John Loveday

Professor J S Loveday

John is a member of the following School research institute and research area:

The use of high pressure to produce new potentiasl materials for hydrogen storage and carbon sequestration.

The high-pressure behaviour of planetary ices.

The structures and transitions of ice and water

High pressure neutron scattering

Lecturer and Workshop Class Leader for Physics 1A

Demonstrator for Junior Honours Laboratory

Personal Tutor

John currently offers the following PhD project opportunities:

John has featured in the following recent School news stories:

Subcritical Determination of the Frenkel Line in Liquid Nitrogen, the Emergent Final Picture, and a Universal Equation for the Coordination Number of Real Fluids DOI
Ciprian G. Pruteanu, Ayobami D. Daramola, Marcin Kirsz, Cerian E. A. Robertson, Luke J. Jones, Tianrui Wang, John S. Loveday, Graeme J. Ackland, Oliver L. G. Alderman and John E. Proctor, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 129, 13, p. 3420-3427 (2025)
Structural phase transition in NH₄F under extreme pressure conditions DOI
Umbertoluca Ranieri, Christophe Bellin, Lewis J. Conway, Richard Gaal, John S. Loveday, Andreas Hermann, Abhay Shukla and Livia E. Bove, Communications Chemistry, 7, 1, p. 1-8 (2024)
Krypton and the Fundamental Flaw of the Lennard-Jones Potential DOI
Ciprian G. Pruteanu, John S. Loveday, Graeme J. Ackland and John E. Proctor, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 13, 35, p. 8284-8289 (2022)
Ammonia Mono Hydrate IV: An Attempted Structure Solution DOI
Bernhard Massani, Ciprian G. Pruteanu, Lewis J. Conway, Victor N. Robinson, Andreas Hermann and John S. Loveday, Crystals, 12, 2, p. 1-10 (2022)
Ammonium fluoride’s analogy to ice: possibilities and limitations DOI
L J Conway, K Brown, J. S. Loveday and A. Hermann, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 154, 20, p. 1-12 (2021)