Academic Publications

P. Ball, “Water as a biomolecule”, published in ChemPhysChem, 9, 2677-2685 (2009)

“Forging patterns and making waves from biology to geology: a commentary on Turing (1952) ‘The chemical basis of morphogenesis”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 370, special issue to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the journal.

P. Ball, “Making Life: A Comment on ‘Playing God in Frankenstein’s footsteps: Synthetic Biology and the Meaning of Life’ by Henk van den Belt (2009)”, Nanoethics 4, 129-132 (2010).

P. C. Ball & R. Evans, “On the mechanism for hysteresis of gas adsorption on mesoporous substrates”, Europhysics Letters 4(6), 715-721 (1987).

P. Ball, “More than a bystander”, Nature 478, 467-468 (2011). Available here.

P. C. Ball & R. Evans, “The density profile of a confined fluid: Comparisons of density functional theory and simulation”, Molecular Physics 63, 159-163 (1987).

P. Ball, “Concluding remarks: Cum grano salis“, Faraday Discussions 160, 405-414 (2013).

P. Ball & R. Evans, “Structure and adsorption at gas-solid interfaces: layering transitions from a continuum theory”, Journal of Chemical Physics 89, 4412-4423 (1988).

P. Ball, “The Importance of Water”, in Astrochemistry and Astrobiology, eds I. W. M. Smith, C. S. Cockell & S. Leach, p.169. Springer, Heidelberg, 2013.

P. C. Ball & R. Evans, “Temperature dependence of gas adsorption on a mesoporous solid: capillary criticality and hysteresis”, Langmuir 5, 714-723 (1989).