Surface Science

Professor Alex Routh has long been interested in colloidal suspensions, and today he told us about some of his recent work in the field.  When a pool of fluid containing a suspension of particles  is left to dry, the liquid slowly evaporates and the particles consolidate into a solid, which eventually cracks. We can see

Professor Alex Routh gave a fascinating seminar this week on the production process of rubber gloves. It’s a subject that not many of us think about, but the scale and significance of rubber glove manufacture is enormous. 300 billion latex gloves are produced globally every year, and the process is far from environmentally friendly or