Stephen Walley

Name:	Stephen Walley
Affiliation:	Physics
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• Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

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• Challenges and opportunities in understanding the dynamic behaviour of engineering materials under complex loading paths
• Nanoscale thermodynamics
• Unlocking new materials for the hydrogen economy
• In-process monitoring and metal additive manufacturing: from scientific insight to real-time digital quality assurance
• Using nuclear imaging, numerical simulation, and lightweight AI to optimise industrial systems
• A retelling of the Quantum Mechanics story
• Prediction and its application to mechanical properties
• Can we design fatigue-resistant alloys?
• The mechanical properties of wood at high rates of strain
• On the beamline: Studying surfaces at a 3rd generation synchrotron facility
• Rotational orientation effects in gas-surface collisions
• Sample geometry for shear testing with a UTM
• Study of RAM Vessel Diameter on Mixing Effectiveness and Faraday Instabilities
• Neutral Atom Microscopy: Science and Applications
• Title to be confirmed
• Rate, temperature and their coupled effects on the deformation process of polycarbonate and its composite
• How is Small different from Big?
• Benchmarking and developing models for molecule-surface potential energy surfaces. The difficulties and opportunities arising from experimental data which is too detailed and too sensitive
• Gram-scale explosions to inform numerical modelling and FREM development
• Image-based high strain rate testing of materials
• Energetics now and future trends
• The challenge of developing materials for fusion
• Shock and Impact Deformation: A Geological Perspective
• Multi-Scale Characterization of Materials under Extreme Conditions
• Discovering the 2D world with XPS
• 2D Helium Atom Diffraction from a Microscopic Spot
• Hardening effects in metals
• Build the future: Design concrete with machine learning
• Challenges in capturing transient thermal evolutions in materials using IR imaging
• The stochastic wave function method for diffusion of alkali atoms on metallic surface
• Improved statistical estimation of impact sensitivity
• Pressure, Rate, and Temperature Effects on Mechanical Properties in Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA)
• DYMAT in historical context
• Fusion is coming: Recent achievements and activities in the nuclear fusion
• An overview of the CASS group at Imperial
• An investigation into the effectiveness of patch repairs to restore impact properties of CFRPs for aerostructure application
• Ultrafast diffusion at the onset of 2D growth: O/Ru(0001) and S/Ni(111)
• Keeping up the pressure
• The formation of contrast in scanning helium microscopy
• Experimental and numerical study of detonation reaction zones
• Quantum tunnelling effects in the guanine-thymine wobble misincorporation via tautomerism
• Additive manufacturing of energetic materials
• Fundamentals of thermodynamics (and a bit of quantum mechanics)
• A day in the life of an adsorbate: Observing dynamics in an open quantum system
• Cleaning up the nuclear legacy: Vitrified wasteform development and durability
• Resonant acoustic mixing processing studies of energetic materials
• An experimental approach for the validation and development of Group Interaction Modelling for polymer properties
• An experimental approach for the validation and development of Group Interaction Modelling for polymer properties
• Alloy design against fatigue?
• Is wood a material?
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• Forensic explosives analysis
• Highways and byways in the history of high rate mechanical testing
• Exploiting shape anisotropy for binary magnetic memories
• Title to be confirmed
• Modelling energy dissipation at surfaces
• Field emitters at atomic scale: Insights from density functional theory
• Ptychography
• Imaging materials structure and bonding using coherent and incoherent electron imaging
• Random explorations of materials space
• A voyage from bulk via thin film and nanoparticles to surface magnetism
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• Colloids in confinement: From two-dimensional melting to membrane transport
• Characterising explosive blast loading for structural engineering, protection and blast injury sciences
• Studying molecule-surface interactions using rotational orientation control of ground-state molecular beams
• Studying charge density wave systems and THz collective excitations with a meV atomic beam
• Fracture by a million impacts: Erosion of polycrystalline diamond at temperatures up to 600 ˚C
• Simple condensed phase explosive detonation modelling
• Using scanning probes to fabricate and characterise nanoscale donor devices in silicon
• Imaging with atoms
• Experiments with high explosives
• Borates as electrodes for lithium and magnesium-ion batteries
• Some applications of DFT in surface dynamics
• Analytical descriptions of atomic-scale surface dynamics
• Full-field optical metrology
• Simple condensed phase explosive detonation modelling
• Full-field optical metrology
• Chiral modification of surfaces
• Understanding and manipulating monolayers of 1D and 2D conjugated polymers
• An exploration of grain growth & deformation in zirconium
• A continuum theory for the fractures in brittle and ductile solids
• Computer vision techniques for measuring deformation
• Imaging surfaces with atoms
• Undersampling in physical imaging inverse problems
• The quasi-stationary nature of ‘steady-state’ cyclic deformation
• A history of seeing sound: From medieval phonetics to high-speed photography
• Damage of polymer-bonded composites
• Direct measurements of dynamic granular compaction at the mesoscale using synchrotron X-ray radiography
• Aristotle, projectiles and guns
• Thermodynamics de-mystified? /Thermodynamics without Ansätze?
