Recent publications. A complete list can be found on my group website.

1. Helical Defect Packings in a Quasi-One-Dimensional System of Cylindrically Confined Hard Spheres Mahdi Zaeifi Yamchi and Richard K. Bowles Phys. Rev. Lett. 115 025702 (2015).
   
   
2. Free Energy of Formation of Small Ice Nuclei Near the Widom Line in Simulations of Supercooled Waters Connor R. C. Buhariwalla, Richard K. Bowles, Ivan Saika-Voivod, Francesco Sciortino, and Peter H. Poole Eur. Phys. J. E 38 39 (2015).
   
   
3. Inherent structures, fragility, and jamming: Insights from quasi-one-dimensional hard disks Mahdi Zaeifi Yamchi, S. S. Ashwin and Richard K Bowles Phys. Rev. E 91 022301 (2015).
   
   
4. A Transition State Theory for Calculating Hopping Times and Diffusion in Highly Confined Fluids Surajith N. Wanasundara, Raymond J. Spiteri and Richard K. Bowles J. Chem. Phys. 140 024505 (2014).
   
   
5. Vapor condensation onto a non-volatile liquid drop levent Inci and Richard K. Bowles J. Chem. Phys. 139 214703 (2013).
   
   
6. Heterogeneous nucleation in the low barrier regime. Benjamin Scheifele, Ivan Saika-Voivod, Richard K. Bowles, Peter H. Poole Phys. Rev. E 87, 042407 (2013).
   
   
7. The Inherent Structure Landscape Connection Between Liquids, Granular Materials and the Jamming Phase Diagram. S. S. Ashwin, Mahdi Zaeifi Yamchi, and Richard K. Bowles, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 145701 (2013).
   
   
8. Free energy surface of ST2 water near the liquid-liquid phase transition Peter H. Poole, Richard K. Bowles, Ivan Saika-Voivod, and Francesco Sciortino. J. Chem. Phys. 138, 034505 (2013).
   
   
9. A Fragile-Strong Fluid Crossover and Universal Relaxation Times in a Confined Hard Disc Fluid. Mahdi Zaeifi Yamchi, S. S. Ashwin, and Richard K. Bowles, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 225701 (2012).
   
   
10. Single file and normal dual mode diffusion in highly confined hard sphere mixtures under flow. Surajith N Wanasundara, Raymond J Spiteri, and Richard K Bowles, J. Chem. Phys. 137, 104501 (2012).

Materials, Surfaces and Nanostructures Physical Chemistry liquid systems nanoparticles soft condensed matter

Soft condensed matter encompasses a wide variety of materials including liquids, glasses, colloids, gels and even nanoparticles. We use a combination of classical thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and computer simulation to understand how interactions at a molecular level give rise to the complex collective properties of these materials.

At present, we are particularly interested in understanding the properties of nanoscale systems and are investigating nucleation properties in nanoparticles and the dynamics of highly confined liquids. Some of our the current projects include:

• Heterogeneous nucleation and deliquescence of soluble nanoparticles

• Freezing in nanoparticles

• Jamming phenomena and the glass transition

• The statistical mechanics of liquids systems

• The statistical mechanics of nanoscale systems

  If you are interested in any of these projects and would like to join my research group, feel free to contact me by email.