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John Finney
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University College London
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(you can perhaps tell how old he is from the vintage of the Larry cartoon .....)

What is it?
Well - it's the first new phase of ice to be discovered since the 1930s. Werner Kuhs (now in Göttingen) and I have been chasing it since we first saw something odd in a neutron diffraction pattern under pressure at the ILL in the early 80s.

But it took the persistence, imagination, and cunning of Colin Lobban - then the UCL Condensed Matter Group's first Ph.D. student - to back it into a corner and solve its structure from powder diffraction.

Beautiful, isn't it?

You can read more about it in Nature 391, 268-270, (1998).

And more about my research and other foibles on this site.


Research Interests

        Structures of Ices
        Confused Ice: New Light on the Hydrogen Bond?
        Activity-Dynamics Relationships in Enzymes
        Hydrophobic Interactions and Hydration Shells

Publications

        1998
        1999
        2000
        2001
        2002
        2003