Matilda Backholm
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
T304 Dept. Applied Physics
Full researcher profile
https://research.aalto.fi/...
Email
[email protected]
Phone number
+358503087488
Honors and awards
Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Grant
Granted funding (personal grants)
Living, Fluid, & Soft Matter
Jan 2017
The Ruth and Nils-Erik Stenbäck Prize for career accomplishments in science
Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career
Living, Fluid, & Soft Matter
Jan 2017
Finnish Academy of Science and Letters Väisälä Starting Grant
Granted funding (personal grants)
Living, Fluid, & Soft Matter
Jan 2023
Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation grant
Granted funding (personal grants)
Living, Fluid, & Soft Matter
Jan 2023
Research Council of Finland Research Fellowship
Granted funding (personal grants)
Living, Fluid, & Soft Matter
Jan 2023
ERC StG
Granted funding (personal grants)
Living, Fluid, & Soft Matter
Jan 2023
Research groups
- Living, Fluid, & Soft Matter, Assistant Professor
Publications
Toward vanishing droplet friction on repellent surfaces
Matilda Backholm, Tytti Kärki, Heikki Nurmi, Maja Vuckovac, Valtteri Turkki, Sakari Lepikko, Ville Jokinen, David Quéré, Jaakko Timonen, Robin Ras
2024
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Droplet Friction on Superhydrophobic Surfaces Scales With Liquid-Solid Contact Fraction
Sakari Lepikko, Valtteri Turkki, Tomi Koskinen, Ramesh Raju, Ville Jokinen, Mariia S. Kiseleva, Samuel Rantataro, Jaakko V.I. Timonen, Matilda Backholm, Ilkka Tittonen, Robin H.A. Ras
2024
Small
Droplet slipperiness despite surface heterogeneity at molecular scale
Sakari Lepikko, Ygor Morais Jaques, Muhammad Junaid, Matilda Backholm, Jouko Lahtinen, Jaakko Julin, Ville Jokinen, Timo Sajavaara, Maria Sammalkorpi, Adam Foster, Robin Ras
2024
Nature Chemistry
Light-triggered Time-Programmed Self-adhesion in Low-Hysteresis Hydrogels
Henri Savolainen, Matilda Backholm, Olli Ikkala, Hang Zhang
2024
ACS Applied Polymer Materials
Probing surface wetting across multiple force, length and time scales
Dan Daniel, Maja Vuckovac, Matilda Backholm, Mika Latikka, Rahul Karyappa, Xue Qi Koh, Jaakko V.I. Timonen, Nikodem Tomczak, Robin H.A. Ras
2023
Communications Physics
Long-term stability of aerophilic metallic surfaces underwater
Alexander B. Tesler, Stefan Kolle, Lucia H. Prado, Ingo Thievessen, David Böhringer, Matilda Backholm, Bhuvaneshwari Karunakaran, Heikki A. Nurmi, Mika Latikka, Lena Fischer, Shane Stafslien, Zoran M. Cenev, Jaakko V.I. Timonen, Mark Bruns, Anca Mazare, Ulrich Lohbauer, Sannakaisa Virtanen, Ben Fabry, Patrik Schmuki, Robin H.A. Ras, Joanna Aizenberg, Wolfgang H. Goldmann
2023
Nature Materials
Force-Based Wetting Characterization of Stochastic Superhydrophobic Coatings at Nanonewton Sensitivity
Matti J. Hokkanen, Matilda Backholm, Maja Vuckovac, Quan Zhou, Robin H.A. Ras
2021
Advanced Materials
Water droplet friction and rolling dynamics on superhydrophobic surfaces
Matilda Backholm, Daniel Molpeceres, Maja Vuckovac, Heikki Nurmi, Matti Hokkanen, Ville Jokinen, Jaakko Timonen, Robin Ras
2020
Communications Materials
Ferrofluid Microdroplet Splitting for Population-Based Microfluidics and Interfacial Tensiometry
Mika Latikka, Matilda Backholm, Avijit Baidya, Alberto Ballesio, Amandine Serve, Grégory Beaune, Jaakko V.I. Timonen, Thalappil Pradeep, Robin H.A. Ras
2020
Advanced Science
Viscosity-enhanced droplet motion in sealed superhydrophobic capillaries
Maja Vuckovac, Matilda Backholm, Jaakko V.I. Timonen, Robin H.A. Ras
2020
Science Advances
Micropipette force sensors for in vivo force measurements on single cells and multicellular microorganisms
Matilda Backholm, Oliver Bäumchen
2019
Nature Protocols
Designed inorganic porous nanovector with controlled release and MRI features for safe administration of doxorubicin
