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Dr P.S. Clegg
School of Physics & Astronomy (Room 2614)
James Clerk Maxwell Building
University of Edinburgh
Mayfield Road
Edinburgh EH9 3JZ
UK

paul.clegg@ed.ac.uk
tel.: +44 131 650 5295
fax.: +44 131 650 5902

Research Interests (see also Soft-matter physics group and Linkedin page)

• Self-assembly of colloids at interfaces
• Physics of colloids and nanoparticles dispersed in complex fluids
• Soft composite materials - combining particles, binary fluids, surfactants, liquid crystals, polymers
• Application of soft materials in food, personal care products, energy technologies, ...

Selected Recent Publications (cond-mat manuscripts)

1. Particle-stabilized oscillating diver: a self-assembled responsive capsule
   Soft Matter 7, 7969 (2011)
   J.W. Tavacoli, J.H.J. Thijssen and P.S. Clegg
   
2. Novel, robust and versatile bijels of nitromethane, ethanediol and colloidal silica: capsules, sub-ten-micron domains and mechanical properties
   Adv. Funct. Mater. 21, 2020 (2011)
   J.W. Tavacoli, J.H.J. Thijssen, A.B. Schofield and P.S. Clegg
   
3. Colloidal gels assembled via a temporary interfacial scaffold
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 255502 (2009)
   E. Sanz, K.A. White, P.S. Clegg and M.E. Cates
   
4. Bicontinuous emulsions stabilized solely by colloidal particles
   E.M. Herzig, K.A. White, A.B. Schofield, W.C.K. Poon and P.S. Clegg
   Nature Materials 6, 966 (2007)
   

Research Links

• EU Training Network - Physics of Complex Colloids: ITN-Comploids
• Collaborative Optical Spectroscopy, Micromanipulation and Imaging Centre: COSMIC
• Andrew Schofield's particles: available here
• European Synchrotron Radiation Facility: ESRF
• EU Network of Excellence on Soft Matter Composites: SoftComp
• Scottish Doctoral Training Centre in Condensed Matter Physics: CM-DTC
• Soft matter world: web magazine

Bijel: the movie - Animated microscopy images from the surface into the centre of a 1 mm thick bijel. Depth into the bijel changes with each successive frame. The images are 410 microns across and were captured within days of the bijel being created.

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Contact: Paul Clegg paul.clegg@ed.ac.uk

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