Professor Mark Geoghegan
Professor of Soft Matter Physics
Faculty Director of Training and External Affairs
Contact details
- Room : D19
- Phone : +44 (0)114 22 23544
- Fax : +44 (0)114 22 23555
email : mark.geoghegan@sheffield.ac.uk
Research interests
- Polymers at surfaces and interfaces
- Polymer gels and diffusion
- cell-surface interactions
- soft nanotechnology
Teaching
- PHY469
- PHY6006
- First year physics tutor
Departmental administration
- Director of Nanofolio, the Sheffield-Leeds Nanoscience Masters training portfolio
Professional activities
- Visiting Professor, Université de Bordeaux
- Coordinator, £2.7M EU Sixth Framework Research Training Network (POLYFILM)
- Organiser, international conference on confined polymer films, Sheffield, 2008.
Recent key publications
- R. La Spina, M. R. Tomlinson, L. Ruiz-Pérez, A. Chiche, S. Langridge, and M. Geoghegan. "Controlling network-brush interactions to achieve switchable adhesion" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 46 6460-3 (2007)
- A. M. Higgins, S. J. Martin, R. L. Thompson, J. Chappell, M. Voigt, D. G. Lidzey, R. A. L. Jones, and M. Geoghegan "Surface segregation and self-stratification in blends of spin-cast polyfluorene derivatives" J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 17 1319-28 (2005)
- J. P. de Silva, M. Geoghegan, A. M. Higgins, G. Krausch, M.-O. David, and G. Reiter "Switching layer stability in a polymer bilayer by thickness variation" Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 267802 (2007)
- P. Burgos, Z. Zhang, R. Golestanian, G. J. Leggett, and M. Geoghegan "Directed single molecule diffusion triggered by surface energy gradients" ACS Nano 3 3235-43 (2009)