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(Updated: 30th
November 1999)
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Self Assembly
Group
Researchers:
- Stephen Hyde
(theory and experiments)
- David Williams
(theory)
- Barry Ninham
(theory and experiments)
- Tim Senden
(experiments)
- Vince Craig
(experiments)
- Stuart Ramsden
(computation, visualisation)
Current and Recent
Visitors and
Students:
- Nick
Welham
- Shunsuke Watanabe
(KAO Corp. Japan)
- Maurizio Olla
(Cagliari, Italy)
- Ian ?
(Hons.)
- Christophe Oguey
(Cergy-Pontoise, France)
Former
Students:
- Ian Barnes
(finished 1990)
- Andrew Fogden
(1991)
- Ewa Radlinska
(1992)
- Kathryn McGrath
(1994)
- Robert Corkery
(1998)
- Joanne Bright
(1999)
The group conducts
experimental and theoretical studies of self-assembly of
soft molecular materials, including lyotropic liquid
crystals, surfactants, lipids and soaps in water
(STH,
BWN)
and copolymers (STH,
DRW).
That work includes investigations of molecular self-assembly
in bulk, and assembly in confined dimensions, such as
polymer-hard substrate systems. We are also interested in
hard atomic crystal frameworks, such as zeolites, and
mesoporous inorganic materials, and hybrid organic/inorganic
materials, such as biominerals.
Some of this work
overlaps, and is a part of, the wider Mesoscale
research effort,
particularly the network modelling.
Recent and current
projects include:
- Effect of degassing
on self-assembly and the hydrophobic interaction
(BWN,
VSC)
- Evolution of
microstructure in cubic phases and microemulsions of
cationic surfactants in water and oils (STH,
BWN)
- Phase behaviour and
mesoporous derivatives of metal carboylate soaps
(STH,
Corkery)
- Growth and structure
of the calcite skeleton of sea-urchins (STH
with Fiona Meldrum)
- Theoretical modelling
of polycontinuous mesophases (STH,
Christophe Oguey, Stu Ramsden)
- Chiral frameworks
(STH,
Stu Ramsden)
- Topological
characterisation of nets (STH)
-David W to add projects
of interest
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