone; 'Analytical Model of Fractal Aggregate Stability and Restructuring in Shear Flows', Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 53, 9109, (2014).

         

      2. A. S. Moussa, M. Lattuada, B. Ó Conchúir, A. Zaccone, M. Morbidelli and M. Soos; 'Flow-Induced Aggregation and Breakup of Particle Clusters Controlled by Surface Nanoroughness', Langmuir 29, 14386, (2013).

         

      3. B. Ó Conchúir and A. Zaccone; 'Mechanism of flow-induced biomolecular and colloidal aggregate breakup', Phys. Rev. E 87, 032310, (2013).

         

      4. R.V. Hügli, G. Duff, B. O'Conchuir, E. Mengotti, L.J. Heyderman, A. Fraile Rodriguez, F. Nolting and H.-B. Braun; 'Artifical kagome spin ice: dimensional reduction, avalanche control and emergent magnetic monopoles', Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A 370 Iss. 1989, 5768, (2012).

         

      5. R.V. Hügli, G. Duff, B. O'Conchuir, E. Mengotti, L.J. Heyderman, A. Fraile Rodriguez, F. Nolting and H.-B. Braun; 'Emergent magnetic monopoles, disorder and avalanches in artificial spin ice', J. Appl. Phys. 111, 7, (2012).

         

    Winton Scholar
    Supervisor: Dr Alessio Zaccone
    Theory of Condensed Matter Group
    Mr Breanndán  Ó Conchúir

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