• Scale and anisotropic effects in necking of metallic tensile specimens
• Scale and anisotropic effects in necking of metallic tensile specimens
• Dynamics of carbon and hydrogen on Ru(001)
• Enhanced structural evolution in the dynamic plasticity of fcc metals
• Title to be confirmed
• High strain rate deformation response of titanium for aerospace gas turbines
• Diffraction of noble gases from surfaces: A challenge for theoreticians
• Chiral surface systems
• Molecular adsorption and strained graphene on boron nitride
• The wetting of metal surfaces and nano-structured interfaces
• Neutron spin echo and reflectivity (at OFFSPEC)
• The Whittle Laboratory: Fluid mechanics of jet engines and vacuum cleaners
• Where have all the speckles gone? Incoherence and decoherence in fluctuation electron microscopy
• Title to be confirmed
• The focusing neutral helium beam microscope NEMI
• Crystalline growth of ice – Restructuring of the first wetting layer during multilayer formation
• On the development and calibration of an in vitro platform to investigate the response of stem cells over a wide range of pressure and strain rate
• Caging the Sun: Materials challenges in magnetic confinement fusion reactors
• The particulars of particulates
• Microtribology of biological and bio-inspired surfaces
• The particulars of particulates
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• Post-blast explosive residue: Morphological, chemical and computational studies
• The characterisation of a shock tube system for blast injury studies
• Title to be confirmed
• Engineering structure and response of soft materials with DNA-mediated interactions
• Characterization of gravelly soils for geotechnical engineering applications
• Power laws in dislocation plasticity
• A molecular perspective of water structure at metal surfaces
• Diffusion dynamics of adsorbates from tunnelling and other quantum effects
• The dynamic compression and subsequent freezing of water
• Birefringence measurements in calcite and sapphire under shock compression
• Molecular engineering for sustainable energy applications
• Hybrid functional devices based on graphene
• Adhesive properties of polymer bonded explosive constituents: An experimental, analytical and computational approach
• Structural energetics based on intermetallic reactions
• Sine-Gordon kinks and dislocation motion
• New opportunities and challenges for electron microscopy
• Investigating pnictogen surfaces via HAS: The effect of electron-hole excitations on measured vibronic modes
• A dynamic discrete dislocation plasticity study of plastic relaxation phenomena in shock loading
• Deformation Pathways in Shock Compressed Silicon: Experiments and Atomic Simulations
• Quantification of near field blast loading
• Shocking temperatures. 2: What did we get?
• Title to be confirmed
• Measurement of mechanical properties of diamond via solid particle erosion
• Adhesive properties of polymer bonded explosive constituents: An experimental, analytical and computational approach
• The Doctoral Training Centre in computational materials science
• On the characterisation of shock-induced sliding along multi-material interfaces
• Shocking sand: Granular materials under extreme conditions
• Magnetic resonance in physics and engineering: Dynamics of solids and fluids
• Probing surface structure and interactions of ionic liquids
• Scanning helium microscopy (SHeM): Real space imaging of delicate surfaces
• Shocking temperatures. 1: What did you expect?
