Professor CP Royall

Professor CP Royall
B.Sc.(Edin.), Ph.D.(Cantab.)

Professor of Chemical Physics

Area of research

Colloidial dispersions : from super-simple to ultra-complex

Office PHYS 3.56b / CHEM W227
HH Wills Physics Laboratory,
Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL
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Tel. +44 (0) 117 331 7208
paddy.royall@bristol.ac.uk

Research summary

CP Royall interested in tackling key unsolved problems in everyday materials. He combines computer simulations and novel experiments where suspensions of micron-sized colloidal particles, whose Brownian motion leads them to obey statistical mechanics in the same way as atoms and molecules, are imaged in 3D at the single-particle level. This two-pronged approach is uniquely powerful for tackling a wide range of problems in condensed matter. Key areas of interest include the nature of glass, the role of amorphous structures in understanding self-assembly, and the influence of networks in materials, such as gels and mobility graphs in dynamical arrest.

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Recent publications

Royall, CP, Dyre, J, Ingebrigsten, T & Schroder, T, 2019, ‘Crystallization Instability in Glass-Forming Mixtures’. Physical Review X, vol 9.
Gregson, FK, Robinson, JF, Miles, RE, Royall, CP & Reid, JP, 2019, ‘Drying Kinetics of Salt Solution Droplets: Water Evaporation Rates and Crystallization’. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol 123., pp. 266-276

School of Physics

Professor CP Royall