Research Associate
My research explores different ways of making colourful materials from sustainable building blocks. I am fascinated by the chiral colloidal self-assembly of cellulose nanocrystals and how it can be used to create large-scale films with unique optical properties.
I did my undergraduate studies in Natural Sciences (Physics and Physical Chemistry) at University College London and the California Institute of Technology, and came to Cambridge as part of the NanoDTC MRes+PhD programme.
Publications
Three-dimensional operando optical imaging of particle and electrolyte heterogeneities inside Li-ion batteries
– Nature Nanotechnology
(2023)
18,
1185
(doi: 10.1038/s41565-023-01466-4)
Bio-inspired Photonic Materials from Cellulose: Fabrication, Optical Analysis and Applications
– Accounts of Materials Research
(2023)
4,
522
(doi: 10.1021/accountsmr.3c00019)
Chiral Se Nanobrooms with Wavelength and Polarization Sensitive Scattering
– Advanced Functional Materials
(2023)
33,
(doi: 10.1002/adfm.202300927)
Structurally Colored Radiative Cooling Cellulosic Films
– Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
(2022)
9,
2202061
(doi: 10.1002/advs.202202061)
Revealing the Structural Coloration of Self-Assembled Chitin Nanocrystal Films.
– Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
(2022)
34,
e2203300
(doi: 10.1002/adma.202203300)
Polysaccharide metabolism regulates structural colour in bacterial colonies.
– J R Soc Interface
(2022)
19,
505
(doi: 10.1098/rsif.2022.0181)
Chiral self-assembly of cellulose nanocrystals is driven by crystallite bundles.
– Nat Commun
(2022)
13,
2657
(doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-30226-6)
Hyperspectral Imaging of Photonic Cellulose Nanocrystal Films: Structure of Local Defects and Implications for Self-Assembly Pathways
– ACS Nano
(2020)
14,
15361
(doi: 10.1021/acsnano.0c05785)
Bio-inspired optics: General discussion
– Faraday Discussions
(2020)
223,
183
(doi: 10.1039/D0FD90014A)
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