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Department of Materials Department of Materials Annual Report and Research in Progress Annual Report and Research Department of Materials Imperial College London Exhibition Road London SW7 2AZ Department of Materials UK Annual Report and Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 6734 2009–10 Fax: +44 (0)20 7594 6757 Research in Progress 2009–10 www.imperial.ac.uk/materials 1 Department of Materials Research in Progress and Annual Report 2009–10 www.imperial.ac.uk/materials Contents The information in this publication was compiled by: 5 Introduction by the Head of 45 Undergraduate students 111 Institute for Biomedical Dagmar Durham and Sonia Tomasetig Engineering Department 45 Undergraduate courses Designed by: Helen Davison 112 Centre for Advanced Stuctural 46 Sources of support for Printed by: Shanleys 9 Annual Report 2009–10 Ceramics Copyright © June 2011 undergraduates 113 Institute for Security Science Department of Materials, Imperial College London 11 People 46 Industrial experience and work Technology 11 Our academic, research and placements All rights reserved. No part of this publication support staff 113 Materials Characterisation may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or 47 Final year undergraduate projects transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, 15 Visiting researchers 49 Postgraduate school 117 International links mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, 18 Our students 49 Postgraduate masters courses 117 KAUST without the permission of the publisher. 25 Summary of staff, visiting 50 Postgraduate research students 117 IDEA League Department of Materials researchers and students 118 NUS and NTU Imperial College London 50 Sources of support for 27 Ins and outs postgraduate research students Exhibition Road 119 Current research sponsors London SW7 2AZ 27 Appointments 51 Postgraduate Research Day UK 121 Research themes 28 Promotions 55 Postdoctoral research staff Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 6734 28 Leavers 55 Postdoctoral Research Staff 123 Biomaterials and tissue Fax: +44 (0)20 7594 6757 29 Departmental management Committee engineering and committee structure 55 Postdoctoral research staff 124 Research highlight numbers 125 Project summaries 33 Degrees and PhDs awarded 55 Postdoctoral Researcher 139 Ceramics and glasses 33 Summary of all awards 2005–10 Symposium 140 Research highlight 33 MEng Materials Science and 57 Research and industrial 141 Project summaries Engineering colloquia 157 Advanced alloys 33 MEng Aerospace Materials 158 Research highlight 33 MEng Materials and Nuclear 61 Visitors to the Department 159 Project summaries Engineering 65 Out and about 167 Nantechnology and nanoscale 33 MEng Biomaterials and Tissue characterisation Engineering 65 Academic staff 168 Research highlights 33 BEng Materials Science and 75 Research assistants and Engineering postdoctoral research associates 170 Project summaries 33 BEng Materials with Management 77 Postgraduate research students 179 Functional materials 34 PhDs awarded 81 National and international 180 Research highlight 181 Project summaries 37 Prizes, awards and profile 193 Theory and simulation of materials distinctions 87 Research in Progress 194 Research highlight 37 Highlights 2009–10 195 Project summaries 39 Academic staff 89 Academic staff profiles 41 Postdoctoral research 201 Publications associates and assistants 109 Materials-based university 211 Grants and contracts 41 Undergraduate and research centres awarded postgraduate students 109 London Centre for Nanotechnology 109 Thomas Young Centre 213 Map of Imperial College London 110 Centre for Nuclear Engineering 110 Nuclear Engineering Doctorate 214 Credits Programme 110 The DIAMOND University Consortium Cover image 111 Energy Futures Lab An artificially coloured SEM micrograph of zinc oxide nanorods grown from hydrothermal deposition in aqueous solution. This image, taken by Jonathan Downing, was selected as a ‘Science as Art’ finalist at the MRS conference in December 2010. 1 Department of Materials Annual Report and Research in Progress 2009–10 www.imperial.ac.uk/materials www.imperial.ac.uk/materials Department of Materials Annual Report and Research in Progress 2009–10 3 Introduction Welcome to the new-look joint edition of the Department of Materials Annual Report and Research in Progress 2009–10. The Annual Report reviews the activities of the Department for the academic year October 2009 – September 2010 and the Research in Progress outlines the research life of the Department during the same period. Highlights of the past year include the promotions Large research awards in the last 12 months of Drs Sandrine Heutz, Natalie Stingelin, Andrew include: Horsfield and Arash Mostofi to Senior Lecturer and • a National Institutes of Health (NIH) award Dr David McPhail to