Welcome to the Cox group homepage! We are a new computational and theoretical chemistry group in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.
A basic aim in chemistry is to understand and control the structure of materials at the atomic scale. We now have many tools at our disposal to characterise and manipulate atomic structure under "clean" conditions e.g., under vacuum. But clean conditions are the exception, not the rule.
In our research, we aim to shed light on how the surrounding solution environment (in essence, salty water) affects the structure and dynamics of materials. We place a particular emphasis on charged surfaces, as not only are these common across science and technology, but they also act as a handle that we can use to control a material's properties via the solution environment.
Polar surfaces
Nanoscale flow
Solvation &
dielectric response
Electrochemical
interfaces
