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We aim to understand relationships between processing, structure and function in materials constructed from ‘soft building blocks‘. These relationships will help us design the functional materials required for a rapidly changing world.
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Things we are interested in:

  • Polymers: Blends, Solutions, Thermodynamics, Conformation, Dynamics
  • Surfactants: Self-Assembly, Interfacial Behaviour
  • Hydrogels: Mesostructure, Mechanical Behaviour, Transport Phenomena, Swelling
  • Droplets: Sprays, Internal Flows, Drying
  • Small-Angle Scattering (X-ray and Neutron)
  • Rheology
  • Microfluidics
  • Acoustic Levitation

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April 2023: Winnie & family get settled in Liverpool
May 2023: Imaging equipment arrives – helps visualise 3D printing
June 2023: Bite Sized Soft Matter demo (Future Food Live) @ Great Exhibition Road Festival
July 2023: First materials to be made in the lab – hydrogel films
July 2023: Will helps a team from Birmingham & Bath to study atmospheric aerosols with levitation and small-angle neutron scattering.

research highlight

We resolve the thermodynamics of a highly interacting and challenging polymer blend with TOF-SANS. Temperature jump experiments within the single phase region yield near equilibrium profiles, described by the RPA, at intermediate temperatures allowing rapid and robust determination of blend interaction parameter and its temperature dependence.

Macromolecules 2023, 56, 14, 5619–5627

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