Curriculum vitae

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Summary of C.V. headings:

JAMES ARTHUR ELLIOTT

PERSONAL DETAILS [back to top]

Departmental Address : Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy (Room T606), University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom.
Telephone (01223) 335 987
Facsimile (01223) 334 567
College Address : Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, CB3 0DG, United Kingdom.
Messages only (01223) 332 000
Electronic Addresses : E-mail :
WWW : http://www.elliotts.org.uk/
Researcher ID A-4135-2009

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS [back to top]

1999 University of Cambridge : MA (Cantab)
1995-98 University of Bristol : PhD in Polymer Physics
"X-ray diffraction and computer modelling of perfluorinated ionomer membranes"
Supervised by S. Hanna, Department of Physics
1992-95 University of Cambridge : BA Honours in Natural Sciences
Part II : Physics & Theoretical Physics


PROFESSIONAL HISTORY [back to top]

2012-date Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge.
Reader in Macromolecular Materials
2002-date Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge.
Elected as Fellow, Director of Studies and College Lecturer in Materials Science
2001-2012 Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge.
University Lecturer

For up to date information, please see the current projects page.

1998-2001 Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge.
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Macromolecular Materials Group
worked with A.H. Windle and A. Kelly on particle packing in polymer composites

OTHER APPOINTMENTS AND AFFILIATIONS [back to top]

4/08-9/08 Department of Materials Engineering, University of Tokyo
Visiting Professor and JSPS Fellow while on sabbatical leave
2006 to date American Chemical Society, Member
2004 Institute of Physics : CSci
Chartered Scientist status
2003 to date Materials Research Society, Member
2003 to date American Physical Society, Member
2000 to date Institute of Physics : CPhys MInstPhys
Chartered physicist status and full membership of the Institute of Physics

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS [back to top]

