Members

Biographical Info

• PhD at UCM
• Juan de la Cierva- formación postdoc

Honors and Awards

Research Interests

In our group we are interested in the development of locomotion strategies for microscopic artificial machines within complex environments. Inspired by nature, specifically by the movement of cells in complex media, we use a synergistic combination of experimental and numerical methods to extract general design rules about their motion.

Relevant/Recent Publications

1. How ice grows from premelting films and water droplets, David N. Sibley, Pablo Llombart, Eva G. Noya, Andrew J. Archer, Luis G. MacDowell (Nat. Comm) [URL]
2. Micelle-directed chiral seeded growth on anisotropic gold nanocrystals, Guillermo González-Rubio, Jesús Mosquera, Vished Kumar, Adrián Pedrazo-Tardajos, Pablo Llombart, Diego M Solís, Ivan Lobato, Eva G Noya, Andrés Guerrero-Martínez, José M Taboada, Fernando Obelleiro, Luis G MacDowell, Sara Bals, Luis M Liz-Marzán. Science (2020) [URL]
3. Surface phase transitions and crystal habits of ice in the atmosphere, Pablo Llombart, Eva G. Noya, Luis G. MacDowell. Science Advances (2020) [URL]
4. Disconnecting symmetry breaking from seeded growth for the reproducible synthesis of high quality gold nanorods, Guillermo González-Rubio, Vished Kumar, Pablo Llombart, Pablo Díaz-Núñez, Eva Bladt, Thomas Altantzis, Sara Bals, Ovidio Peña-Rodríguez, Eva G Noya, Luis G MacDowell, Andrés Guerrero-Martínez, Luis M Liz-Marzán. ACS Nano (2019) [URL]
5. Femtosecond laser reshaping yields gold nanorods with ultranarrow surface plasmon resonances, Guillermo González-Rubio, Pablo Díaz-Núñez, Antonio Rivera, Alejandro Prada, Gloria Tardajos, Jesús González-Izquierdo, Luis Bañares, Pablo Llombart, Luis G Macdowell, Mauricio Alcolea Palafox, Luis M Liz-Marzán, Ovidio Peña-Rodríguez, Andrés Guerrero-Martínez, Science (2016) [URL]
6. Premelting-induced smoothening of the ice-vapor interface, Jorge Benet, Pablo Llombart, Eduardo Sanz, Luis G MacDowell. PRL (2016) [URL]