Want to apply physics principles to protect delicate living cells?

The Challenge: We want to use robots to handle plant cells for high-throughput experiments, but robotic pipettes are too rough—they're like having a bulldozer perform surgery!

Your Physics-Bio Solution: Test whether non-Newtonian fluids (think liquid armor that gets thicker when hit) can protect fragile plant cells from robotic handling while maintaining experimental accuracy.

What You'll Explore:

Fluid dynamics: How different liquids behave under robotic stress

Cell survival analysis: Measure which conditions keep cells healthiest

Robotic automation: Work with cutting-edge laboratory robotics

Materials science: Test various non-Newtonian fluid formulations

High-throughput optimization: Scale up from single cells to hundreds

The Innovation: Your liquid armor system could enable automated plant biotechnology experiments impossible to do by hand.

Perfect for students interested in: Physics applications, robotics, materials science, or interdisciplinary problem-solving, most suitable for master or honours.