Stephen Walley
| Name: | Stephen Walley |
| Affiliation: | Physics |
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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
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- 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
- Title to be confirmed
- 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 ĖC
- 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 āsteady-stateā 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 AnsƤtze?
- 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 ā 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 ā 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 ā 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
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- 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 ā 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
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- 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 timeā¦
- 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 probabilisticādeterministic 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 mathematicianās 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
- Whatās 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
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