Xiaoyue Wu

Xiaoyue Wu is a PhD student who joined the Meldrum group in 2020 and will be working on studying crystallization process in confinement. She hopes to use nanopipettes to introduce nucleating agents into droplets of inorganic solutions to trigger nucleation. She will also be working on studying colloidal crystallisation.

Before joining the group, she completed her Master of Chemistry degree at the University of Oxford (Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Department), working on measuring the structural forces of colloidal crystals under confinement using the surface force balance. She also completed a summer project on measuring the electrocapillary at the interface between mercury and concentrated electrolyte using the pendant drop method.