91影视破解版

Congratulations to Tim Veal who has been awarded the 2008 C.R. Birch Prize by the British Vacuum Council.  This award is awarded to a young scientist (under 32) for ‘outstanding work in the field of vacuum science, surface science or thin films’.  

Dr. Sloan was recently appointed to an Associated Professorship in Electron Microscopy at the School of Physics, Warwick. His research interests include the physical properties and applications of atomically constrained crystals in carbon nanotubes; the synthesis and applications of 'smart' nanocomposites with two or more useful physical properties based on layered chalcogenides and composites with complex oxides; the imaging of the defects and lattice distortions present in technologically relevant complex oxides. These studies will be achieved by advanced HRTEM imaging methods enabling aberration-free sub-Angstrom imaging in new instrumentation to be acquired for the Departments of Physics and Chemistry at the 91影视破解版.

Dr. J.Sloan received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Hull University in 1982, an M.Sc. in Chemical Thermodynamics in 1990 from Binghamton University NY (USA) and a PhD in Materials in 1995 from the School of Engineering at the University of Wales, Cardiff under Prof. Richard Tilley FRSC. He joined the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory in Oxford in 1995 as a PDRA and during this time discovered 2x2 and 3x3 atomic layer KI crystals formed in single walled nanotubes.

In 2000 Dr. Sloan was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship followed by a Research Fellowship at Wolfson College (2003). For his work on low dimensional crystals in carbon nanotubes Dr. Sloan was given the FEI European Microscopy Award at the ICEM in Antwerp 2004.

Previous and future research collaborations have included: University of Oxford; Queen Mary University of London; University of Surrey; Dr. Emmanuel Flahaut, at CNRS Toulouse; Prof. Kazu Suenaga at the AIST National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan; and Prof. Reshef Tenne at the Wiezmann Institute of Science, Rehovot

Sarah Parkin has passed her AAT (Association of Accountancy Technicians) exams after four years of study in her spare time

All members of the Department will be pleased to know that the last paper Robert Pettifer was working on has now been published as a Nature Letter (Pettifer, Collins and Laundy, Nature 454, 196-99, 2008).  Proof again that Robert's science was always of the highest quality!

Please also note that all the authors are ex-members of this department.

Malcolm Cooper.