Reader in Surface Analysis. valued at £1.825 million to fund a project These promotions are the end product of much entitled Respiratory effects of silver and hard work, dedication and ability, so well done to carbon nanomaterials with Drs Mary Ryan and each of them. We were also thrilled to be awarded Alexandra Porter as Co-Investigators an Athena Silver SWAN award which recognises and celebrates our good practice on recruiting, • a Natural Environment Research Council retaining and promoting women in SET in higher (NERC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) education. Other highlights include Professor award valued at ~£1.1 million, to fund a project Molly Stevens’ number two ranking in the Top 10 entitled Risk assessment for manufactured UK scientists under the age of 40 list in The Times, nanoparticles used in consumer products Professor Bill Lee’s election to The American (RAMNUC), with Drs Mary Ryan and Alexandra Ceramic Society (ACerS) Board of Directors and Porter again as Co-Investigators the publication of a special issue of Philosophical • an ERC starting grant valued at €1.25 million Magazine to mark a landmark paper by Professor for a project entitled The targeting potential of Mike Finnis, first published in 1984. carbon nanotubes at the blood brain barrier, led by Dr Alexandra Porter • an EPSRC award valued at £1.3 million (£565,000 to Imperial) to fund a joint project (UCL and Imperial) entitled Nano-scale SQUID magnetometry of oxide heterointerfaces with myself (Professor Neil Alford) and Professor David McComb as Principal and Co- Investigators respectively • a Programme grant award valued at ~£3.8 million for a project entitled Nanostructured functional materials for energy efficient refrigeration, energy harvesting and production of hydrogen from water with Professors Neil Alford, Lesley Cohen (Physics) and Nic Harrison (Chemistry) • an EPSRC Leadership Fellowship award to Dr David Dye valued at £1.4 million for the project Reducing emissions by exploiting stress- induced martensitic transformations • an EPSRC/Wellcome Trust grant award valued at ~£1.3 million led by Professor Molly Stevens Neil delivering an acceptance speech for his Honorary Member to fund the Medical Engineering Solutions in Award, University of Nova Gorica Osteoarthritis Centre of Excellence at Imperial 4 Department of Materials Annual Report and Research in Progress 2009–10 www.imperial.ac.uk/materials www.imperial.ac.uk/materials Department of Materials Annual Report and Research in Progress 2009–10 5 The Department has internationally- research support from over 60 Imperial Junior Research Fellowships by the Rector on 9 December 2009. We also abroad in high quality research institutions and/or leading research programmes in the companies either as research contracts to Drs Cecilia Mattevi and Fang Xie, a commissioned the new thermal analysis support their studies. synthesis, processing, microstructure, or student support. The Department’s Natural Science and Engineering Council equipment purchased from Netszch. In the properties and modelling of a broad research volume during 2009–10 was of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate area of functional materials, we bought a THz Our PhD student intake in October 2009 was 36 in excess of £7.5 million from Research spectrometer, a new pulsed laser deposition UHV which puts our PhD numbers at well over 100. In range of materials (metals, ceramics, Scholarship, valued at $CAD21,000 1: Thermal analysis semiconductors, glasses, metal- glass- Councils, industry and Government for three years to HoKwon Kim, and a apparatus, an e-beam/sputter deposition unit addition, the past year has, in terms of number of equipment and ceramic- matrix composites) bodies and the 2010–11 budget forecast Fluor corporation scholarship valued and two RHEED (reflection high energy electron PhDs awarded, been the most successful in the 2: E-beam/sputter directed to diverse applications such as is £7.8 million. Overall, the Department at £2,000 to Shakiba Kaveh (fourth deposition) systems. Department’s history. We graduated 36 students deposition unit nuclear, solid oxide fuel cells, aerospace, holds grants valued at £46.5 million. year MEng student), to name a few. in the 2009–10 period, which is five more than in 3: Pulsed laser deposition biomedical, automotive and electronic. Our undergraduate programme continues to 2008–09 (31) and 21 more than in 2007–08 (15). UHV apparatus with Our Academic Excellence Alliance New appointments during this period thrive. During 2009–10, we enrolled 80 new We congratulate our RHEED system Our expanding portfolio mean that partnership with King Abdullah include: Professor Norbert Klein from undergraduates which brings our current total graduates and wish we now group our research into six University of Science
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