Summary
Tommy Horozov is a recipient of the EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship Award (2006-2011), a senior lecturer at the University of Hull (2015- ) and visiting Professor at the Department of Materials Chemistry, University of Vienna (2017-).
He holds a PhD degree in Physical Chemistry from the University of Sofia and has been conducting fundamental and applied research on various aspects of material science.
These include the adsorption of surfactants on surfaces, the behaviour of solid particles in thin liquid films, emulsions and foams, solid wetting and open microfluidics, hydrogels, porous polymers and composite materials.
Journal Article
Capillary Assembly of Anisotropic Particles at Cylindrical Fluid-Fluid Interfaces
Eatson, J. L., Gordon, J. R., Cegielski, P., Giesecke, A. L., Suckow, S., Rao, A., …Buzza, D. M. A. (2023). Capillary Assembly of Anisotropic Particles at Cylindrical Fluid-Fluid Interfaces. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 39(17), 6006–6017. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c00016
Using adsorption kinetics to assemble vertically aligned nanorods at liquid interfaces for metamaterial applications
Morgan, S. O., Muravitskaya, A., Lowe, C., Adawi, A. M., Bouillard, J. G., Horozov, T. S., …Buzza, D. M. (2022). Using adsorption kinetics to assemble vertically aligned nanorods at liquid interfaces for metamaterial applications. Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, 24, 11000-11013. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1cp05484h
Adsorption trajectories of nonspherical particles at liquid interfaces
Buzza, D. M. A., Stasiuk, G. J., Horozov, T. S., Adawi, A. M., Bouillard, J. G., Lowe, C., …Morgan, S. O. (2021). Adsorption trajectories of nonspherical particles at liquid interfaces. Physical Review E, 103(4), Article 042604. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.103.042604
Research interests
Colloidal particles
• behaviour at liquid interfaces and in thin liquid films
• particle-stabilised foams and emulsions
• non-spherical and Janus particles
Wetting and capillarity
• contact angles of solid particles and surfaces
• ‘smart’ porous coatings for anti-biofouling
• open microfluidics
Advanced materials
• porous and composite materials (incl. graphene containing composites)
• self-assembled nano-particle structures for nano-photonics & metamerials
• super-stretchable hydrogels
Co-investigator
Project
Funder
Grant
Started
Status
Project
POSEIDON 2019
Funder
EC European Commission
Grant
£473,535.00
Started
1 February 2020
Status
Ongoing
Project
Self assembly of two dimensional colloidal alloys for metamaterials applications
Funder
EPSRC Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council
Grant
£654,933.00
Started
26 January 2015
Status
Complete