Physical
The research groups in the Physical Chemistry section at Bath have a range of interests that have applications in manufacturing, healthcare technologies and the environment. The development of innovate electrochemical techniques is one of the key themes in the Physical Chemistry area along with the use of diffraction techniques for probing surfaces, powders and single crystals of a range of materials. Exciting research is also being carried out in the areas of polymer chemistry and the environment.
Staff research interests
- Solar cell fabrication and characterisation using electrochemical methods
- Electrodeposition of semiconductors on single crystal substrates
- Light stimulated reactions at the semiconductor/electrolyte interface
- Enzyme catalysed reactions in porous membranes.
- Novel materials for biofuel production
- Fundamental studies of nanoparticles at metal electrodes
- Mechanisms of self-assembly forming well-defined structures
- Nanoscale structure development in complex systems
- Simultaneous time-resolved measurements of structure on multiple length scales
- Surface attached biomimetic films and functionalised polymers
- Study of lipid membranes and membrane peptide function
- DNA analysis
- Heterogeneous and enantioselective catalysis
- Materials chemistry
- Sustainable chemistry
- Electrochemistry at interfaces
- Novel electrode design and materials
- Bioelectrochemical processes
- High intensity ultrasound to prepare polymers with controlled structures and properties
- Quartz crystal microbalance studies of polymer adsorption and dissolution
- Thermodynamic properties measured by chromatography
- X-ray and neutron reflection from buried interfaces
- Quartz microbalance studies of surface adsorption
- Fundamental structural studies of Langmuir-Blodgett films
