Staff profile

• Nucleation
• Phase-change processes
• Multi-phase fluid mechanics
• Wetting and interfaces
• Geophysical flows

Journal Article

• Crystals in Rhyolitic Melts Can Nucleate Multiple Bubbles: An Experimentally Constrained Model
  
  Johnson, Q., Gardner, J. E., Aubin, W., Sullivan, P., Wadsworth, F. B., Llewellin, E. W., Carley, T., Kusumaatmaja, H., & Sahagian, D. (in press). Crystals in Rhyolitic Melts Can Nucleate Multiple Bubbles: An Experimentally Constrained Model. Bulletin of Volcanology.
• Freezing under motion: How surface vibrations suppress ice nucleation in water nanofilms
  
  Chen, P., Sullivan, P., Pillai, R., & Datta, S. (2026). Freezing under motion: How surface vibrations suppress ice nucleation in water nanofilms. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 165(2), Article 024703. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0335640
• The nucleation and growth of mixed H2O–CO2 bubbles in magmas
  
  Sullivan, P., Llewellin, E. W., Wadsworth, F. B., Colucci, S., & Kusumaatmaja, H. (2026). The nucleation and growth of mixed H2O–CO2 bubbles in magmas. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 472, Article 108538. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2026.108538
• Magma in the microwave
  
  Wadsworth, F. B., Carley, T., Llewellin, E., Foster, A., Sullivan, P., Sahagian, D., & Gardner, J. (2026). Magma in the microwave. Volcanica, 9(1), 219-230. https://doi.org/10.30909/vol/yalm7926
• Obsidian forms by slow cooling.
  
  Llewellin, E. W., Wadsworth, F. B., Sullivan, P., Coumans, J. P., Dobson, K. J., Humphreys, M. C. S., Allabar, A., Gardner, J. E., Brooker, R. A., Nowak, M., Connolley, T., Havard, T., & Allgood, C. (2026). Obsidian forms by slow cooling. Nature Communications, 17, Article 3266. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-70110-1
• Ionic adsorption on bulk nanobubble interfaces and its uncertain role in diffusive stability.
  
  Dockar, D., Sullivan, P., Mifsud, J., Gibelli, L., & Borg, M. K. (2025). Ionic adsorption on bulk nanobubble interfaces and its uncertain role in diffusive stability. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 695, Article 137747. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2025.137747
• Nanoscale surface effects on heterogeneous vapor bubble nucleation
  
  Sullivan, P., Dockar, D., & Pillai, R. (2025). Nanoscale surface effects on heterogeneous vapor bubble nucleation. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 162, Article 184501. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0259208