Refereed journal articles

  1. Elliott, J.A., Shibuta, Y., Amara, H., Bichara, C. and Neyts, E.C. "Atomistic modelling of CVD synthesis of carbon nanotubes and graphene", Nanoscale, DOI:10.1039/C3NR01925J (2013).
    preprint (1.42 MB)
  2. May, R.K., Su, K., Han, L.H., Zhong, S., Elliott, J.A., Gladden, L.F., Evans, M., Shen, Y. and Zeitler, J.A. "Hardness and density distributions of pharmaceutical tablets measured by terahertz pulsed imaging", J. Pharm. Sci., to appear (2013).
    preprint (1.29 MB)
  3. Kojima, T. and Elliott, J.A. "Incipient flow properties of two-component fine powder systems and their relationships with bulk density and particle contacts", Powder Tech., 228, 359-370 (2012).
    reprint (1.18 MB)
  4. Shibuta, Y. and Elliott, J.A. "Interaction between graphene and nickel(111) surfaces with commensurate and incommensurate orientational relationships", Chem. Phys. Lett., 538, 112-117 (2012).
    reprint (1.7 MB)
  5. Pugno, N.M. and Elliott, J.A. "Buckling of peapods, nanotubes and fullerenes", Physica E, 44, 944-948 (2012).
    reprint (633 kB)
  6. Hida, S., Shiga, T., Maruyama, S., Elliott, J.A. and Shiomi, J. "Influence of thermal boundary resistance and interfacial phonon scattering on heat conduction of carbon nanotube/polymer composites", Trans. Japan Soc. Mech. Eng. B, 787, 634-643 (2012).
    reprint (2.0 MB) [In Japanese]
  7. Antypov, D., Elliott, J.A. and B.C. Hancock "Effect of particle size on energy dissipation in viscoelastic granular collisions", Phys. Rev. E, 84, 021303 (2011).
    reprint (391 kB)
  8. Shibuta, Y. and Elliott, J.A. "Interaction between two graphene sheets with a turbostratic orientational relationship", Chem. Phys. Lett., 512, 146-150 (2011).
    reprint (1.03 MB)
  9. Elliott, J.A., Wu, D.S., Paddison, S.J. and Moore, R.B. "A unified morphological description of Nafion membranes from SAXS and mesoscale simulations", Soft Matter, 7, 6820-6827 (2011).
    reprint (1.30 MB)
  10. Han, L.H., Laity, P.R., Cameron, R.E. and Elliott, J.A. "Density and plastic strain evaluations using small-angle X-ray scattering and finite element simulations for powder compacts of complex shape", J. Mat. Sci., 46, 5977-5990 (2011).
    reprint (1.63 MB)
  11. Elliott, J.A. "Novel Approaches to Multiscale Modelling in Materials Science", International Materials Reviews, 56, 207-225 (2011).
    reprint (1.81 MB)
  12. Engels, V., Geng, J., Jones, G.M., Elliott, J.A., Wheatley, A.E.H. and Boss, S.R. "Cobalt catalyzed carbon nanotube growth on graphitic paper supports", Curr. Nanosci., 7, 315-322 (2011).
    reprint (3.22 MB)
  13. Antypov, D. and Elliott, J.A. "On an analytical solution for the damped Hertzian spring", Europhys. Lett., 94, 50004 (2011).
    reprint (261 kB)
  14. Vilatela, J.J., Elliott, J.A. and Windle, A.H., "A model for the strength of yarn-like carbon nanotube fibers", ACS Nano, 5, 1921-1927 (2011).
    reprint (2.58 MB)
  15. Laity, P.R., Han, L.H., Elliott, J.A. and Cameron R.E. "Variations in compaction behaviour for tablets of different size and shape, revealed by small-angle X-ray scattering", J. Pharm. Sci., 90, 4380-4389 (2010).
    reprint (PDF 422 kB)
  16. Cooke, D.J., Gray, R.J., Sand, K.K., Stipp, S.L.S. and Elliott, J.A. "The Interaction of Ethanol and Water with the {10.4} Surface of Calcite", Langmuir, 26, 14520-14529 (2010).
    reprint (3.7 MB)
  17. Wu, D., Paddison, S.J., Elliott, J.A. and Hamrock, S.J. "Mesoscale Modeling of Hydrated Morphologies of 3M Perfluorosulfonic Acid Based Fuel Cell Electrolytes", Langmuir, 26, 14308-14315 (2010).
    reprint (3.7 MB)
  18. Watling, C.P., Elliott, J.A. and Cameron, R.E. "Entrainment of lactose inhalation powders: a study using laser diffraction", Eur. J. Pharm. Sci., 40, 352-358 (2010).
    reprint (PDF 1.01 MB)
  19. Watling, C.P., Elliott, J.A., Scruton C. and Cameron, R.E. "Surface modification of lactose inhalation blends by moisture", Int. J. Pharm., 391, 29-37 (2010).
    reprint (PDF 1.5 MB)
