Welcome to Prof. Linda Hirst's group home page

Our research group specializes in experimental soft matter physics and biophysics. We are a member of the physics and chemistry graduate group at The University of California Merced in the School of Natural Sciences.

Prof. Hirst is the founder and editor of SoftMatterWorld.org, a new educational web-site all about soft matter science.

• The web-site was founded in January 2008 and we are currently adding lots of new content to include on-line text books, slide shows, movies, research articles, book reviews and much more.
• Check out the "global research network" where you can discover soft matter research groups around the world.
• Search for internships and jobs on the Noticeboard.

Prof. Hirst can be found in the Engineering and Science I building, room 362.

 (209) 228-4569,
  lhirst@ucmerced.edu

Recent News

"The effects of fluorescent probes on model membranes : photo-induced lipid sorting and soft structure formation"
L.S. Hirst and J. Yuan, Liquid Crystals
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02678290902815244 ( 2009)

"Molecular dynamics simulation of F-actin reveals the role of cross-linkers in semi-flexible assembly"
L. T. Nguyen, W. Yang, Q. Wang and L.S. Hirst, Soft Matter (2009) DOI: 10.1039/b817927a

“Studying domain formation in ternary lipid mixtures with solution synchrotron x-ray diffraction”
J. Yuan, A. Kiss, Y. Pramudya, L. T. Nguyen and L.S. Hirst, (2009) http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.79.031924

"Lipid bilayer discs and banded tubules: photo-induced lipid sorting in ternary mixtures”
J. Yuan, S. Hira, G. Strouse and L.S. Hirst, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130 (6), 2067 -2072, (2008)