Simo Näkki, Julie T.W. Wang, Jianwei Wu, Li Fan, Jimi Rantanen, Tuomo Nissinen, Mikko I. Kettunen, Matilda Backholm, Robin H.A. Ras, Khuloud T. Al-Jamal, Vesa Pekka Lehto, Wujun Xu
2019
International Journal of Pharmaceutics
Wetting of ferrofluids
Mika Latikka, Matilda Backholm, Jaakko V.I. Timonen, Robin H.A. Ras
2018
Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science
Absence of single critical dose for the amorphization of quartz under ion irradiation
S. Zhang, O. H. Pakarinen, M. Backholm, F. Djurabekova, K. Nordlund, J. Keinonen, T. S. Wang
2018
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
Oscillating Ferrofluid Droplet Microrheology of Liquid-Immersed Sessile Droplets
Matilda Backholm, Maja Vuckovac, Jan Schreier, Mika Latikka, Michael Hummel, Markus B. Linder, Robin H.A. Ras
2017
Langmuir
Slippery and never wet
Matilda Backholm, Jaakko V.I. Timonen, Robin H.A. Ras
2017
Europhysics News
Partitioning of caffeine in lipid bilayers reduces membrane fluidity and increases membrane thickness
Adree Khondker, Alexander Dhaliwal, Richard J. Alsop, Jennifer Tang, Matilda Backholm, An Chang Shi, Maikel C. Rheinstädter
2017
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Cross-Linked Hydrogels Formed through Diels-Alder Coupling of Furan- and Maleimide-Modified Poly(methyl vinyl ether-alt-maleic acid)
S. Alison Stewart, Matilda Backholm, Nicholas A. D. Burke, Harald D. H. Stoever
2016
Langmuir
Amyloid-beta(25-35) peptides aggregate into cross-beta sheets in unsaturated anionic lipid membranes at high peptide concentrations
J. Tang, R. J. Alsop, M. Backholm, H. Dies, A. C. Shi, M. C. Rheinstadter
2016
Soft Matter
The effects of viscosity on the undulatory swimming dynamics of C. elegans
M. Backholm, A. K. S. Kasper, R. D. Schulman, W. S. Ryu, K. Dalnoki-Veress
2015
PHYSICS OF FLUIDS
The nematode C. elegans as a complex viscoelastic fluid
Matilda Backholm, William S. Ryu, Kari Dalnoki-Veress
2015
European Physical Journal E
Capillary levelling of a cylindrical hole in a viscous film
Matilda Backholm, Michael Benzaquen, Thomas Salez, Elie Raphael, Kari Dalnoki-Veress
2014
Soft Matter
Tangling of Tethered Swimmers: Interactions between Two Nematodes
Matilda Backholm, Rafael D. Schulman, William S. Ryu, Kari Dalnoki-Veress
2014
Physical Review Letters
Direct Measurements of Drag Forces in C. elegans Crawling Locomotion
Yegor Rabets, Matilda Backholm, Kari Dalnoki-Veress, William S. Ryu
2014
Biophysical Journal
Dynamic force patterns of an undulatory microswimmer
Rafael D. Schulman, Matilda Backholm, William S. Ryu, Kari Dalnoki-Veress
2014
Physical Review E
Undulatory microswimming near solid boundaries
R. D. Schulman, M. Backholm, W. S. Ryu, K. Dalnoki-Veress
2014
PHYSICS OF FLUIDS
Roughness scaling in titanium thin films: A three-dimensional molecular dynamics study of rotational and static glancing angle deposition
Matilda Backholm, Morten Foss, Kai Nordlund
2013
Applied Surface Science
Viscoelastic properties of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, a self-similar, shear-thinning worm
Matilda Backholm, William S. Ryu, Kari Dalnoki-Veress
2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Relaxation and intermediate asymptotics of a rectangular trench in a viscous film
Oliver Baeumchen, Michael Benzaquen, Thomas Salez, Joshua D. McGraw, Matilda Backholm, Paul Fowler, Elie Raphael, Kari Dalnoki-Veress
2013
Physical Review E
Roughness of glancing angle deposited titanium thin films: an experimental and computational study
Matilda Backholm, Morten Foss, Kai Nordlund
2012
Nanotechnology
Amorphization of alpha-quartz and comparative study of defects in amorphized quartz and Si nanocrystals embedded in amorphous silica
Flyura Djurabekova, Matilda Backholm, Marie Backman, Olli H. Pakarinen, Juhani Keinonen, Kai Nordlund, Tzu-Ray Shan, Bryce D. Devine, Susan B. Sinnott
2010
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