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The School of Physics & Astronomy is one of the leading Physics departments in the UK, carrying out research in a broad range of areas such as Astronomy, Cosmology, Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Biophysics and Astrobiology.
Researchers in the School are regularly involved in high-impact work such as the search for the Higgs Boson, the study of the oldest galaxies in the Universe, and investigating the nature of the "dark matter" and "dark energy", which make up 95% of the universe.
The School's research varies from being highly fundamental to very applied and a number of our research groups are involved in collaborative projects with industrial partners.
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Extreme Conditions Physics
how materials react and change when being subjected to extremes of pressure, temperature etc
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Particle sizing for flowing colloidal suspensions using flow-differential dynamic microscopy
Dataset for "Particle sizing for flowing colloidal suspensions using flow-differential dynamic microscopy". Particle size is a key variable in understanding the behaviour of the particulate products that underpin much of ... -
Changes of Fermi Surface Topology due to the Rhombohedral Distortion in SnTe
Stoichiometric SnTe is theoretically a small gap semiconductor that undergoes a ferroelectric distortion on cooling. In reality however, crystals are always nonstoichiometric and metallic; the ferroelectric transition is ... -
The long term epidemic predictions from Imperial College CovidSim Report 9
A single tarball containing several directories, corresponding to the figures and tables in our paper. Raw simulation output is provided alongside python scripts to process it, and scripts to reproduce it from the original ... -
BioRock rare earth element leaching data
Sets of data from the ESA BioRock experiment showing biomining/bioleaching of elements (rare earth elements). Experiment on board of the International Space Station to study microbe-mineral interactions in space. Data in ... -
Swimming suppresses correlations in dilute suspensions of pusher microorganisms
Active matter exhibits various forms of non-equilibrium states in the absence of external forcing, including macroscopic steady-state currents. Such states are often too complex to be modelled from first principles and our ... -
Turning a yield-stress calcite suspension into a shear-thickening one by tuning inter-particle friction
We show that a suspension of non-Brownian calcite particles in glycerol-water mixtures can be tuned continuously from being a yield-stress suspension to a shear-thickening suspension without a measurable yield stress by ... -
Understanding high pressure molecular hydrogen with a hierarchical machine-learned potential
The hydrogen phase diagram has several unusual features which are well reproduced by density functional calculations. Unfortunately, these calculations do not provide good physical insights into why those features occur. ... -
Interaction between Nearly Hard Colloidal Spheres at an Oil-Water Interface v2
We show that the interaction potential between sterically stabilised, nearly hard-sphere (PMMA-PLMA) colloids at a water-oil interface has a negligible unscreened-dipole contribution, suggesting that models previously ... -
Phase behaviour of the quantum Lennard-Jones solid
The Lennard-Jones potential is perhaps one of the most widely-used models for the interaction of uncharged particles, such as noble gas solids. The phase diagram of the classical LJ solid is known to exhibit transitions ... -
SUPERSEDED - Interaction between Nearly Hard Colloidal Spheres at an Oil-Water Interface
## This dataset has been replaced by the one which can be found at https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/2848 . ## We show that the interaction potential between sterically stabilised, nearly hard-sphere (PMMA-PLMA) colloids at a ... -
Degradation of beta-lactams in bacterial growth media
The dataset contains growth curves of E. coli RJA002 in various growth media in the presence of beta-lactam antibiotics. These growth curves were used to determine the degradation rate of these antibiotics in a range of ... -
Mult-Min quantitative method of analysing effects of NaCl and phosphate on bacterial growth
Application of the Mult-Min quantiative method to experimental data investigating the effects of combined NaCl and phosphate limitation on growth of the moderately halophilic organim, Halomonas hydrothermalis. This is a ... -
Chicxulub data
Data on the microbiology of the Chicxulub crater (Mexico) and associated geochemical data. -
Experimental data for the article "Predictable Properties of Fitness Landscapes Induced by Adaptational Tradeoffs"
We used strains from Marcusson et al. (2009) (courtesy of Douglas Huseby and Diarmaid Hughes). The strains are isogenic derivatives of MG1655, a K12 strain of the bacterium E. coli, with specific point mutations or gene ... -
Dataset for: "A combined rheometry and imaging study of viscosity reduction in bacterial suspensions"
Dataset supporting the manuscript "A combined rheometry and imaging study of viscosity reduction in bacterial suspensions" accepted in PNAS. -
Testing the Wyart-Cates model for non-Brownian shear thickening using bidisperse suspensions [Dataset]
Raw simulation data and processed simulation and experimental data to support the article "Testing the Wyart-Cates model for non-Brownian shear thickening using bidisperse suspensions" by Ben M. Guy et al, published in ... -
The role of friction in the yielding of adhesive non-Brownian suspensions
Yielding behavior is well known in attractive colloidal suspensions. Adhesive non-Brownian suspensions, in which the interparticle bonds are due to finite-size contacts, also show yielding behavior. We use a combination ... -
Liquid Migration in Shear Thickening Suspensions Flowing through Constrictions
Dense suspensions often become more dilute as they move downstream through a constriction. We find that as a shear-thickening suspension is extruded through a narrow die and undergoes such liquid migration, the extrudate ... -
Nucleosome positions alone can be used to predict domains in yeast chromosomes
Simulation data related to the project "Nucleosome positions alone can be used to predict domains in yeast chromosomes". DNA is packaged into chromosomes, which are further organized into domains: Regions of the genome ... -
Dynamic optical rectification and delivery of active particles
We use moving light patterns to control the motion of Escherichia coli bacteria whose motility is photoactivated. Varying the pattern speed controls the magnitude and direction of the bacterial flux, and therefore the ...
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