Professor Nigel Clarke
Professor of Condensed Matter Theory
Contact details
- Room : E19
- Phone : +44 (0)114 22 24273
- Fax : +44 (0)114 22 23555
email : n.clarke@sheffield.ac.uk
Research interests
- Theoretical Polymer and Soft Matter Physics
- Rheology of Polymers and Gels
- Neutron Scattering from Polymers under Flow and Polymer Nanocomposites
Teaching
- PHY333 (lectures)
Professional activities
- Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Treasurer and Honorary Secretary of the IOP Polymer Physics Group
- Member of ILL Liquids and Glasses Beamtime Allocation College
Recent key publications
- Polymer Tracer Diffusion Exhibits a Minimum in Nanocomposites Containing Spherical Nanoparticles, Minfang Mu, Michelle Seitz, Nigel Clarke, Russell Composto and Karen Winey, Macromolecules, 44, 191 (2011)
- Wetting Induced Instabilities in Miscible Polymer Blends, Katherine Thomas, Nigel Clarke, Rosa Poetes, Mihai Morariu and Ullrich Steiner, Soft Matter, 6, 3517 (2010)
- Anion-switchable supramolecular gels for controlling pharmaceutical crystal growth Jonathan Foster, Marc-Oliver Piepenbrock, Gareth Lloyd, Nigel Clarke, Judith Howard, Jonathan Steed, Nature Chemistry 2, 1037 (2010)
- Nanoparticle-Directed Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Block Copolymers, Amanda C. Kamps, Brenda L. Sanchez-Gaytan, Robert J. Hickey, Nigel Clarke, Michael Fryd and So-Jung Park, Langmuir, 26, 14345 (2010)
- Polymer Diffusion Exhibits a Minimum with Increasing Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Concentration, Minfang Mu, Nigel Clarke, Russell Composto and Karen Winey, Macromolecules, 42, 8365 (2009)