Research Topics

Research in the Ward group is wide ranging, spanning crystal design and engineering, physical and electronic properties of molecular solids, polymorphism and crystallography, nucleation and growth of organic crystals, materials and medicine, scanning probe microscopy and interfacial phenomena, and the creation of complex materials using on multi recognition site self-assembly.

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Contact Insecticides: Polymorphism and Lethality of Crystal Forms

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Crystallization under Nanoscale Confinement

 

 

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Crystallization Processes and Mechanisms

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Crystallization of Symmetry-controlled Colloidal Particle Assemblies

 

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Dislocation-actuated Crystal Growth and Crystal Growth Inhibition

 

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Guided Motion of Microscale Swimmers

 

 

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Hydrogen-bonded Molecular Frameworks: Design and Function

 

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Simulations of Screw Dislocations in Molecular Crystals