Academic Background

BA Cantab 1983 (Natural Sciences at Clare College); DPhil 1988 (St. John’s College, Oxford); Research Lecturer / Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford 1986-1990; University Lecturer in the Department of Physics 1990-; Fellow of Magdalen College (Tutor, then Supernumerary Fellow) 1992-.

Research Interests

Molecular structures and machinery made by self-assembly, using synthetic oligonucleotides as building material. Photonic crystals (microstructured optical materials) and the development of techniques for three-dimensional optical fabrication.

Selected Publications

S. J. Green, J. Bath, and A. J. Turberfield Coordinated chemomechanical cycles: a mechanism for autonomous molecular motion Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 238101 (2008)

D. Y. Zhang, A. J. Turberfield, B. Yurke and E. Winfree Engineering entropy-driven reactions and networks catalyzed by DNA Science 318, 1121-1125 (2007)

J. Bath and A. J. Turberfield DNA nanomachines Nature Nanotech. 2, 275-284 (2007)

Three-dimensional optical lithography for photonic microstructures J. Scrimgeour, D. N. Sharp, C. F. Blanford, O. M. Roche, R. G. Denning and A. J. Turberfield Adv. Mater. 18, 1557-1560 (2006).

R. P. Goodman, I. A. T. Schaap , C. F Tardin, C. M. Erben, R.M. Berry, C. F. Schmidt and A. J. Turberfield Rapid chiral assembly of rigid DNA building blocks for molecular nanofabrication Science 310, 1661-1665 (2005)

P. Yin, H. Yan, X. G. Daniell, A. J. Turberfield and J. H. Reif A unidirectional DNA walker that moves autonomously along a track Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 43, 4906-4911 (2004)

A. J. Turberfield, J. C. Mitchell, B. Yurke, A. P. Mills, Jr., M. I. Blakey and F. C. Simmel DNA Fuel for Free-Running Nanomachines Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 118102 (2003)

B. Yurke, A.J. Turberfield, A.P. Mills, Jr., F.C. Simmel and J.L. Neumann A DNA-fuelled molecular machine made of DNA Nature 406, 605-608 (2000)

M. Campbell, D. N. Sharp, M. T. Harrison, R. G. Denning and A. J. Turberfield Fabrication of photonic crystals for the visible spectrum by holographic lithography Nature 404, 53-56 (2000)

H. D. M. Davies, J. C. Harris, J. F. Ryan and A. J. Turberfield Spin and Charge Density Excitations and the Collapse of the Fractional Quantum Hall State at =1/3 Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 4095-4098 (1997)

A. J. Turberfield, S. R. Haynes, P. A. Wright, R. A. Ford, R. G. Clark, J. F. Ryan, C. T. Foxon and J. J. Harris Optical Detection of the Integer and Fractional Quantum Hall Effects in GaAs at milliKelvin Temperatures Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 637-640 (1990)

J. F. Ryan, R. A. Taylor, A. J. Turberfield, A. Maciel, J. M. Worlock, A. C. Gossard and W. Wiegmann Time-Resolved Photoluminescence of Two-Dimensional Hot Carriers in GaAs-GaAlAs Heterostructures Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1841-1844 (1984)