Liquids and Complex Fluids Group
This is an IOP special interest group, which is a community of IOP members focused on a particular discipline, application or area of interest.
Special interest groups allow members to connect and share knowledge and ideas. The IOP funds groups to deliver a range of activities including events, prizes and bursaries. All of our groups are driven by members.
About the group
As a special interest, member-driven group, we are interested in structure and dynamics from microscopic to mesoscopic, and macroscopic length scales. Our work encompasses systems that range from ʽsimpleʼ liquids to complex fluids and soft materials. These include:
- polymers
- emulsions
- gels
- foams
- colloids
- liquid crystals
We also look at their biological counterparts.
We make advances in physics research on the liquid state of:
- matter
- complex fluids
- soft condensed matter
We do this by collaborating with theorists, experimentalists and computer simulators.
We enjoy close links with the:
What the group does
Topics we cover include:
- liquid mixtures and solvation phenomena
- liquids and glasses under extreme conditions
- confined liquids and fluids at interfaces
- the glass transition and arrested states of matter (including the structure of glasses and amorphous solids)
- crystal growth in liquids
- self-assembly from solution
This interdisciplinary field has industrial links to:
- pharmacology
- petroleum and plastics
- food
- personal care
Physicists are interested in the physical realisation of ideal model systems working with:
- statistical mechanics
- liquids
- elasticity
- flow behaviour and rheology
- non-equilibrium phenomena
Liquids and complex fluids are poorly addressed in the traditional undergraduate curriculum. We inform postgraduate education, in graduate schools working across disciplines, for example.
We also develop new instrumentation and sophisticated data interpretation tools for work on liquids and complex fluids in UK supported X-ray and neutron sources.
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Group physics prize
Liquids and Complex Fluids Early Career Award
This prize is awarded biennially to an exceptional scientist, in the early stages of their career, working in the broadly defined area of Liquids and Complex Fluids.
Find out more about the Liquids and Complex Fluids Early Career Award, including past winners.
Group events
Find group events on the IOP events site.
Newsletter
February 2020 (PDF, 438KB)
February 2019 (PDF, 3.56MB)
January 2018 (PDF, 901KB)
December 2015 (PDF, 6.47MB)
January 2015 (PDF, 332KB)
October 2013 (PDF, 418KB)
December 2012 (PDF, 393KB)
September 2011 (PDF, 1.62MB)
Useful links
We strengthen our collaborations with links to:
- the Institute’s Neutron Scattering Group
- the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry. The interests of many physical and theoretical chemists focus on topics we address.
- the Liquids Board of the European Physical Society
Committee and contacts
| Chair | Professor Serafim Kalliadasis, FInstP |
| Secretary | Dr Lorenzo Di Michele, MInstP |
| Treasurer | Dr Sergey Lishchuk, MInstP |
| Ordinary Member | Dr David Buzza, MInstP |
| Ordinary Member | Dr Buddhapriya Chakrabarti, MInstP |
| Ordinary Member | Dr Alexander de Bruin, MInstP |
| Ordinary Member | Dr Rammile Ettelaie, MInstP |
| Ordinary Member | Dr Timm Krueger, MInstP |
| Ordinary Member | Dr Cesar Mendoza-Fernandez, MInstP |
| Ordinary Member | Dr Natasha Rhys, MInstP |
| Ordinary Member | Dr Manlio Tassieri, MInstP |
| Co-opted member | Professor Tanniemola Liverpool, CPhys MInstP |
| Early Career Physicist | Miss Tunrayo Adeleke-Larodo, MInstP |
- Email: [email protected]