• Quasi-elastic neutron scattering: a powerful tool to investigate molecular dynamics in two dimensions
• Nanostructures for tuning of optical properties: Light and matter wave applications
• Properties and applications of diamond
• The nuclear detective: The role of particle characterisation
• Perspectives on the surface reactivity of actinides
• Understanding human injury from under vehicle explosions
• Structural and functional characterisation of oxide nanomaterials
• Dynamic fracture and fragmentation of rings and cylinders: Studies with explosive and gas gun methods
• Machine learning in materials design, oil exploration, and beyond
• i2®©: Investigative & Interpretative Radiochemistry – The development of nuclear forensic science
• Structural and functional characterisation of oxide nanomaterials
• Shock-induced cavity collapse in liquid nitromethane
• The properties of silicate glass relevant to their use in ballistics applications
• Soft capture of 'shrapnel' in foams
• How to keep women (and men) in science
• The diffusion of benzene adsorbed on graphite surfaces studied with quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) techniques
• Semi-metal surfaces: A new territory for helium atom scattering measurements
• The working of metals and Deep Thought
• Ammonium nitrate: Safe oxidizer or dangerous explosive
• The development of the hybrid rocket for Bloodhound SSC
• Numerical simulations of high-speed droplet splashing
• Solids under high-pressure shock compression: The interplay between simulation and experiment
• Are we in the dark about light? Deriving optical properties from molecular structure
• HOPKINSON CENTENARY CONFERENCE CAMBRIDGE
• HOPKINSON CENTENARY CONFERENCE CAMBRIDGE
• Silk: Spiders, silkworms, and advanced materials
• Physics in the oil and gas industry
• Knowledge exchange: What is it, who does it, and why do it?
• Ask not what you can do for outreach but instead what outreach can do for you!
• Solids under high-pressure shock-compression: the interplay of simulation and experiment
• Investigating single molecule transport at micro- and nanometre scales
• Multiscale modelling of brittle fracture in oxides and semiconductors
• Nano-particle polymer composites
• Shock compression of geological materials
• Sum frequency generation spectroscopy of small molecules adsorbed at interfaces
• Quantum simulation with ultracold atoms
• Complex molecules on surfaces: Synchrotron radiation, scanning probe and in situ electrospray deposition
• Implementation of viscoelastic Hopkinson bars and their application to the testing of soft materials
• Fracture mechanics, quantum mechanics and fractal geometry applied to brittle materials
• A day in the life of a patent attorney
• Fluid-structure interaction in underwater blast
• Pipe dreams
• The working of ductile metals and the doctrine of maximum entropy
• Recent perspectives in the science of granular matter
• Nuclear quantum effects, path integrals and coloured noise
• Understanding 3HeSE measurements of pentacene surface diffusion via computer simulation
• X-rays and light from diffuse mechanical energy
• From babbling brooks to boiling kettles
• The use of H atom band structures in the first principles determination of H atom surface diffusion
• Reactive metal powders
• Unusual phase diagrams in ferroelectric crystals
• Quantum effects in surface diffusion and scattering
• Silk, the bio-nanocomposite: Findings from high-speed impact
• Biological materials and mechanics: An overview
• Heavy atom diffraction in scattering from surfaces
• Chinese university and industrial espionage
• A new concept for high strain rate testing of materials based on the use of inertial forces
• Reactive metal powders
• Strain localization in granular materials
• Structural modification of energetic materials using high pressures and co-crystallisation
• Role of computer simulations in understanding surface processes
• Imaging structural performance
• Ceramic armour: Past, present and future
• Topics in quantum matter research
• Title to be confirmed
• Nanomechanics of coatings for electronic and optical applications
• Exploring structural phase transitions in nanofriction
• Probabilistic automated alloy development
• Probing micro-mechanical deformation behaviour with high resolution electron backscatter diffraction.
