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Dr P.S. CleggSchool 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)
- 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
- Confocal microscopy and x-ray scattering
Selected Recent Publications (cond-mat manuscripts)
- Dynamics of a colloid-stabilized cream
Phys. Rev. E 79, 011405 (2009)
E.M. Herzig, A. Robert, D.D. van 't Zand, L. Cipelletti, P.N. Pusey and P.S. Clegg - 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) - High-resolution x-ray study of the nematic - smectic-A and smectic-A - smectic-C transitions in liquid crystal aerosil gels
P.S. Clegg, R.J. Birgeneau, S. Park, C.W. Garland, G.S. Iannacchione, R.L. Leheny and M.E. Neubert
Phys. Rev. E 68, 031706 (2003) - Epitaxial Ce and the magnetism of single-crystal Ce/Nd superlattices
P.S. Clegg, J.P. Goff, G.J. McIntyre, R.C.C. Ward and M.R. Wells
Phys. Rev. B 67, 174414 (2003)
Research Links
- New! IoP one day meeting: Complex Fluid-Fluid Interfaces (CFFI10) 25th February 2010
- Marie Curie-Initial Training Network - Physics of Complex Colloids: Equilibrium and Driven 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
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.
Current teaching