Dr Radomir Slavchov
BSc, MSc, PhD
Research Group News
August 2024 | ||
 PhD studentship on an important carbon dioxide project22 August 2024PhD Studentship: Solutions for Carbon Capture and Storage - Quadrupolar Solvency and Association Length: 4 year stipend (at £21,237/y) Application deadline: 15 Oct 2022. International fees covered, overseas applicants welcome. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is hoped to provide a major chunk (55% by some estimates) of humanity's effort to deal with … [more] | ||
 Our research on the Hofmeister effect - featured in Langmuir16 August 2024Our research on the specific interactions of ions with fluid interfaces has been featured in one of the top journals in the field, Langmuir. It reviews several years of effort to disentangle the many factors behind the so called Hofmeister effect (click here to read). And it has been highlighted … [more] | ||
May 2024 | ||
Carbon Capture and Storage Hub Projects, a talk by J. Sonke (Shell)13 May 2024We are delighted to invite everyone to the talk given by our collaborator, Johannes Sonke, Shell’s global expert for CCUS materials and Corrosion prediction & control. Hans is going to present for us the current problems around some of the largest-scale CO2-related projects currently underway. When: 21 May, 14:00 … [more] | ||
June 2023 | ||
We are hiring! - sprays & fast cameras1 June 2023We are looking for a KTP associate, together with our partners from Archipelago Technology. The work has a practical aspect and a nice fluid mechanics twist, it might really have impact on environment and the way we print, so please consider applying or send your just-finished PhD student to us. … [more] | ||
January 2023 | ||
 Diesel injector fouling - could it be due to electrokinetic streaming current?3 January 2023Our new paper in Fuel investigates the source of internal injector deposits in diesel injectors - a nasty problem that may be the source of a significant chunk of the soot emissions from diesel cars, and not only - NOx and CO2 emissions are also affected. The nature of the … [more] | ||
November 2022 | ||
 We are looking for a PhD student on an exciting carbon dioxide project!11 November 2022PhD Studentship: Prevention Of Phase-separation Of Corrosive Aqueous Acidic Solution Out Of Liquid CO2 Funding: Available to Home & Overseas Applicants. This studentship is fully funded and includes a 3 year stipend (set at £18,062 for 2022/23) and tuition fees. Background: physical chemistry, chemical thermodynamics, electrostatics (or broadly chemistry, physics, mathematics, chemical … [more] | ||
July 2022 | ||
We are hiring!27 July 2022We are looking for a KTP associate, together with our partners from Archipelago Technology. The work has a practical aspect, it also has a nice fluid mechanics twist, it might really have impact on environment and the way we print, so please consider applying or send your just-finished-PhD student to … [more] | ||
May 2021 | ||
 Colloids & Interfaces Webinar: Gas-phase induced Marangoni flow causes unstable merging of droplets (Peyman Rostami), 19 May 16:00-17:0011 May 2021Gas-phase induced Marangoni flow causes unstable merging of droplets Peyman Rostami Wetting & Surface Tension group at Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden Colloids & Interfaces Webinar 19th May 2021, 16:00-17:00 Keywords: coalescence, mixing, wetting, contact lines, Marangoni flow The merging of droplets plays a key role in … [more] | ||
April 2021 | ||
 An 2021 SEMS Postgraduate Research Excellence Award goes to Boyan Peychev for his research on surface phase transitions!19 April 2021Boyan Peychev got the 2021 SEMS Postgraduate Research Excellence Award in his first year with his first paper in our group, on our theory of the 2D liquid-2D solid phase transitions in fluorinated monolayers at the water|oil inteface. Well done, Boyane! We are sure you'll bring more … [more] | ||
Colloids & Interfaces Webinar: Advances in AFM force measurements (Felix Rico), 28 April 15:00-16:007 April 2021Advances in AFM force measurements Felix Rico Aix-Marseille Universite, CNRS, INSERM, France Engineering Seminar Series, IOB, MRI, and Colloids & Interfaces Webinars 28th April 2021, 15:00-16:00 Advances in tip technology and the speeds applied in AFM force measurements have enabled exploration of protein unfolding and protein-protein interactions not previously possible. With … [more] | ||
March 2021 | ||
The next Colloid & Interface Webinar - 31 March 16:00 Internal flows during droplet coalescence, Thomas Sykes (Oxford)26 March 2021Internal flows during droplet coalescence Thomas Sykes 31 March 2021, 16:00 (online) Keywords: coalescence, mixing, wetting, capillary waves, contact lines, colour high-speed imaging, OpenFOAM, Marangoni flow, colour change reactions. Thomas is a postdoctoral research associate in fluid dynamics in the University of Oxford, working in the group of Alfonso Castrejon-Pita and co-supervised … [more] | ||
Colloid & Interface Webinar on 24 March, 15:00: Formulation engineering principles using processed food as an example by Prof. Eddie Pelan16 March 2021Formulation engineering principles using processed food as an example Prof. Eddie Pelan 24 March 2021, 15:00 (online) Join our webinar » Abstract: I will present a very short description of what the University of Birmingham CDT in Formulation Engineering tries to do. Then I will introduce some generic aspects of (food) … [more] | ||
June 2019 | ||
Looking for a PhD student!6 June 2019If you are finishing your undergraduate studies, and you like charges, surfaces and theory, then consider becoming a PhD student in our group. The question that you will have to answer during your PhD are: - Why is the surface of pure water negatively charged? - What are the forces … [more] | ||
February 2019 | ||
 Featured in Soft Matter: measuring the barrier adsorption/desorption rate of alohols on water18 February 2019The rate of adsorption/desorption of small molecules is generally assumed to proceed under diffusion control; the rate of the flip-flop like attachment/detachment is considered extremely fast. Well guess what? Even molecules as small as decanol have to overcome a significant barrier, tens of kJ/mol, to desorb. Morover, … [more] | ||