• Screen-printable energetic inks for mining detonators
• Surface diffusion on the atomic scale
• Mechanisms of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylenes subjected to ballistic impact
• Current research at the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory
• Modelling the behaviour of multiscale cellular materials
• Organic electronics: Applied nanotechnology
• Interaction of phonons and Dirac fermions on the surface of Bi2Se3: A strong Kohn anomaly
• Charge transport physics of high mobility organic semiconductors
• Prospects for studying how high-intensity compression waves cause damage in human blast injuries
• Dynamic response of electronic systems to shocks and vibrations: Applications ot analytical ("mathematical") modelling and design for reliability (DfR)
• Steam and Gas Turbines – Wear and Erosion Challenges at High Temperatures
• Microscopic characterization of organic thin films for appliactions in organic electronics
• Polymer solar cells
• Novel multi-functional lightweight armour
• Ultrafast charge transfer in pyridine on Cu(110)
• Review of the mechanical properties of diamond
• Explosive interactions of granular media with structures
• Strain effect on electronic and structural properties of metal nanoislands grown on reconstructed Au(111)
• Hardness-induced elastic, plastic, cracking observations
• Title to be confirmed
• Pulsed power driven shock physics experiments at Imperial College
• Scratching the surface: Measuring the wear and frictional response of surfaces
• Erosion of thermal barrier coatings
• Shock compression of Mie-Grüneisen liquids
• Improving laser-driven flyer performance
• Research in the Semiconductor Physics Group at the Cavendish Laboratory
• Physics in innovation consultancy
• On the twist: Chirality at surfaces
• Nanotechnology: Challenging chips and crime
• The nucleation and growth of nanovoids: Molecular dynamics calculations
• Artificial nacre with vertically bridged tablets by ambient solution processing
• Single atoms and ultracold atomic gases
• Impact cratering: Shock physics on a planetary scale
• Simple systems at extreme conditions
• Characterisation of anisotropic materials at high rates of strain
• Titanium dioxide: Interplay between non-stoichiometry, point and planar bulk defects and surface structure and reactivity
• The dynamics of thermally activated motion of cyclopentadienyl and pyrrole on Cu(111)
• A two dimensional approach for measuring surface phonons using helium spin echo
• Fluctuation Electron Microscopy of Amorphous Materials: The Twinkle in the Microscopist's Eye.
• Life, Hypervelocity Impacts and the Solar System
• Structures of materials at high pressures
• How to make polymers as strong as steel – and also more environmentally friendly
• Nanohardness of high purity Cu (111) single crystals: The effect of indenter load and prior plastic strain
• Nanohardness of high purity Cu (111) single crystals: The effect of indenter load and prior plastic strain
• How water wets metal surfaces
• The use of innovative optimisation methods in computational mechanics: Application to structures, material processing technologies and constitutive models
• Low work function diamond surfaces
• Behaviour of structures under extreme dynamic loadings: Characterisation and modelling
• Ferromagnetic fibre networks and their possible application for magneto-mechanical stimulation of bone growth
• High strain rate properties of shape memory alloys
• Shock properties of porous materials
• Shock properties of porous materials
• The use of Taylor impact for validating material constitutive models
• Whipple shields for spacecraft
• Constant Intermittency: Central problems in dislocation plasticity
• Rational material selection in product design
• Title to be confirmed
• Toward understanding the role of heterogeneity in powder mixtures
• Organic Monolayers, Networks, Electrochemistry: A Toolbox for the Nanoscale?
