School of Physical Sciences

Members

Permanent Academics

Dr. M. Alfredsson [Research]
  • Quantum-mechanical modelling of clusters, surfaces and solids Inter-atomic potential calculations of defects and grain-boundaries High pressure and temperature simulations H-bonding
Dr. D.C. Arnold    
Dr. T. Aste  
  • Modeling complex structures and packings
  • Tomography studies of large 3D structures
Dr. R.E. Benfield [Research]
  • structure and bonding of metal clusters and nanowires
  • ordered arrays of metal nanowires
  • nanoparticles of cobalt
Dr. S.C. Biagini [Research]
  • Ring-opening metathesis polymerisations
  • Complex monomer syntheses
  • Block copolymers, self-assembly, properties and applications
  • Nuclear medicine
  • Unnatural amino acid and peptide syntheses
  • Radiolabelling
  • Nanoparticles
  • Surface modifications on silica magnetite
Prof. A.V. Chadwick [Research]
  • Defects and diffusion solids, including ionic, molecular and polymeric materials
  • Electrical transport in polar solids
  • Solid electrolytes, (superionic or fast-ion conductors)
  • Nanocystalline materials
  • Structural methods, including X-ray absorption fine-structure (XAFS) spectroscopy and NMR
  • Chemical sensor development
  • Computer modelling of solids
Dr. S.A. Corr    
Dr. S.J. Holder [Research]
  • Block copolymer synthesis and design
  • Differential scanning calorimetry
  • Block copolymer properties and applications
  • Polysilane syntheses and properties
  • Helical and chiral polymers
  • Functional organic materials
Prof. R. J. Newport [Research]
  • sol-gel preparation of oxide materials
  • bioactive materials/biomaterials
  • structural characterisation of glasses and sol-gel materials
  • X-ray and neutron diffraction
  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy (including EXAFS and XANES)
  • development of neutron and X-ray scattering instruments at central facilities
Dr. G. Mountjoy [Research]
  • characterising atomic structure of novel disordered materials
  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy, and X-ray and neutron diffraction
  • analysing distribution functions of amorphous structures
  • reverse Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics modelling
Dr. J. Quintanilla [Research Blog]  
Prof. P. Strange [Research]
  • Relativistic Quantum Theory
  • Relativistic Effects in Materials
  • Rare Earth Materials
  • Atmospheric Optics
  • Analytic Number Theory
Dr. M.J. Went [Research]
  • chemistry of coordinated alkynes
  • new chelating and macrocyclic ligands with phosphine, thioether and ether donor groups
  • synthesis of new radiopharmaceuticals
  • forensic analysis

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Last Updated: 01/05/2012