Academic Publications

P. Ball, “Natural strategies for the molecular engineer”, Nanotechnology 13, R15 (2002).

P. Ball, “The physical modelling of society: a historical perspective”, Physica A 314, 1 (2002).

P. Ball, “The physical modelling of human social systems”, ComPlexUs 1, 190 (2003) [published November 2004].

P. Ball, “Molecular Biomimetics”, in Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry 879-886. Marcel Dekker, 2004.

P. Ball, “Synthetic biology for nanotechnology”, Nanotechnology 16, R1 (2005).

P. Ball, “Collective behaviour and the physics of society”, Institute for Cultural Research Monograph Series No.52 (2007).

P. Ball, “Water as an active constituent in cell biology”, Chemical Reviews 108, 74-108 (2008). Download PDF.

P. Ball, “Chemistry and Power in Recent American Fiction”, published in The Public Image of Chemistry, eds J. Schummer, B. Bensaude-Vincent & B. Van Tiggelen (World Scientific, 2007).

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. Available here.