  20. Cooke, D.J., Eder, D. and Elliott, J.A. "The role of benzyl alcohol in controlling the growth of TiO2 on carbon nanotubes", J. Phys. Chem. C, 114, 2462-2470 (2010).
    reprint (PDF 4.0 MB)
  21. Rahatekar, S.S., Shaffer, M.S.P. and Elliott, J.A. "Modelling percolation in fibre and sphere mixtures:routes to more efficient network formation", Comp. Sci. Technol., 70, 356-362 (2010).
    reprint (PDF 1.39 MB)
  22. Hancock, B.C., Mojica, N., St.John-Green, K., Elliott, J.A. and Bharadwaj, R. "An investigation into the kinetic (sliding) friction of some tablets and capsules", Int. J. Pharm., 384, 39-45 (2010).
    reprint (PDF 578 kB)
  23. Kim, S., Yamaguchi, S. and Elliott, J.A. "Solid-State Ionics in the 21st Century: Current Status and Future Prospects", MRS Bulletin, 34, 900-906 (2009).
    reprint (PDF 931 kB)
  24. Elliott, J.A. and Shibuta, Y. "Energetic stability of molybdenum nanoclusters studied with basin-hopping Monte Carlo and semi-empirical quantum methods", J. Comput. Theor. Nanoscience, 6, 1443-1451 (2009).
    reprint (PDF 447 kB)
  25. Wu, D.S., Paddison, S.J. and Elliott, J.A. "Effect of molecular weight on hydrated morphologies of the short-side-chain perfluorosulfonic acid membrane", Macromolecules, 42, 3358-3367 (2009).
    reprint (PDF 1.98 MB)
  26. Varshney, D.B., Elliott, J.A., Gatlin, L.A., Kumar, S., Suryanarayanan, R. and Shalaev, E.Y. "Synchrotron X-ray diffraction investigation of the anomalous behavior of ice during freezing of aqueous systems", J. Phys. Chem. B, 113, 6177-6182 (2009).
    reprint (PDF 4.74 MB)
  27. Shibuta, Y. and Elliott, J.A. "A molecular dynamics study of the graphitization ability of transition metals for catalysis of carbon nanotube growth via chemical vapor deposition", Chem. Phys. Lett., 472, 200-206 (2009).
    reprint (PDF 2.14 MB)
  28. Elliott, J.A., Hamm, M. and Shibuta, Y. "A multiscale approach for modeling the early stage growth of single and multiwall carbon nanotubes produced by a metal-catalyzed synthesis process", J. Chem. Phys., 130, 034704 (2009).
    reprint (PDF 840 kB)
  29. Elliott, J.A., Shibuta, Y. and Wales, D.J. "Global minima of transition metal clusters described by Finnis-Sinclair potentials: a comparison with semi-empirical molecular orbital theory", Phil. Mag., 89, 3311-3332 (2009).
    reprint (PDF, 2.20 MB)
  30. Antypov, D. and Elliott, J.A. "Computer simulation study of a single polymer chain in an attractive solvent", J. Chem. Phys., 129, 174901 (2008).
    reprint (PDF 196 kB)
  31. Harding, J.H., Duffy, D.M., Sushko, M.L., Rodger, P.M., Quigley, D. and Elliott, J.A., "Computational techniques at the organic-inorganic interface in biomineralization", Chem. Rev., 108, 4823-4854 (2008).
    reprint (PDF 3.7 MB)
  32. Han, L.H., Elliott, J.A., Bentham, Best, S., Cameron, R., Bentham, A.C., Amidon, G.E. and Hancock, B.C. "Numerical simulation on pharmaceutical powder compaction", Materials Science Forum, 575-578, 560-565 (2008).
    reprint (PDF 312 kB)
  33. Antypov, D. and Elliott, J.A."Wang-Landau simulation of polymer-nanoparticle mixtures", Macromolecules, 41, 7243-7250 (2008).
    reprint (PDF 700 kB)
  34. Han, L.H., Elliott, J.A., Bentham, A.C., Mills, A., Amidon, G. and Hancock, B.C. "A Modified Drucker-Prager Cap Model for Die Compaction Simulation of Pharmaceutical Powders", Int. J. Solids Struct., 45, 3088-3106 (2008).
    reprint (PDF 2.08 MB)
  35. Pong, I., Hopkins, S.C., Fu, X., Glowacki, B.A., Elliott, J.A. and Baldini, A. "Microstructure Development in Nb3Sn(Ti) Internal Tin Superconducting Wire", J. Mater. Sci., 43, 3522-3530 (2008).
    reprint (PDF 655 kB)
  36. Wu, C.-Y., Hancock, B.C., Mills, A., Bentham, A.C., Best S.M. and Elliott, J.A. "Numerical and experimental investigation of capping mechanisms during pharmaceutical tablet compaction", Powder Tech., 181, 121-129, (2008).
    reprint (PDF 1.87 MB)
  37. Wu, D.S., Paddison, S.J. and Elliott, J.A. "A comparative study of the hydrated morphologies of perfluorosulfonic acid fuel cell membranes with mesoscopic simulations", Energy Environ. Sci., 1, 284-293 (2008).
