Professor Richard Jones FRS
Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation
Contact details
- Telephone: +44 (0)114 22 29820
email : r.a.l.jones@sheffield.ac.uk
Research interests
- Experimental studies of macromolecules at interfaces
- Soft and Polymer Nanotechnology
- Social and ethical implications of nanotechnology
Teaching
- PHY101
- PHY411/412
- PHY469
Administrative responsibilities
- Senior Strategic Advisor for Nanotechnology, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Professional activities
- Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (2006)
- Fellow of Institute of Physics (2006)
- Chair, IoP Polymer Physics Group
- Editor in chief, European Physical Journal E (Soft Matter)
Recent key publications
- HOWSE, JR; TOPHAM, P; CROOK, CJ; GLEESON, AJ; BRAS, W; JONES, RAL; RYAN, AJ. "Reciprocating power generation in a chemically driven synthetic muscle", Nano Letters, 6 73-77 (2006)
- HIGGINS AM, MARTIN SJ, GEOGHEGAN M, HERIOT SY, THOMPSON RL, CUBITT R, DALGLIESH RM, GRIZZI I, JONES RAL, Interfacial structure in conjugated polymers: Characterization and control of the interface between poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene) and poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene-alt-benzothiadiazole)
Macromolecules 39 6699-6707 (2006) - HERIOT, SY; JONES, RAL. An interfacial instability in a transient wetting layer leads to lateral phase separation in thin spin-cast polymer-blend films, Nature Materials, 4 782-786 (2005)
- S.J. WOOD, R.A.L. JONES AND A. GELDART. "The Social and Economic Challenges of Nanotechnology", Economic and Social Research Council (2003)
- R.A.L. JONES, "Soft Machines: Nanotechnology and Life", Oxford University Press (2004)
- R.A.L. JONES, "Soft Condensed Matter", Oxford University Press (2002)