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Dr James Adams

Lecturer

Qualifications: PhD (Cantab)

Email:
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

  • Adams JM, Fielding SM, Olmsted PD. (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: 10.1122/1.3610169
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/15375/
  • Adams JM, Olmsted PD. (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
    doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.067801
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16907/
  • Adams JM, Warner M. (2008) 'Mechanical response of smectic-C elastomers'. AMER PHYSICAL SOC PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 77 (2) Article number ARTN 021702
    doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.021702
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16905/
  • Adams JM, Fielding SM, Olmsted PD. (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.
    doi: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2008.01.008

Journal articles

  • Corbett DR, Adams JM. (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
  • Brown AW, Adams JM. (2012) 'Negative Poisson’s ratio and semisoft elasticity of smectic-$C$ liquid-crystal elastomers'. American Physical Society Phys. Rev. E, 85 Article number 011703
    doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.011703
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/188327/
  • Adams JM, Fielding SM, Olmsted PD. (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: 10.1122/1.3610169
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/15375/
  • Spillmann CM, Konnert JH, Adams JM, Deschamps JR, Naciri J, Ratna BR. (2010) 'Strain analysis of a chiral smectic-A elastomer'. AMER PHYSICAL SOC PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 82 (3) Article number ARTN 031705
    doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.031705
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16911/
  • Adams JM, Olmsted PD. (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
    doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.219802
  • Adams JM, Olmsted PD. (2009) 'Adams and Olmsted reply:'. American Physical Society Physical Review Letters, 103 (21) Article number 219802
    doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.219802
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16902/
  • Adams JM, Olmsted PD. (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
    doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.067801
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16907/
  • Adams JM, Warner M. (2009) 'Mechanical switching of ferroelectric rubber'. AMER PHYSICAL SOC PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 79 (6) Article number ARTN 061704
    doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.061704
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16906/
  • Adams J, Conti S, DeSimone A, Dolzmann G. (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.
    doi: 10.1142/S0218202508002693
  • Adams JM, Warner M. (2008) 'Mechanical response of smectic-C elastomers'. AMER PHYSICAL SOC PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 77 (2) Article number ARTN 021702
    doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.021702
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16905/
  • Adams JM, Warner M, Stenull O, Lubensky TC. (2008) 'Smectic-A elastomers with weak director anchoring'. AMER PHYSICAL SOC PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 78 (1) Article number ARTN 011703
    doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.011703
  • Stenull O, Lubensky TC, Adams JM, Warner M. (2008) 'Smectic-$C$ tilt under shear in smectic-$A$ elastomers'. APS PHYS REV E, 78, pp. 021705-021705.
    doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.021705
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16908/
  • Adams JM, Fielding SM, Olmsted PD. (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.
    doi: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2008.01.008
  • Adams J, Conti S, DeSimone A. (2007) 'Soft elasticity and microstructure in smectic-$C$ elastomers'. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, 18 Article number 6 , pp. 319-319.
    doi: 10.1007/s00161-006-0031-8
  • Adams JM, Mao Y, Vandoolaeghe WL. (2007) 'Stress relaxation in polymer networks: Equilibrium behavior and dynamics'. AMER INST PHYSICS JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 127 (11) Article number ARTN 114907
    doi: 10.1063/1.2768921
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16912/
  • Adams JM, Warner M. (2006) 'Spontaneous shears in smectic elastomers'. AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 73 (3) Article number ARTN 031706
    doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.031706
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16910/
  • Adams JM, Warner M. (2005) 'Elasticity of smectic-A elastomers'. AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 71 (2) Article number ARTN 021708
    doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.021708
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16903/
  • Adams JM, Warner M. (2005) 'Soft elasticity in smectic elastomers'. AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 72 (1) Article number ARTN 011703
    doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.011703
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/16909/
  • Adams JM, Warner M. (2005) 'Hairpin rubber elasticity'. SPRINGER EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E, 16 (1), pp. 97-107.
    doi: 10.1140/epje/e2005-00012-3
  • Stride JA, Adams JM, Johnson MR. (2005) 'Lattice modes of hexamethylbenzene studied by inelastic neutron scattering'. Elsevier Chemical Physics, 317 Article number 2 , pp. 143-143.
    doi: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2005.05.039
  • Adams JM, Ivanov AS, Johnson MR, Stride JA. (2004) 'Cracking a chemical conundrum'. Elsevier Physica B: Physics of Condensed Matter, 350 Article number 1 , pp. E351-E351.
    doi: 10.1016/j.physb.2004.03.094
  • Adams JM. (2004) 'On the polarization of chiral main-chain liquid-crystalline elastomers'. SPRINGER EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E, 14 (3), pp. 277-285.
    doi: 10.1140/epje/i2004-10017-1
  • Clarke SM, Messe L, Adams J, Inaba A, Arnold T, Thomas RK. (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.
    doi: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2005.05.039

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