    reprint
    (PDF 1.89 MB)
  38. Elliott, J.A. and Shibuta, Y. "A semi-empirical molecular orbital study of free-standing and fullerene-encapsulated Mo nanoclusters", Mol. Sim., 34, 891-903 (2008).
    reprint (PDF 1.3 MB)
  39. Cooke, D.J. and Elliott, J.A. "Atomistic simulations of calcite nanoparticles and their interaction with water" J. Chem. Phys., 127, 104706 (2007).
    reprint (PDF, 685kB)
  40. Elliott, J.A. and Paddison, S.J. "Modelling of morphology and proton transport in PFSA membranes", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 9, 2602-2618 (2007).
    reprint (PDF, 3.84MB)
  41. Benedict, M., Dutt, M. and Elliott, J.A. "Dynamically tessellating algorithm for analysis of pore size distribution in particle agglomerates", Physica A, 378, 465-474 (2007).
    reprint (PDF 573kB)
  42. Han, Y. and Elliott, J.A. "Molecular dynamics simulations of the elastic modulus of polymer/carbon nanotube composites", Comput. Mat. Sci., 39, 315-323 (2007).
    reprint (PDF 587kB)
  43. Paddison, S.J. and Elliott, J.A. "Selective hydration of the 'short-side-chain' perfluorosulfonic acid membrane. An ONIOM study", Solid State Ionics, 178, 561-567 (2007).
    reprint (PDF 475 kB)
  44. Dutt, M., Elliott, J.A., Hancock, B.C. and Bentham, A.C. "Granular templating: effects of boundary structure on particle packings under simultaneous shear and compression", Europhys. Lett., 77, 18001 (2007).
    reprint (PDF 227kB)
  45. Pong, I., Hopkins S.C., Fu, X., Glowacki, B.A., Elliott, J.A. and Baldini, A. "Reactive diffusion in Cu-Nb-Sn Internal Tin superconducting wires for the ITER Project", Defect and Diffusion Forum, 258-260, 294-298 (2007).
    reprint (PDF 323kB)
  46. Freeman, C.L., Harding, J.H., Cooke, D.J., Elliott, J.A., Lardge, J.S. and Duffy, D.M. "New forcefields for modeling biomineralization processes" J. Phys. Chem. C, 32, 11943-11951 (2007).
    reprint (PDF, 315kB)
  47. Elliott, J.A. and Hancock, B.C. "Pharmaceutical materials science: an active new frontier in materials research", MRS Bulletin, 31, 869-873 (2006).
    reprint PDF (389kB)
  48. Paddison, S.J. and Elliott, J.A. "The effects of backbone conformation on hydration and proton transfer in the 'short-side-chain' perfluorosulfonic acid membrane" Solid State Ionics, 177, 2385-2390 (2006).
    reprint (PDF 420kB)
  49. Fu, X., Dutt, M., Bentham, A.C., Hancock, B.C., Cameron, R.E. and Elliott, J.A. "Investigation of particle packing in model pharmaceutical powders using X-ray microtomography and discrete element method", Powder Tech., 167, 134-140 (2006).
    reprint (PDF 755kB)
  50. Rahatekar, S.S., Koziol, K., Butler, S.A., Elliott, J.A., Shaffer, M.S.P, Mackley, M.R. and Windle, A.H. "Optical microstructure and viscosity enhancement for an epoxy resin matrix containing multiwall carbon nanotubes", J. Rheology, 50, 599-610 (2006).
    reprint (PDF 487kB)
  51. Elliott, J.A., Benedict, M. and Dutt, M. "Applications of DL POLY to modelling of mesoscopic particulate systems", Mol. Sim., 32, 1113-1121 (2006).
    reprint PDF (393kB)
  52. Paddison, S.J. and Elliott, J.A. "Molecular flexibility in the short-side-chain perfluorosulfonic acid membrane", ECS Trans., 1, 207-214 (2006).
    reprint (PDF 306kB)
  53. Fu, X., Elliott, J.A., Bentham, A.C., Hancock, B.C. and Cameron, R.E. "Application of X-ray microtomography and image processing to the investigation of a compacted granular system", Particle & Particle Sys. Character., 23, 229-236 (2006).
    reprint (PDF 521kB)
  54. Shibuta, Y. and Elliott, J.A. "A molecular dynamics study of the carbon-catalyst interaction energy for multi-scale modelling of single wall carbon nanotube growth", Chem. Phys. Lett., 427, 365-370 (2006).
    reprint (PDF 653kB)
  55. Tan, J.C., Elliott, J.A. and Clyne, T.W. "Analysis of tomography images of bonded fibre networks to measure distributions of fibre segment length and fibre orientation", Adv. Eng. Mat., 8, 495-500 (2006).
    reprint (PDF 732kB)
