Research Teams

  • Electrochemical sensor characterisation; process modelling batteries

  • Molecular simulations, solids, soft matter & liquids; Speciality biomolecules, organics

  • Corrosion processes (nuclear); steels and graphite

  • Material modelling (FEA, FDM, FUM); biomaterials; mechanical characterisation

  • Electronic structure calculation (quantum Monte Carlo calculation in particular); applications in 2D, semi-conductors, high pressure, physics etc

  • Molecular structural & dynamic characterisation of solids; molecular level modelling of solids (structure, geometry, disorder)

  • Optical Spectroscopy; ultra-high magnetic fields

  • X-ray scattering; pair distribution function; atomic structure modelling (distortion, disorder, nanostructure); big-data approach

  • Single molecule and atomic resolution imaging and characterisation; UHV growth functional molecular structures

  • Electronic structure simulation; nuclear materials; materials simulation, structural/characterisation energetics

  • Multi-scale modelling of surfaces and interfaces between inorganic/organic materials, including electron and phonon transport.

  • 2D materials, modelling, mesoscopic, electronic transport and spectroscopy modelling (various)

  • Expertise in radiation damage modelling in semiconductors

  • Dr Samuel Murphy

    Atomistic modelling, electronic structure, molecular mechanics; nuclear materials, radiation damage, defects

  • Nanoscale surface roughness

  • Nanoscale scanning probe microscopy; solid/liquid interfaces

  • Electrochemistry - analytical methods both electrochemical and traditional; thermodynamics, kinetics, characterisation of redox molecules and redox active surfaces

  • Computational methodologies (DFT) for structural generation, analysis and characterisation of porous materials; surface area, gas adsorption

  • Modelling of laminated composite aircraft wing panels; failure damage

  • Nanoscale characterisation of materials surfaces, mechanical, thermal, electrical, thermoelectrical; time domain/dynamic US-MSl; 3D C 1?m -1?m depth

  • Scanning probe microscopy

  • 2D materials, optoelectronics

  • Processing graphene for dispersion in concrete

  • Copolymerisation: biocompatible and biodegradable polyesters for biomedical applications

  • Professor Corina Sas

    Interface & interaction services; user experience; material qualities; materials models & technologies

  • Professor Rob Short

    Apply surfaces; biology

  • Additive manufacturing; micro engineering

  • Fabrication and testing of ultra-thin films for application in solar cells; measurement of time-resolved fluorescence (spectroscopy and microscopy)

  • Molecular synthesis; molecular receptors, interlocked molecules

  • Biomorphic sensors

  • Dr Verena Gortz

    Thin film actuators based on liquid crystal elastomers

  • Transparent electronics - growing n-type transistors by solution processing

  • Professor Roger Pickup

    Microbiology; molecular ecology re. Human pathogens, antimicrobial surface & treatments