Chris Bower
Principal Researcher Materials ScienceNRC Cambridge
Personal Information
I am a principal researcher in materials science at Nokia Research Centre Cambridge, with an interest in multifunctional surfaces, having a combination of properties such as; super-hydrophobic / self-cleaning / colour changing / sensing. Prior to this I worked for 12 years at Kodak on the fundamental physics of multi-layer thin-film coating for sensitized goods, and developed novel, roll-to-roll surface energy patterning, and high resolution liquid patterning technology, for inkjet and flexographic printing.
Publications
Flexible solid state lithium batteries based on graphene inks Di Wei, Piers Andrew, Huafeng Yang, Yuanyuan Jiang, Fenghua Li, Changsheng Shan, Weidong Ruan, Dongxue Han, Li Niu, Chris Bower, Tapani Ryhänen, Markku Rouvala, Gehan A. J. Amaratunga and Ari Ivaska
J. Mater. Chem., (2011), 21, 9762-9767 DOI: 10.1039/C1JM10826C
Properties of graphene inks stabilized by different functional groups.
Di Wei, Hongwei Li, Dongxue Han, Qixian Zhang, Li Niu, Huafeng Yang, Chris Bower, Piers Andrew and Tapani Ryhänen
Nanotechnology 22: 245702 (2011).
Mechanically Durable Superhydrophobic Surfaces.
Verho, T., Bower, C., Andrew, P., Franssila, S., Ikkala, O. and Ras, R. H. A.
Advanced Materials, 23: 673–678. (2011), doi: 10.1002/adma.201003129
Tuning and Disorder Effects in 3D Colloidal Photonic Crystals.
Pavel Ivanov, Y.-L. D. Ho, David R. E. Snoswell, Nils Elsner, Brian Vincent, Chris Bower, John G. Rarity, and Martin J. Cryan, "Lattice Constant ," J. Display Technol. 6, 14-21 (2010)
Formation of Patterned Arrays of Polystyrene Colloidal Crystal Structures on Flexible Functional Substrates
Niall R. Thomson, Martyn A. McLachlan, Chris L. Bower, David W. McComb. Langmuir 2009 25 (19), 11344-11350
Scalable Cylindrical Metallo-dielectric Metamaterials
Gibbons, N., Baumberg, J. J., Bower, C. L., Kolle, M. and Steiner, U. (2009), Scalable Cylindrical Metallodielectric Metamaterials. Advanced Materials, 21: 3933–3936. doi: 10.1002/adma.200900461
The Sliding Drop Method for Optimising Surface Energies for Patterning in a Roll-to-Roll Process.
Bower C. L., Simister E.A. and Paul K. J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 41 (2008) 174002 (6pp)
Identification of mechanisms competing with self-assembly during directed colloidal deposition
Niall R. Thomson, Chris L. Bower and David W. McComb J. Mater. Chem., 18, 2500-2505, 2008
Continuous coating of discrete areas of a flexible web.
C. L. Bower *, E. A. Simister, E. Bonnist, K. Paul, N. Pightling, T. D. Blake AIChE Journal, 53, 7, 1644-1657, 2007.
Molecular Plasmonics with Tunable Exciton-Plasmon Coupling Strength in J-Aggregate Hybridized Au Nanorod Assemblies. Gregory A. Wurtz,* Paul R. Evans, William Hendren, Ronald Atkinson, Wayne Dickson, Robert J. Pollard, and Anatoly V. Zayats. William Harrison, Christopher Bower. Nano Letters, 7, 5, 1297-1303, 2007.
Modelling and Measurement of Electronically Tunable Photonic Crystals.
M.J. Cryan, D. R. E. Snoswell, C. L. Bower, P. Ivanov, J. G. Rarity, B. Vincent, Transparent Optical Networks, European Symposium on Photonic Crystals, ICTON 2007, Rome, Italy, (Invited), vol 2, 137-140. July 2007.
Electronically tunable photonic crystals. Snoswell, D.R.E. Ivanov, P. Cryan, M.J. Elsner, N. Rarity, J.G. Bower, C.L. Vincent, B. Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2007. QELS '07
Publication Date: 6-11 May 2007,On page(s): 1-2.
Dynamic control of lattice spacing within colloidal crystals
D. R. E. Snoswell, C. L. Bower, P. Ivanov, M. J. Cryan, J. G. Rarity and B. Vincent. New Journal of Physics 8, 267 2006.
The Rheological and microstructural characterisation of the non-linear flow behaviour of concentrated oil-in-water emulsions.
Rheol. Acta. 38, 145-159, 1999.
The Rheology, Processing and Microstructure of Complex Fluids.
R.H. Ottewill + A. R. Rennie (eds) Modern Aspects of Colloidal Dispersions, 279-288, 1998.
Band formation in HPC subjected to steady and oscillatory shear.
International Journal of Fluid Dynamics (1997), Vol. 1, Article 2. http://elecpress.monash.edu.au/ijfd/1997_vol1/paper2/Bower.Abstract.html.
The use of image analysis techniques to characterise aggregates in non-aqueous suspension. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, Volume 127, Issues 1-3, 2 July 1997, Pages 105-112.
Characterization of surfactant effect on aggregates in model aerosol propellant suspensions.
Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology. 44, (1996) 337-341.
The effect of surfactant and solid phase concentration on drug aggregates in model aerosol propellent suspensions.
Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology.48, 4, (1996) 342-346
The fractal morphology of drug aggregates in aerosol propellant suspensions.
International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 118, (1995) 229-235.
A combined rheometer and image analyse for the characterisation of suspensions and aggregates in a shear field.
Meas. Sci. Technol. 6, (1995) 196-201.
Transitions in a spread film of a side-chain liquid crystal polymer.
Bower C, Froggatt S, Laycock R, Musgrove R J, Richardson R M, Rozario G and Zarbakhsh A, Mol. Cryst. and Liq. Cryst.261, 437-451 (1995)