  56. Paddison, S.J. and Elliott, J.A. "The consequences of side chain flexibility and backbone conformation on hydration and proton transfer in perfluorosulphonic acid membranes" Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 8, 2193-2203 (2006).
    reprint (PDF 1.3MB)
  57. Elliott, J.A., Hanna, S., J.N. Newton, Elliott, A.M.S. and Cooley, G.E. "The Elimination of Orientation in Perfluorinated Ionomer Membranes", Polym. Eng. Sci., 46, 228 (2006).
    reprint (PDF 261kB)
  58. Rahatekar, S.S., Hamm, M., Shaffer, M.S.P. and Elliott, J.A. "Mesoscale modelling of electrical percolation in fibre-filled systems", J. Chem. Phys., 123, 134702 (2005).
    reprint (PDF 232kB)
  59. Paddison, S.J. and Elliott, J.A. "Molecular modeling of the short-side-chain perfluorosulfonic acid membrane" J. Phys. Chem. A, 109, 7583-7593 (2005).
    reprint (PDF 494kB)
  60. Amer, M.S., Elliott, J.A., Maguire, J.F. and Windle, A.H. "Calculations of the Raman spectra of C60 interacting with water molecules" Chem. Phys. Lett., 411, 395-398 (2005).
    reprint (PDF 140kB)
  61. Wu, C.-Y., Ruddy, O.M., Bentham, A.C., Hancock, B.C., Best S.M. and Elliott, J.A. "Modelling the mechanical behaviour of powders during compaction", Powder Tech., 152, 107-117 (2005).
    reprint (PDF 2.15MB)
  62. Dutt, M., Hancock, B.C., Bentham, A.C. and Elliott, J.A. "An implementation of granular dynamics for simulating frictional elastic particles based on the DL_POLY code", Comput. Phys. Comm., 166, 26-44 (2005).
    reprint (PDF 248kB)
  63. Elliott, J.A., Sandler, J.K.W., Windle, A.H., Young, R.J. and Shaffer, M.S.P. Reply to Comment on "Collapse of single-wall carbon nanotubes is diameter dependent", Phys. Rev. Lett., 93, 149602 (2004).
    reprint (PDF 36kB)
  64. Elliott, J.A., Sandler, J.K.W., Windle, A.H., Young, R.J. and Shaffer, M.S.P. "Collapse of single-wall carbon nanotubes is diameter dependent", Phys. Rev. Lett., 92, 095501 (2004).
    reprint (PDF 300kB)
  65. Elliott, J.A., Kelly, A. and Windle, A.H. "Recursive packing of dense particle mixtures", J. Mat. Sci. Letters, 21, 1249-1251 (2002).
    reprint (PDF 238kB)
  66. Elliott, J.A., Windle A. H., Hobdell, J.R., Eeckhaut, G., Olman, R.J., Ludwig, W., Boller, E., Cloetens, P., Baruchel, J. "In-situ deformation of an open-cell flexible polyurethane foam characterised by 3D computed microtomography", J. Mat. Sci., 37, 1547-1555 (2002).
    reprint (PDF 1.71MB)
  67. Elliott, J.A., James, P.J., McMaster, T.J., Newton, J.M., Elliott, A.M.S., Hanna, S. and Miles, M.J. "Hydrolysis of the Nafion precursor studied by X-ray scattering and in-situ AFM" e-Polymers, 22 (2001).
    reprint (PDF 0.32MB)
  68. Elliott, J.A., Hanna, S., Elliott, A.M.S. and Cooley, G.E. "The swelling behaviour of perfluorinated ionomer membranes in ethanol/water mixtures" Polymer, 42, 2251-2253 (2001).
    reprint (PDF 0.32MB)
  69. Elliott, J.A. and Windle, A.H. "A dissipative particle dynamics method for modelling the geometrical packing of filler particles in polymer composites" J. Chem. Phys., 113, 10367-10376 (2000).
    reprint (PDF 0.47MB)
  70. James, P.J., Elliott, J.A., McMaster T.J., Newton, J.M., Elliott A.M.S., Hanna, S. and Miles, M.J. "Hydration of Nafion studied by AFM and X-ray scattering" J. Mat. Sci., 35, 5111-5119 (2000).
    reprint (PDF 0.64MB)
  71. Elliott, J.A., Hanna, S., Elliott, A.M.S. and Cooley, G.E. "Interpretation of the small angle X-ray scattering from swollen and oriented perfluorinated ionomer membranes" Macromolecules, 33, 4161-4171 (2000).
    reprint (PDF 1.33MB)
  72. Elliott, J.A. and Hanna, S. "A model-independent maximum entropy method for the inversion of small-angle X-ray diffraction patterns" J. Appl. Cryst., 32, 1069-1083 (1999).
    reprint (PDF 0.83MB)
  73. Elliott, J.A., Hanna, S., Elliott, A.M.S. and Cooley, G.E. "Atomistic simulation and molecular dynamics of model systems for perfluorinated ionomer membranes" Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 1, 20, 4855-4863 (1999).
    reprint (PDF 0.32MB)

