Student Thesis

PhD

• Liam Chandler, Fabricating Multiscale Quasiperiodic Architectures: Artificial Spin-Ice and Molecular Thin Film, 2025
• Yunxi Jiang, Current-driven Magnetic Skyrmions for Encoding/Storing Information: Manipulation and Dynamics in Nanoscale Structures, 2025
• Oscar Shedwick, Surface Chemical Composition, Atomic Structure and Oxidation of the Ga3Ni2 Intermetallic Catalyst, 2025
• Naima Saadi, Multiscale Quasiperiodic Materials, 2024
• Amnah Alofi, Surfaces of Complex Metallic Alloys and Their Adsorption Properties, 2023
• Dominic Burnie,  Icosahedral Ag-In-Yb surfaces: clean surfaces, atomic motion, and adsorbate structures, 2022
• Sam Coates, Quasicrystal systems with simple symmetries, 2019
• Mike Lowe, Surface Studies of Model Intermetallic Catalyst, 2015
• Sanger Hars, Surface Structure and Epitaxy on Ag-In-Rare Earth Quasicrystals and Related Approximants, 2015 
• Kirsty Young, Epitaxy on quasicrystals: metals, semi-metals and molecules, 2012
• Ian McLeod, Epitaxial growth of lead and bismuth on silver and silver-rich alloys, 2013
• Peter Nugent, Surfaces of the Icosahedral Ag-In-Yb Quasicrystal: Structure, Reactivity and Thin Film Growth, 2011

MSc

• Charlotte Conway, Growth of C60 on the Twofold Surface of Quasicrystal Al-Ni-Co, 2024
• Josh Cannon, Characterisation of Ga3Ni2 Surface Structure, 2022
• Alan-Francis Kirby, Atomic-scale characterisation of the Ni-Al(100) surface and preliminary investigation into its viability as a template for Zn-Pc thin film growth, 2016
• Lucas Bridge,  2015
• Sam Coates, Quasicrystals as Catalysts for the Steam Reforming of Methanol, 2015
• Kai Oliver McGilligan, Surface Analysis of Ag-In-Yb Quasicrystal Approximant, 2012
• Gwyn Evans, A Surface Study of the 1/1 Quasicrystal Approximant Ag-In-Gd, 2012
• Chris Hodson, Study of the surface structure of i-Ag-In-Yb quasicrystal and the thin film growth of Cu, 2011
• Nick Cross, Bi growth on Al-Pd-Mn Quasicrystal, 2009
• Ana Ribeiro, Pb Nano Islands of Magic Heights Formed on the Surface of i-Ag42In42Yb16 Quasicrystal, 2009
• Dr Mike Darlington, LEED and STM study of the fivefold surface of Ag-In-Yb quasicrystal, 2008

BSc

• Tom Bonnar, Atomic structure and chemical composition analysis of the (100) surface of the In3Ni2 intermetallic catalyst, 2025
• Tommy Aschbrook, Surface Structural and Chemical Analysis of In3Ni2(2-10) Intermetallic Catalyst, 2024
• Alfredo Tarttelin, Analysis of the (001) Surface of Ga3Ni2 Inter-metallic Catalyst, 2024
• Daniel Gouldsbrough, Computing Quasiperiodic Patterns in Python, 2021
• Jamaal Hassan, Modelling of Pb Overlayer Structure Formed on Icosahedral Ag-In-Yb Quasicrystal,  2021
• Ben Patrick, XPS analysis of indium absorption on Ag-In-Yb, 2021
• Thomas Coppell, Probing Atoms Using Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy, 2020
• Harry Hibbert, Pt(111) Surface Preparation for Oxide Quasicrystal Thin-Film Growth, 2018
• Liam Joyce, Atomic Scale Characterisation of Organic Thin Film Growth on the Two-Fold Al-Pd-Mn Quasicrystal, 2017
• Robyn Griffiths, Zinc phthalocyanine on aluminium dosed complex metallic alloys, 2017
• Halifah Mohammad, Modelling of Pb Overlayer Structure Formed on Icosahedral Ag-In-Yb Quasicrystal, 2010
• Thomas Mills, Characterising Quasicrystal Surfaces using STM, 2010

Summer Projects

• Thomas Huchard, Growth of Pentacene molecules on quasicrystal surfaces, Ecole des Mines de Nancy, Graduate School of Engineering, France, 2018
• Adrien Letoffe, Atomic-scale characterization of surfaces and thin films, Ecole des Mines de Nancy, Graduate School of Engineering, France, 2015
• Charles Roux, Use of STM and LEED in surface characterisation, Ecole des Mines de Nancy, Graduate School of Engineering, France, 2014
• Gediminas Simutis, Characterisation of clean 2-fold, 3-fold and 5-fold AgInYb quasicrystal surfaces and oxidation study using X-rays and ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopies, Department of Physics, the University of Liverpool, 2009