Academic Publications

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.

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).