Conference proceedings and abstracts

  1. Cooke, D.J. and Elliott, J.A. “Atomistic simulation of the crystallisation and growth of calcium carbonate nanoparticles”, Geochim. et Cosmochim. Acta, 73 A241 (2009).
  2. Elliott, J.A., Antypov, D., Han Y., Cooke, D.J. “Multiscale modeling of bioinorganic interfaces” Abstr. Pap. Am. Chem. Soc., 238 (2009).
  3. Harding, J.H., Freeman, C.L., Yang, M.J., Cooke, D.J., Elliott, J.A., Duffy, D.M., Lardge, J., Quigley, D., Rodger, P.M. “Models for the nucleation and growth of calcium carbonate” Abstr. Pap. Am. Chem. Soc., 238 (2009).
  4. May, R.K., Han, L.H., Alton, J., Zhong, S., Elliott, J.A., Byers, C., Gladden, L.F., Evans, M., Shen, Y. and Zeitler, J.A. “Pharmaceutical tablet hardness measurements with THz pulsed imaging”, Proceedings of 34th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, 1-2 (2009).
    reprint (PDF, 539 kB)
  5. Rahatekar S.S., Shaffer M.SP. and Elliott J.A. “Electrical percolation in carbon nanotube dispersions: A mesoscale modeling and experimental study”, MRS Proceedings, 920, 63-69 (2006).
  6. Fu, X.W., Milroy, G.E., Dutt, M., Bentham, A.C., Hancock, B.C., Elliott, J.A. “Quantitative analysis of packed and compacted granular system by X-ray microtomography”, SPIE Int. Soc. Optical Engineering, 5747, 1955-1964 (2005).
  7. Elliott, J.A. “Multi-scale modelling of powder compaction: from granules to tablets”, J. Pharm. Pharmacol., 56, S92 (2004).
  8. Hamm, M., Elliott, J.A., Smithson, H.J., Windle, A.H. “Multiscale modelling of carbon nanotubes”, MRS Proceedings, 788, 623-628 (2004).
  9. Rahatekar, S.S., Hamm M., Shaffer M.S.P. and Elliott J.A. “Achieving electrical percolation in polymer-carbon nanotube composites”, MRS Proceedings, 788, 271-276 (2004).
  10. Elliott, J.A. “Computational modelling and structural studies of perfluorosulfonate ionomer membranes”, Nanotech 2003, 3, 474-477 (2003).

