Multi-scale and Multi-phase Systems
Our mission
To measure, understand and predict the properties of interfaces, complex fluids and crystals, with a view to improving process design and product formulation.
A combination of experiments, computer modelling and theory are applied to measure and predict the properties of a variety of materials of particular relevance to the chemical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food industries. The research bridges a huge range of length and time scales, from the detailed study of molecules adsorbed on surfaces and crystallisation processes, through nano-scale studies on polymers, proteins and liquid crystals, to macroscopic studies of foams and the mixing processes in chemical reactor vessels. Particular strengths of the group are the close collaboration of the experimentalists and theoreticians within the group and the understandidng of materials at both molecular and macroscopic levels: these strengths lead to highly original, cutting-edge research.