School of the Physical Sciences
About this community
The School of the Physical Sciences is one of six Schools making up the academic work of the University. It covers Astronomy, Chemistry, Earth Science, Geography, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Mathematics and Physics. The School’s aim is to contribute to our understanding of the physical world through excellence in observational, theoretical and experimental science and to extend quantitative, qualitative and combined methodologies to address problems in the fields of biology, technology, medicine, social science and the humanities. In pursuit of these goals, the School coordinates objectives in research, teaching, and infrastructure.
Find out more about the School of the Physical Sciences at http://www.physsci.cam.ac.uk/.
Sub-communities within this community
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Cambridge eScience Centre (CeSC)
Part of the Centre for Scientific Computing; aims to coordinate and maintain CamGrid, to enable new scientific advances by using novel computing paradigms, and to develop new generic Grid-based tools -
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP)
Carries out research of world-class excellence in a broad range of subjects across applied mathematics and theoretical physics -
Department of Earth Sciences
Research across the whole spectrum of the Earth Sciences, including the areas of Geophysics, Geochemistry, Mineral Sciences, Petrology, Palaeontology, Vulcanism, Marine Sciences, and Palaeoceanography -
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy
Includes research in the field of biomedical materials, in parallel with historically strong activities in the development of structural materials and processes, and of device materials
Recent Submissions
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Growth and characterisation of multifunctional nanocomposite coatings
Novel nanocomposite coatings of the type Fe-Ti-N and Fe-Ti-O-N, having in-situ formed periodic multiphase nanocolumnar microstructures, have been developed by a two-target reactive magnetron sputter deposition and ... -
Anaerobic, NADH-Dependent Haem Breakdown in a Family of Haemoproteins
(2022-05-20)Many pathogens function by internalising the haem molecules of their host organism and breaking down the porphyrin scaffold to sequester the Fe2+ ion. Typically, this breakdown mechanism is mediated by a haem oxygenase. ... -
High pressure studies of superconductivity and anomalous normal states in novel quantum materials
This dissertation contains a wide range of studies of many intriguing physical systems, including a novel incommensurate host-guest structure, strange metal, low-dimensional system, iron-based superconductivity, and a ... -
Thermoelectric Properties and Transport of Semicrystalline Conjugated Polymer and Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Composites
Research into carbon nanotubes (CNT):polymer composites for thermoelectric applications have greatly expanded in recent years, aiming to combine the high power factor of CNT networks and the low thermal conductivity of ...
