Academic Publications

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).

P. Ball & J. E. Hallsworth, “Water structure and chaotropicity: their uses and abuses”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17, 8297-8305 (2015). Available here.

P. C. Ball, A. Inaba, J. A. Morrison, M. V. Smalley & R. K. Thomas, “The librational ground state of monodeuteromethane adsorbed on the surface of graphite”, Journal of Chemical Physics 92, 1372-1385 (1990).