Doctoral Training Centre in Theory and Simulation of Materials

Research projects

The following table lists some of the research projects likely to be offered to the 2010 cohort. A list of research projects being undertaken by the 2009 cohort is available here. Click on the title in the table for more information. To see the criteria for research projects, click here. The form for proposing a research project may be found here.

Title	Supervisors
Developing vacancy and dislocation motion models to predict the enhanced healing of voids during the thermomechanical processing of advanced alloys	Balint-Lee-Lin
Storing CO₂ in old oil fields: solving the problem of asphaltene aggregation	Boek-Muller-Hunt
Self-assembly processes in protected metallic nanoparticles for nanomaterial applications: from single particle to nanoparticle networks	Bresme-Wilton Ely-Bearpark
Micro-mechanical model development for potato tubers	Charalambides-Williams-Lee
Atomistic-continuum hybrid coupling to model nano-indentation of metal films	Dini-Finnis-Heyes
Interfacial free energy of solid-melt interfaces in light metals and alloys	Finnis-De Vita-Lee
Optimisation of yttria stabilized zirconia surfaces for renewable energy applications	Finnis-Shluger-Kilner
What excited electrons do	Foulkes-Horsfield-Mason
Nuclear fuel performance modelling	Grimes-Wenman-Atkinson-Uberuaga
Phase stability in biomedical Ti alloys	Haynes-Dye-Finnis
Using nanowires to smell	Horsfield-Mostofi
New methods and novel materials: Ionic liquids	Hunt-Welton-Schäfer
Droplets: from molecular nanoclusters to the atmospheric aerosols	Jackson-Hunt-Ford-Muller
Understanding and modelling CO₂ capture: From quantum mechanics to chemical and phase behaviour	Jackson-Hunt-Gillan-Muller
Exciton band formation in conjugated polymers: the role of order	Nelson-Kirkpatrick-Horsfield
The chemo-mechanics of fracture in earth crust minerals	Tangney-De Vita-Zimmerman
Prediction of dielectric properties of metal oxides up to the terahertz range	Tangney-Klein-Alford-Foulkes
Modelling dielectric losses and breakdown in polycrystalline oxides	Tangney-Shluger-Alford
Functional integral formulation of the quasicontinuum method	Vvedensky-Foulkes
Heat transfer across technologically critical interfaces in nuclear fuel pins	Wenman-Bresme-Grimes-Domain
Modelling of stress corrosion cracking in next generation nuclear plant materials	Wenman-De Vita-Grimes