Pre-2001 Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals:

  1. R. P. Sear, M. D. Amos and G. Jackson, Bonded hard-sphere (BHS) theory and computer simulations of polyatomic hard-sphere models of alkanes and their derivatives, Molecular Physics 80, 777-787 (1993).

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  2. R. P. Sear and G. Jackson, Theory and computer simulation of hard-sphere site models of ring molecules, Molecular Physics 81, 801-811 (1994).

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  3. R. P. Sear and G. Jackson, Thermodynamic perturbation theory for association into chains and rings, Physical Review E 50, 386-394 (1994).

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  4. R. P. Sear and G. Jackson, Theory for hydrogen bonding nematic liquid crystals, Molecular Physics 82, 473-485 (1994).

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  5. R. P. Sear and G. Jackson, Thermodynamic perturbation theory for association into doubly bonded dimers, Molecular Physics 82, 1033-1048 (1994).

  6. R. P. Sear and G. Jackson, Stability of the nematic phase of a mixture of aligned cylinders with respect to the smectic and columnar phases, J. Chemical Physics 102, 2622-2627 (1995).

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  7. R. P. Sear and G. Jackson, Stability of the nematic phase of dimerising aligned cylinders with respect to the smectic and columnar phases, Molecular Physics 83, 961-970 (1994).

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  8. R. P. Sear and G. Jackson, The gas, liquid and solid phases of dimerising hard spheres and hard-sphere dumbbells, J. Chemical Physics 102 , 939-946 (1995).

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  9. R. P. Sear and G. Jackson, Smectic-A and Smectic-A2 phases in aligned cylinders with a cylindrical attractive square well at one end, Physical Review E 52, 3881-3891 (1995).

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  10. R. P. Sear and G. Jackson, The reentrant nematic phase in a mixture of associating cylinders, Physical Review Letters 74, 4261-4264 (1995).

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  11. R. P. Sear and G. Jackson, Theory for the phase behaviour of a mixture of a rod-like colloid and a rod-like polymer, J. Chemical Physics , 103, 8684-8693 (1995).

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  12. R. P. Sear and G. Jackson, The ring integral in thermodynamic perturbation theory for association, Molecular Physics 87, 517-522 (1995).

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  13. R. P. Sear, Translational ordering in systems of rods and discs: the effect of discretising the orientational and/or the translational degrees of freedom, Molecular Physics 88, 1427-1438 (1996).

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  14. R. P. Sear, The low density fluid phase of dipolar hard spheres, Physical Review Letters 76, 2310-2313 (1996).

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  15. R. P. Sear and G. Jackson, Thermodynamic perturbation theory for association with bond cooperativity, J. Chemical Physics 105, 1113-1120 (1996).

  16. R. P. Sear, Ordering in many component Widom-Rowlinson models, J. Chemical Physics 104, 9948-9955 (1996).

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  17. R. P. Sear and B. M. Mulder, Phase behaviour of a binary symmetric mixture of hard rods, J. Chemical Physics 105, 7727-7734 (1996). Erratum, J. Chemical Physics 106, 3827 (1997).

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  18. S. C. McGrother, R. P. Sear and G. Jackson, The phase diagram of associating hard spherocylinders from simulation and theory, J. Chemical Physics 106, 7315-7330 (1997).

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  19. R. P. Sear and B. M. Mulder, Phase behaviour of mixtures of wormlike micelles and mixtures of wormlike micelles with small colloidal particles, J. Physical Chemistry B 101, 4839-4844 (1997).

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  20. R. P. Sear and D. Frenkel, Phase separation in mixtures of a rodlike colloid and two or more rodlike polymers, J. Chemical Physics 105 , 10632-10636 (1996).

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  21. R. P. Sear and D. Frenkel, Phase behaviour of colloid plus polydisperse polymer mixtures, Physical Review E 55, 1677-1681 (1997).

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  22. R. P. Sear, Cohesion and aggregation of flexible hard rods with an attractive interaction, Physical Review E 55, 5820-5824 (1997).

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  23. R. P. Sear, Phase behaviour of athermal mixtures of rigid-rod and flexible polymers, J. de Physique II 7, 877-886 (1997).

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  24. R. P. Sear, Entropy driven phase separation in mixtures of small colloidal particles and semidilute polymers, Physical Review E 56, 4463-4466 (1997).

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  25. R. P. Sear, Theory for polymer coils with necklaces of micelles, J. Physics: Condensed Matter 10, 1677-1686 (1998); cond-mat/9708075 .

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  26. R. P. Sear and B. M. Mulder, The absence of a liquid phase in van der Waals fluids at high dimensionality, Molecular Physics 93 , 181-185 (1998).

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  27. R. P. Sear, The coil--globule transition of polymers of long rigid monomers connected by flexible spacers, J. Chemical Physics 107, 7477-7483 (1997); cond-mat/9707283 .

