MCCM2021 – It’s back
We are pleased to announce the fourth Midlands Computational Chemistry Meeting, which will be held online over two half-days on the 6th and 7th of January 2021. Following on from the previous meetings, this […]
A well deserved award
I am very pleased to see that my mentor and long term collaborator Alex Shluger has been awarded the David Tabor medal by the Institute of Physics “… for the development of […]
Article in Additive Manufacturing on high-performance plastics
Our article “Understanding mechanical properties in fused filament fabraction of polyether-ether-ketone” has now been published in Additive Manufacturing. This work is in collaboration with the University of Nottingham. Understanding mechanical properties in […]
Physics Seminar: Dr Elena Patyukova
Date: Wednesday 21st of October 2020, 13:30.Location: Online (MS Teams meeting). ‘Phase behavior of correlated copolymers’ by Dr Elena Patyukova, Department of Chemistry, Durham University, Durham, UK. Abstract: Poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) is a […]
“Rheology of Food” BSR’s Non-Newtonian Club Meeting
On Thursday 17th of September, 2020, Claire attended the British Society of Rheology’s Non Newtonian Club on “Rheology of Food”. The Non-Newtonian Club is an informal rheology discussion group that provides one-day […]
Article in Physical Review Letters on the micro-emulsion channel in block-copolymer homopolymer blends
Our paper “Instability of the Microemulsion Channel in Block Copolymer-Homopolymer Blends” has now been published in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters and is available here. The work is a collaboration between […]
Polymer Additive Manufacturing Workshop
On 25-26th August 2020, Claire participated in a Momentum Initiative Workshopsponsored by the State of Technology Awareness Initiative, Los Alamos National Laboratory: “Emerging materials and process development for polymer/non-metal additive manufacturing“. Claire […]
Online minisymposium on “Hamiltonian Lattice Dynamics” originally planned as part of SIAM Conference NWCS20
Originally planned as part of the conference SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures (NWCS20), in Bremen, Germany and rescheduled with lectures delivered virtually on the 28-29th July 2020. Dr. Helen […]
1st online Materials Chemistry Consortium
Yesterday Matt Watkins and Chris Dickens attended the first fully online Materials Chemistry Consortium meeting where a substantial chunk of the UKS national supercomputing time is allocated. Up to 150 attendees were […]
Seminar on the interactions between gravitational waves and planetary rings
On June 10th Dr Phil Sutton presented his ongoing work on the interactions between gravitational waves and planetary rings. It was discussed that orbital resonances between objects in astrophysical systems is commonplace, […]
