Publications

2001-2005

  1. R. P. Sear, Nucleation of a non-critical phase in a fluid near a critical point, J. Chemical Physics 114, 3170-3173  (2001); cond-mat/0010154.
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  2. P. J. McDonald, J. Godward, R. Sackin and R. P. Sear, Surface flux limited diffusion of solvent into polymer, Macromolecules 34, 1048-1057  (2001).
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  3. R. P. Sear and J. A. Cuesta,What do emulsification failure and Bose-Einstein condensation have in common?, Europhysics Letters 55, 451-457  (2001); cond-mat/0012256 .
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  4. R. P. Sear, Phase separation in mixtures of colloids and long ideal polymer coils, Physical Review Letters 86, 4696-4699  (2001); cond-mat/0012362.
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  5. R. P. Sear, Homogeneous nucleation of a non-critical phase near a continuous phase transition, Physical Review E 63, 066105 (5 pages) (2001); cond-mat/0101323.
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  6. R. P. Sear, Nucleation of the crystalline phase of proteins in the presence of semidilute non-adsorbing polymer,  J. Chemical Physics 115, 575-579  (2001);  cond-mat/0102253.
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  7. R. P. Sear, Scaling theory for the free-energy barrier to homogeneous nucleation of a non-critical phase near a critical point,  J. Chemical Physics 116, 2922-2927 (2002); cond-mat/0106377.
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  8. J. A. Cuesta and R. P. Sear, Phase transition analogous to Bose-Einstein condensation in systems of noninteracting surfactant aggregates, Physical Review E 65, 031406 (13 pages) (2002).
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  9. Z. Tavassoli and R. P. Sear, Homogeneous nucleation near a second phase transition and Ostwald's step rule, J. Chemical Physics 116, 5066-5072 (2002); cond-mat/0111362.
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  10. R. P. Sear, Heterogeneous nucleation near a metastable vapour-liquid transition: the effect of wetting transitions, J. Physics: Condensed Matter 14,3693-3703 (2002); cond-mat/0201113.
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  11. R. P. Sear, Interfacial tension and nucleation in mixtures of colloids and long ideal polymer coils, Physical Review E 65, 062401 (4 pages) (2002); cond-mat/0202440.
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  12. R. P. Sear, Heterogeneous nucleation near metastable first-order bulk and surface phase transitions, Langmuir 18, 7571-7576 (2002); link.
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  13. R. P. Sear and P. B. Warren, On the electrical double layer contribution to the interfacial tension of protein crystals, J. Chemical Physics 117, 8074-8079 (2002); cond-mat/0206067.
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  14. R. P. Sear, Flory-Huggins theory for athermal mixtures of hard spheres and larger flexible polymers, Physical Review E 66, 051401 (9 pages) (2002); cond-mat/0206320.
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  15. R. P. Sear, Distribution of the second virial coefficients of globular proteins, Europhysics Letters 60, 938-944 (2002); cond-mat/0207293.
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  16. R. P. Sear, The effects of added salt on the second virial coefficients of the complete proteome of E. coli, J. Chemical Physics 118, 5157-5161 (2003); cond-mat/0209312.
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  17. R. P. Sear and D. Frenkel, Continuous freezing in three dimensions, Physical Review Letters 90, 195701 (4 pages) (2003).
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  18. R. P. Sear, Protein crystals and charged surfaces: interactions and heterogeneous nucleation Physical Review E 67, 061907 (7 pages) (2003); cond-mat/0304369.
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  19. R. P. Sear, Solution stability, neutral evolution and variability in a simple model of globular proteins, J. Chemical Physics 120, 998-1005 (2004); cond-mat/0306440.
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  20. R. P. Sear and J. A. Cuesta, Instabilities in complex mixtures with a large number of components, Physical Review Letters 91, 245701 (4 pages) (2003); cond-mat/0307326.
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  21. R. P. Sear, Specific protein-protein binding in many-component mixtures of proteins, Physical Biology 1, 53-60 (2004); q-bio.BM/0312033.
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  22. R. P. Sear, A statistical theory of nucleation in the presence of uncharacterised impurities, Physical Review E 70, 021605 (8 pages) 2004; cond-mat/0406019.
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  23. R. P. Sear, A model for the accidental catalysis of protein unfolding in vivo, Europhysics Letters 68, 589-595 (2004); q-bio.BM/0409025.
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  24. R. P. Sear, Highly specific protein-protein interactions, evolution and negative design, Physical Biology 1, 166-172 (2004); NI04014-SMC (Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences preprint).
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  25. F. N. Braun, S. Paulsen, R. P. Sear, and P. B. Warren, Miscibility gap in the microbial fitness landscape, Physical Review Letters 94, 178105 (4 pages) (2005).
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  26. R. P. Sear, Formation of a metastable phase due to the presence of impurities, J. Physics: Condensed Matter 17,3997-4004 (2005); cond-mat/0505157.
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  27. R. P. Sear, The cytoplasm of living cells: A functional mixture of thousands of components, J. Physics: Condensed Matter 17,S3587-S3595 (2005).
  28. N. E. Chayen, E. Saridakis and R. P. Sear, Experiment and theory for heterogeneous nucleation of protein crystals in a porous medium, Proc. National Academy Sciences 103, 597-601 (2006). pdf
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  29. R. P. Sear, Heterogeneous and homogeneous nucleation compared: Rapid nucleation on microscopic impurities, J. Physical Chemistry B 110, 4985-4989 (2006).
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  30. E. Karakosta, P. M. Jenneson, R. P. Sear and P. J. Mcdonald, Observations of coarsening of air voids in a polymer--highly-soluble crystalline matrix during dissolution, Physical Review E 74, 011504 (7 pages) (2006).
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  31. A. J. Page and R. P. Sear, Heterogeneous nucleation in and out of pores, Physical Review Letters 97, 065701 (4 pages) (2006).
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  32. R. P. Sear, On the interpretation of quantitative experimental data on nucleation rates using classical nucleation theory, J. Physical Chemistry B 110, 21944-21949 (2006).
  33. R. P. Sear and M. Howard, Modelling dual pathways for the metazoan Spindle Assembly Checkpoint, Proc. National Academy Sciences 103, 16758-16763 (2006); q-bio.SC/0610054. Download pdf
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  34. R. P. Sear, Nucleation at contact lines where fluid-fluid interfaces meet solid surfaces, J. Physics: Condensed Matter 19, 466106 (9 pages) (2007). Download pdf
 

Invited Reviews

     
  1. R. P. Sear, Interactions in protein solutions, Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science 11, 35-39 (2005).
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  2. R. P. Sear, Nucleation: Theory and Applications to Protein Solutions and Colloidal Suspensions, J. Physics: Condensed Matter 19, 033101 (28 pages) (2007). pdf
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  3. R. P. Sear, Dishevelled: a protein that functions in living cells by phase separating, Soft Matter 2, 680-684 (2007). pdf