About me

My name is Dr Julia Percival and I’m a tutor of physical chemistry in the Chemistry Department at Surrey. I did my PhD in solid state chemistry, making new materials for lithium batteries and I now work on that and novel luminescent materials. Topics I’m interested in include crystalline materials, nano-materials, novel synthesis routes and educational research – or in other words, sparkly things, tiny things, making new sparkly tiny things and teaching other people to make sparkly tiny things. I teach physical chemistry, some bio-inorganic and communications modules. I also do quite a bit of chemistry outreach which is really just a good excuse to play with liquid nitrogen!