Dr James Adams
Lecturer
Qualifications: PhD (Cantab)
Email: j.adams@surrey.ac.uk
Phone: Work: 01483 68 2723
Room no: 14 BB 03
Further information
Biography
- 1998-2002 MA, MSci, Natural Sciences Cambridge University
- 2002-2005 PhD, Theory of Condensed matter group, Cambridge University main chain and smectic liquid crystalline elastomers supervised by Prof. Mark Warner
- 2005-2007 Research Fellowship Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, worked with Prof. Peter Olmsted and Dr Suzanne Fielding on models of shear banding in wormlike micelles, and Prof. Sergio Conti and Prof. Antonio DeSimone on microstructure in smectic elastomers
- 2005-2008 Junior Research fellowship at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
- 2008-2009 Postdoctoral researcher Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
- 2009-present Lecturer University of Surrey
- 2011 Awarded the Instutite of Physics Liquids and Complex Fluids Early Career Researcher Prize
Research Interests
My research interests are focused on the properties of polymer systems, including:
- Elasticity of smectic liquid crystalline elastomers
- Ferroelectric smectic liquid crystalline elastomers
- Quasiconvexification and microstructure in elastomers
- Hairpin defects and main chain elastomers
- Chiral random walks and polarization in main chain elastomers
- Shear banding in complex fluids
- Non-equilibrium thermodynamics
- Topological defects in liquid crystals
- Switchable adhesion
Publications
Highlights
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(2011) 'Transient shear banding in entangled polymers: A study using the Rolie-Poly model'. JOURNAL RHEOLOGY AMER INST PHYSICS JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY, 55 (5), pp. 1007-1032.doi: 10.1122/1.3610169Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/15375/
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(2009) 'Nonmonotonic Models are Not Necessary to Obtain Shear Banding Phenomena in Entangled Polymer Solutions'. AMER PHYSICAL SOC PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 102 (6) Article number ARTN 067801 Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16907/
- . (2008) 'The interplay between boundary conditions and flow geometries in shear banding: Hysteresis, band configurations, and surface transitions'. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV JOURNAL OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID MECHANICS, Naples, ITALY: 151 (1-3), pp. 101-118.
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(2008) 'Mechanical response of smectic-C elastomers'. AMER PHYSICAL SOC PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 77 (2) Article number ARTN 021702 Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16905/
Journal articles
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(2013) 'Tack energy and switchable adhesion of liquid crystal elastomers'. The Royal Society of Chemistry Soft Matter, 9 Article number 1151 , pp. 1151-1163.doi: 10.1039/c2sm26868j
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(2012) 'Negative Poisson’s ratio and semisoft elasticity of smectic-$C$ liquid-crystal elastomers'. American Physical Society Phys. Rev. E, 85 Article number 011703 Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/188327/
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(2011) 'Transient shear banding in entangled polymers: A study using the Rolie-Poly model'. JOURNAL RHEOLOGY AMER INST PHYSICS JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY, 55 (5), pp. 1007-1032.doi: 10.1122/1.3610169Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/15375/
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(2010) 'Strain analysis of a chiral smectic-A elastomer'. AMER PHYSICAL SOC PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 82 (3) Article number ARTN 031705 Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16911/
- . (2009) 'Comment on "Nonmonotonic Models are Not Necessary to Obtain Shear Banding Phenomena in Entangled Polymer Solutions" Reply'. AMER PHYSICAL SOC PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 103 (21) Article number ARTN 219802
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(2009) 'Adams and Olmsted reply:'. American Physical Society Physical Review Letters, 103 (21) Article number 219802 Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16902/
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(2009) 'Mechanical switching of ferroelectric rubber'. AMER PHYSICAL SOC PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 79 (6) Article number ARTN 061704 Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16906/
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(2009) 'Nonmonotonic Models are Not Necessary to Obtain Shear Banding Phenomena in Entangled Polymer Solutions'. AMER PHYSICAL SOC PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 102 (6) Article number ARTN 067801 Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16907/
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(2008) 'Mechanical response of smectic-C elastomers'. AMER PHYSICAL SOC PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 77 (2) Article number ARTN 021702 Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16905/
- . (2008) 'Smectic-A elastomers with weak director anchoring'. AMER PHYSICAL SOC PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 78 (1) Article number ARTN 011703
- . (2008) 'Relaxation of a transversally isotropic energy and application to smectic A elastomers'. Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences (M3AS), 18 (1), pp. 1-20.
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(2008) 'Smectic-$C$ tilt under shear in smectic-$A$ elastomers'. APS PHYS REV E, 78, pp. 021705-021705.Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16908/
- . (2008) 'The interplay between boundary conditions and flow geometries in shear banding: Hysteresis, band configurations, and surface transitions'. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV JOURNAL OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID MECHANICS, Naples, ITALY: 151 (1-3), pp. 101-118.
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(2007) 'Stress relaxation in polymer networks: Equilibrium behavior and dynamics'. AMER INST PHYSICS JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 127 (11) Article number ARTN 114907 doi: 10.1063/1.2768921Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16912/
- . (2007) 'Soft elasticity and microstructure in smectic-$C$ elastomers'. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, 18 Article number 6 , pp. 319-319.
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(2006) 'Spontaneous shears in smectic elastomers'. AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 73 (3) Article number ARTN 031706 Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16910/
- . (2005) 'Hairpin rubber elasticity'. SPRINGER EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E, 16 (1), pp. 97-107.
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(2005) 'Soft elasticity in smectic elastomers'. AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 72 (1) Article number ARTN 011703 Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16909/
- . (2005) 'Lattice modes of hexamethylbenzene studied by inelastic neutron scattering'. Elsevier Chemical Physics, 317 Article number 2 , pp. 143-143.
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(2005) 'Elasticity of smectic-A elastomers'. AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 71 (2) Article number ARTN 021708 Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16903/
- . (2004) 'Cracking a chemical conundrum'. Elsevier Physica B: Physics of Condensed Matter, 350 Article number 1 , pp. E351-E351.
- . (2004) 'On the polarization of chiral main-chain liquid-crystalline elastomers'. SPRINGER EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E, 14 (3), pp. 277-285.
- . (2003) 'A quantitative parameter for predicting mixing behaviour in adsorbed layers: the 2D isomorphism coefficient'. Elsevier Chemical Physics Letters, 373 Article number 5 , pp. 480-480.
Teaching
- Level 3/M Advanced Quantum Physics
- Level 2 Energy and Entropy
- Level 1 Mathematical and Computational Physics
- Level 1 Scientific Investigation Skills
- Level 1 Small Group Tutorials
Departmental Duties
- Level 1 Coordinator
- Member of the Board of Studies Sub-Committee
- Member of the Staff Student Liaison Committee
Affiliations
- Member of the Institute of Physics
- Member of the British Society of Rheology