Selected recent conference presentations

  • Co-organizer of 12th International Conference on the Science and Application of Carbon Nanotubes (NT11) held in Cambridge, 10-16 July 2011, and the associated Computational Challenges and Tools for Nanotubes (CCTN11) satellite meeting, 15-16 July 2011.
  • Invited speaker at the XX International Materials Research Congress (IMRC) 2011, Cancun, Mexico in the “Polymer and Polymer-based Nanocomposite Materials for Energy” symposium.
  • Invited speaker at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting 2010 meeting in the “Polymer-based nanocomposites” and “Biomineralization and Bioinspired Inorganic and Inorganic/Organic Materials” symposia.
  • Symposium Organizer at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meetings 2009 and 2008 of the “Multiscale modelling of biomineral interfaces” and “Molecular biomimetics and materials design” symposia.
  • Invited oral presentation at American Chemical Society Fall Meeting 2009, Washington D.C. entitled “Multiscale modelling of bio-inorganic interfaces”,
  • Invited oral presentation at IACM Coupled Problems 2009, Ischia, Italy entitled  “Multiscale modelling of pharmaceutical tablets”

Other publications

  • Book chapter entitled “Atomistic Structural Modelling Of Ionomer Membrane Morphology”, in Device and Materials Modeling in PEM Fuel Cells (eds. S.J. Paddison, K. Promislow), Springer (2008).
  • Elliott, J. A., Starikov, E., Crawshaw, J. C., Claiden, P. C., Nilsson, L., Windle, A. H. Book chapter entitled “Nucleation of polyglutamine amyloid fibres modelling using molecular dynamics”, in Modern Methods For Theoretical Physical Chemistry Of Biopolymers (eds. E. Starikov, J. Lewis, S. Tanaka), Elsevier, (2006).
  • Book review of “Handbook of Materials Modeling” (ed. S. Yip) Materials Today, 9, 7/8, 51-52 (2006)
    reprint (PDF, 315 kB)
  • Book chapters entitled “Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics Methods” and “Mesoscale Methods and Multiscale Modelling” in Introduction to Materials Modelling (ed. Z. H. Barber), Maney Publishing (2004).
    reprints (PDF, 5.0 MB) Chapter 6 (MC & MD), Chapter 7 (Meso & Multi)
  • Book review of “The Kinetic Theory of Gases: An Anthology of Classic Papers with Historical Commentary” (by S.G. Brush) Contemporary Physics, 45, 5, 453-454 (2004).
    reprint (PDF, 76 kB)
  • Book review of “Polymers from the Inside Out. An Introduction to Macromolecules” (by A. E. Tonelli and M. Srinivasarao) Contemporary Physics, 43, 5, 416-417 (2002).
    reprint (PDF, 141 kB)
  • Book review of "Soft Condensed Matter: Configurations, Dynamics and Functionality" (eds. A. T. Skjeltorp and S. F. Edwards) Contemporary Physics, 43, 1, 40-41 (2002).
    reprint (PDF, 142 kB)
  • Windle, A.H., Elliott, J.A., Oldman, R.J., Hobdell, J.R., Eeckhaut, G., Baruchel, J., Bouchet, S., Ludwig, W., Cloetens, P.and Boller, E. “In situ deformation of open-cell flexible foams using 3-D computed microtomography”, ESRF Research Highlights 1999, pp. 87-88 (1999).
  • Elliott, J. A. “X-ray diffraction and computer modelling of perfluorinated ionomer membranes”, PhD thesis, University of Bristol (1998).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE [back to top]

Current

  • Lecturing MPhil "Materials Modelling" course entitled "Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics" at Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Cambridge.
  • Supervising undergraduate IA Natural Sciences course "Mathematical Methods for Natural Scientists" at Christ's College, Cambridge for the third year running.
  • Demonstrating the IA Natural Sciences "Materials" course at Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Cambridge for the second year running.

Previous

  • Completed a Postgraduate Teaching and Learning course, and passed the assessment exercise with distinction (credited at MEd level).
  • Supervised an MSci experimental skills course entitled "X-ray diffraction methods in Polymer Science", which involved training students to use X-ray generators and the molecular modelling package Cerius2.
  • Demonstrated Physics practical classes to 1st and 2nd year undergraduates at University of Bristol.
  • Private tuition of GCSE, ‘A’ Level and 1st year undergraduate students in Physics.