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1 September 2025

Report on the 1st webinar of the SoftComp series 2025 – Prof. Dr. Lisa Manning

On July 3rd, 2025, Prof. Dr. Lisa Manning, Syracuse Univ., USA, was the first speaker in the SoftComp webinar series 2025. She presented a very interesting

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25 June 2025

SoftComp webinar series 2025

Novel experiment opens up possibility of studying collective dynamics providing insight for better drug... (Read more)

10 February 2025

Fig. 2. Schematic illustration of the blending of humins and PLA, the production of humins from sugar-based feedstocks, and the production of PLA from sugar cane crop residues. Copyright: Dilhan Kandemir. All rights reserved.

10 February 2025

Upcycling Humins into Valuable Materials

Advancing sustainable materials development: Researchers from SoftComp partner KU Leuven, Belgium, have introduced a novel strategy to upcycle humins, a major by-product of biorefineries, into new materials , advancing materials development using sustainable... (Read more)

6 February 2025

Figure 1: Aspect ratio is a crucial network building block property, defining network formation, architecture, and mechanics in synthetic and living systems. (Left) Schematic representation of the aspect ratios (AR) of protein L polyprotein constructs and fibrin proto-fibers. (Middle) A schematic representation of the two dominated formation regimes: translation diffusion limited (TDL) where building blocks can only interact by translating their centre of mass; and rotationally diffusion limited (RDL) where building blocks are able to interact purely via rotation about their centre of mass. (Right) The fitted increase in mechanical rigidity as a function of aspect ratio with inserted schematics showing the change in structural topology as the system transitions from TDL to RDL formation above the critical aspect ratio, ARc. Copyright: Image partly published in Hughes M. D. G. et al., Nat. Commun. 14, 5593 (2023) under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

6 February 2025

Biology Exploits Geometry

Impact of Aspect Ratio on Protein Network Assembly: Scientists at SoftComp partner University of Leeds and STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK, have made an exciting discovery about the functional advantages of high aspect... (Read more)