• Next generation initiators
• Ice accretion on aircraft
• Predicting surface structures from first principles
• Liquid crystal elastomers
• Mechanical behaviour of particulate polymer composites
• Optical techniques for characterising shock ejecta
• Adventures in catalytic nanospace: Resolving surface phenomena at the atomic scale
• Simulation of void collapse in heterogeneous explosives
• PBX 9502 detonation propagation
• First principles simulations of water-solid interfaces and the initial stages of ice nucleation
• Structural hierarchies and phase transitions in perovskites: Group theoretical constraints and practical applications
• One bubble, two bubbles, three bubbles, four... the physics of bubbles and how to eavesdrop on a breaking wave
• What happens when a bomb explodes: A review of current understanding in conventional munitions
• Splitting in the Fermi surface of ZrTe3: A surface charge density wave system
• High-power lasers and the extreme conditions that they can produce
• Dislocation dynamics simulations of plasticity in dispersion hardened metals
• The Myth of Mithril: Real materials for body armour
• Photonic Doppler velocimetry: The easy way to measure particle velocity
• Green Explosives: Saving the environment, one war at a time…
• Recent measurements using 3He spin-echo spectroscopy: Surface dynamics
• Recent measurements using 3He spin-echo spectroscopy: Bound state resonances
• Dynamic behaviour of granular materials during penetration and compaction
• The use of chirped fibre Bragg grating sensors to monitor disbond growth in bonded composite structures
• Going for strength: The development of carbon nanotube fibres and fibre composites
• Site specific residual stress analysis using focused ion beam machining
• Towards extracting high strain rate constitutive relations using impact nanoindentation and finite elements
• Towards extracting high strain rate constitutive relations using impact nanoindentation and finite elements
• Biomolecular adsorption at a silicon/water interface driven by water-structure effects
• New generation X-ray diffraction: technology and applications
• Quasicrystals: there be monsters...
• Mesoscopic to macroscopic behaviour of particulate composites: Experimental and numerical aspects
• On the probabilistic–deterministic transition involved in a fragmentation process of brittle materials
• Towards extracting high strain rate constitutive relations using impact nanoindentation and finite elements
• Nano-wires and islands - the structure of rare earth silicides on silicon surfaces
• Nonlocality and dynamic fracture: Are multiscale models the answer in dynamic fracture?
• Soft, Self-Organized Systems: Templates for Functional Nanomaterials
• Shock Compression of Metals: From Monocrystals to Nanocrystals, from Explosives to Lasers
• Initiation systems and novel explosives for laser flyer initiation
• Energetic phenomena in an underwater environment
• Crystallography of NLO materials: battle of the charge-density models
• Accentuate the negative: anomalous thermal expansion in cyanide frameworks
• The dynamics of molecules on oxide surfaces modelled with ab initio methods
• Immobilisation of nuclear and toxic wastes by vitrification
• Sudden energy release around interfaces during quasistatic loading
• The conch shell as a model for tougher composites
• Falling glass: The post-fracture performance of glass in buildings
• Studies of 21-6-9 stainless steel at various strain rates
• Time-resolved X-ray diffraction on laser-shocked crystals
• Building the next generation climate model
• PA Consulting: Exploiting emerging technologies
• Electronic friction and excitations in molecule-surface interactions
• Beyond slip circle constructions: the cohesion limit of a polycrystal
• Optical angular momentum and some applications
• Activated surface diffusion with interaction adsorbates
• Sum-rules and quantum limits: Using first principles to understand nonlinear optical behaviour
• Surface dynamics in the low friction regime: Xe on Pt(111) using 3He Spin Echo Spectroscopy
• New developments in atom detectors for molecular beam experiments
• Making the most of your intellectual property
• Systematic prediction of new second-order organic nonlinear optical materials
• The dynamics of benzene on surfaces
• Extrapolating from 50 years of dislocation imaging: Reaching into the core
• A mathematician’s odyssey into the world of granular flows: From microscopic considerations to a continuum theory
• Quantum information processing with silicon-on-insulator based single electron transistors
• Shock generated pressure-temperature excursions in planetary materials
• Forensic material technology
• Development of Textures in Nematic and Smectic (Ferro-Electric) Rubbers
• Adsorption and Reactions on Interstellar Dust Grains
• Navigating in a Chiral Landscape
• What’s Cooking in Mining?
• Materials Science Research at the ISL
• Slip Circle Constructions for Dislocation Plasticity, with Special Reference to Nanoindentations
• UK MoD Ignition Studies Towards Large Calibre Gun System Applications
• Detecting Single Atoms in the STEM
• Imaging Surfaces with Atoms: How, Why and When?
• Advanced Structural Characterisation Techniques for Amorphous Materials
• Non-Adiabatic Processes at the Gas-Solid Interface
• Technology and Golf: Friends or Foes?
• How to Make an Atom-Mirror: Preparation of Si(111)-(1x1)H surfaces on ultrathin crystals