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  28. R. P. Sear, Depletion driven adsorption of colloidal rods onto a hard wall, Physical Review E 57 1983-1989 (1998); cond-mat/9709036 .

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  29. J. P. K. Doye, R. P. Sear and D. Frenkel, The effect of chain stiffness on the phase behaviour of isolated homopolymers, J. Chemical Physics 108, 2134-2142 (1998); cond-mat/9709133 .

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  30. R. P. Sear, A coil--globule transition of a semiflexible polymer driven by the addition of spherical particles, Physical Review E 58, 724-728 (1998); cond-mat/9711011 .

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  31. R. P. Sear, Polymer induced phase coexistence in systems of lamellar phases, cond-mat/9709205 .

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  32. R. P. Sear, Scattering from small colloidal particles in a semidilute polymer solution, European Physical J. B 1, 313-317 (1998); cond-mat/9711044 .

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  33. J. A. Cuesta and R. P. Sear, Phase transitions in simple models of rod-like and disc-like micelles, European Physical J. B 8, 233-243 (1999).

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  34. E. J. M. Filipe, L. A. M. Pereira, L. M. B. Dias, J. C. G. Calado, R. P. Sear and G. Jackson, Shape effects in molecular liquids: Phase equilibria of binary mixtures involving cyclic molecules, J. Physical Chemistry B 101, 11243-11248 (1997).

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  35. R. P. Sear, The stability limit of the fluid phase of polydisperse sticky spheres, Molecular Physics 96, 1013-1017 (1999); cond-mat/9805201 .

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  36. R. P. Sear, Phase separation and crystallisation of polydisperse hard spheres, Europhysics Letters 44, 531-535 (1998); cond-mat/9806205 .

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  37. R. P. Sear, The low temperature interface between the gas and solid phases of hard spheres with a short-ranged attraction, Physical Review E 59, 6838-6841 (1999); cond-mat/9810018 .

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  38. R. P. Sear, Depletion induced demixing in polydisperse mixtures of hard spheres, Physical Review Letters 82, 4244-4247 (1999); cond-mat/9811150 .

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  39. R. P. Sear and W. M. Gelbart, Microphase separation versus the vapour-liquid transition in systems of spherical particles, J. Chemical Physics 110, 4582-4588 (1999).

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  40. R. P. Sear, S.-W. Chung, G. Markovich, W. M. Gelbart and J. R. Heath, Spontaneous patterning of quantum dots at the air-water interface, Physical Review E 59, R6255-R6258 (1999).

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  41. R. P. Sear, Adsorption of polydisperse polymer chains, J. Chemical Physics 111, 2255-2258 (1999); cond-mat/9901014 .

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  42. R. P. Sear, Classical nucleation theory for the nucleation of the solid phase of spherical particles with a short-ranged attraction, J. Chemical Physics 111, 2001-2007 (1999); cond-mat/9903301 .

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  43. R. P. Sear, Phase behaviour of a simple model of globular proteins, J. Chemical Physics 111, 4800-4806 (1999); cond-mat/9904426 .

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  44. R. P. Sear, Absence of the liquid phase when the attraction is not pairwise additive,  Physical Review E 61, 651-655 (2000);  cond-mat/9909088 .

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  45. R. P. Sear, Fluid-fluid transitions of hard spheres with a very short-range attraction, Physical Review E 61, 6019-6022 (2000); cond-mat/9910155.

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  46. R. P. Sear, Metastability and nucleation in the dilute fluid phase of a simple model of globular proteins, cond-mat/9912199.

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  47. R. P. Sear, Phase behaviour of a model of colloidal particles with a fluctuating internal state, Physical Review E 62, 2501-2509 (2000); cond-mat/0002249.

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  48. R. P. Sear, Molecular dynamics of a dense fluid of polydisperse hard spheres, J. Chemical Physics 113, 4732-4739 (2000); cond-mat/0004224.

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  49. N. Clarke, J. A. Cuesta, R. P. Sear, P. Sollich and A. Speranza, Phase equilibria in the polydisperse Zwanzig model of hard rods, J. Chemical Physics 113, 5817-5829 (2000); cond-mat/0005321.

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  50. D. C. Andrei, J. N. Hay, J. L. Keddie, R. P. Sear and S. G. Yeates, Surface levelling of thermosetting powder coating: Theory and experiment, J. Phys. D: Applied Physics 33, 1975-1981 (2000).

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Conference proceedings:

  1. W. M. Gelbart, R. P. Sear, J. R. Heath and S. Chaney, Array formation in nano-colloids: Theory and experiment in 2D, Faraday Discussions 112 , 299-308 (1999).

Book chapter

  1. R. P. Sear and G. Jackson, Theory of phase equilibria in associating systems: Chain and ring aggregates, amphiphiles, and liquid crystals, Proceedings of the International School of Physics `Enrico Fermi' Course CXXIX (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1995)