Dr Radomir Slavchov
BSc, MSc, PhD

 

Research Group News

June 2023

We are hiring! - sprays & fast cameras

1 June 2023

We 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

Hypothetical mechanism of internal diesel injector deposits formation

Diesel injector fouling - could it be due to electrokinetic streaming current?

3 January 2023

Our 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

Association of polar molecules in a quadrupolar liquid - carbon dioxide

We are looking for a PhD student on an exciting carbon dioxide project!

11 November 2022

PhD 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 2022

We 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

Fingering instability upon merging

Colloids & Interfaces Webinar: Gas-phase induced Marangoni flow causes unstable merging of droplets (Peyman Rostami), 19 May 16:00-17:00

11 May 2021

Gas-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

Peychev's model of the 2D melting of fluorinated monolayers.

An 2021 SEMS Postgraduate Research Excellence Award goes to Boyan Peychev for his research on surface phase transitions!

19 April 2021

Boyan 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 15:00-16:00

7 April 2021

Advances 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 2021

Internal 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 Pelan

16 March 2021

Formulation 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 2019

If 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: decanol and dodecanol desorb from the surface of water following mixed barrier–diffusion kinetics.

Featured in Soft Matter: measuring the barrier adsorption/desorption rate of alohols on water

18 February 2019

The 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]