Recent Publications of Richard Sear (2008 - )

Peer Reviewed Original Research Papers

  1. R. P. Sear, Phase separation of equilibrium polymers of proteins in living cells, Faraday Discussions 139, 21-34 (2008). download pdf
     
  2. R. P. Sear, Nucleation in the presence of slow microscopic dynamics, J. Chemical Physics 128, 214513 (4 pages) (2008); download pdf
     
  3. R. P. Sear, Nucleation of a liquid on aerosol nanoparticles, Europhysics Letters 83, 66002 (6 pages) (2008); download pdf
     
  4. R. P. Sear, Continuity of the nucleation of bulk and surface phases, J. Chemical Physics 129, 164510 (6 pages) (2008); download pdf Copyright (2008) AIP. This may only be downloaded for personal use. Other use requires prior permission by AIP.
     
  5. J. A. van Meel, A. J. Page, R. P. Sear and D. Frenkel, Two-step vapour-crystal nucleation close below triple point, J. Chemical Physics 129, 164510 (6 pages) (2008); download pdf Copyright (2008) AIP. This may only be downloaded for personal use. Other use requires prior permission by AIP.
     
  6. B. Khatri, T. C. B. McLeish and R. P. Sear, Statistical Mechanics of Convergent Evolution in Spatial Patterning, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 106, 9564-9569 (2009).
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  7. P. Asanithi, E. Saridakis, L. Govada, I. Jurewicz, E. W. Brunner, R. Ponnusamy, J. A. S. Cleaver, A. B. Dalton, N. E. Chayen and R. P. Sear, Carbon-nanotube based materials for protein crystallisation, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 1, 1203-1210 (2009). download preprint pdf.
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  8. R. P. Sear, Nucleation via an unstable intermediate phase, J. Chemical Physics 131, 074702 (6 pages) (2009); download pdf. Copyright (2009) AIP. This may only be downloaded for personal use. Other use requires prior permission by AIP.
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  9. A. J. Page and R. P. Sear, Freezing in the bulk controlled by prefreezing at a surface, Physical Review E 80, 031605 (5 pages) (2009); download pdf. Copyright (2009) APS. This may only be downloaded for personal use. Other use requires prior permission by APS.
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  10. A. J. Page and R. P. Sear, Crystallisation controlled by the geometry of a surface, Journal of the American Chemical Society 131, 17550-17551 (2009). Download pdf. Supporting Information (including two movies of nucleation).
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  11. I. A. Bushnak, F. H. Labeed, R. P. Sear and J. L. Keddie, Adhesion of microorganisms to bovine submaxillary mucin coatings: effect of coating deposition conditions, Biofouling 26, 387-397 (2010).
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  12. I. Jurewicz, A. A. K. King, P. Worajittiphon, P. Asanithi, E. W. Brunner, R. P. Sear, T. J. C. Hosea, J. L. Keddie and A. B. Dalton, Colloid-assisted self-assembly of robust, three-dimensional networks of carbon nanotubes over large areas, Macromolecular Rapid Communications 31, 609-615 (2010).
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  13. D. Liu, C. A. Che Abdullah, R. P. Sear and J. L. Keddie, Cell adhesion on nanopatterned fibronectin substrates, Soft Matter 6, 5408-5416 (2010).
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  14. J. A. van Meel, R. P. Sear and D. Frenkel, Design principles for broad-spectrum protein-crystal nucleants with nanoscale pits, Physical Review Letters 105, 205501 (2010). pdf Copyright (2010) APS. This may only be downloaded for personal use. Other use requires prior permission by APS.
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  15. V. Gonzalez-Perez, B. Schmierer, C. S. Hill and R. P. Sear, Testing Smad2 intranuclear dynamics by mathematical modelling of FRAP experiments, Integrative Biology 3, 197-207 (2011). (pdf here)
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  16. C. A. Che Abdullah, P. Asanithi, E. W. Brunner, I. Jurewicz, C. Bo, C. Lewis Azad, R. Ovalle-Robles, S. Fang, M. D. Lima, X. Lepro, S. Collins, R. H. Baughman, R. P. Sear and A. B. Dalton, Aligned, Isotropic and Patterned Carbon Nanotube Substrates that Control the Growth and Alignment of Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells, Nanotechnology 22, 205102 (2011). (pdf)
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  17. R. P. Sear, Non-self-averaging nucleation rate due to quenched disorder, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 24, 052205 (5 pages) (2012). (pdf)
 

Invited Reviews

     
  1. R. P. Sear, The Non-Classical Nucleation of Crystals: Microscopic Mechanisms and Applications to Molecular Crystals, Ice and Calcium Carbonate, International Materials Reviews ??, ??-?? (2012). (pdf)


pre-2001 publications


2001-2007 publications