University of Leeds-Equipment Account
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Leeds
Department Name: Research & Innovation Services
Abstract
This application seeks an EPSRC Capital Grant of £1,079,600 towards the shortfall of £2,372,600 required to install a world leading aberration-corrected & monochromated dedicated scanning transmission electron microscope (SuperSTEM3) at the EPSRC National Facility for Scanning Transmission Electron-Microscopy (STEM) (EPSRC Reference: RE-10-0005-EPSRC-STEM). The EPSRC award will be matched by contributions from elsewhere totalling £1,293,000. As part of the National Facility, SuperSTEM3 will support many users from the UK and elsewhere and have a high utilisation factor.
The National Facility is run by a consortium of five Universities (Leeds, Oxford, Manchester, Glasgow and Liverpool) and is led by Prof Rik Brydson of Leeds. It is based around the SuperSTEM facility at STFC Daresbury Laboratories (www.superstem.org) but also provides access to complementary advanced instrumentation at Consortium University sites and Partner sites (currently Cambridge, Sheffield, Warwick and York). The last EPSRC review panel (2005) rated the SuperSTEM facility 'internationally outstanding'. Highlights of research impact since this review include:
- a total of 104 journal publications with users (9 Nature group/PRL)
- 32 invited talks and 23 conference contributions since 2007
- the first demonstration of atomically resolved EELS mapping
- a significant contribution to 2010 Nobel prize winning work on graphene
The National Facility was awarded £4.5M by EPSRC in the recent round of tenders for mid-range user facilities. The requirements of the tender for this facility were determined by a Statement of Need from the user community and a subsequent Town Meeting. The combination of equipment at SuperSTEM and the Consortium/Partner Universities is able to meet many, but not all, of the tender requirements. The cap £4.5M on the tender budget combined with the requirements on staffing levels meant that the capital budget was insufficient to purchase SuperSTEM3. As a fall-back position, £1,103,000 of the budget was allocated to upgrading SuperSTEM2, the more modern of the current SuperSTEM instruments. As detailed below, this is far from a satisfactory option.
The new instrument, SuperSTEM3, will be housed in a new purpose-built "pod" at the SuperSTEM Lab. and will ensure the National Facility, its users and hence the UK remains at the forefront of aberration corrected STEM research and development. The combined monochromator/Cc corrector in a fully integrated state-of-the-art instrument will open up new areas for study. It will allow the full benefits of improved spatial resolution for STEM imaging and atomic resolution spectroscopy down to the low accelerating voltages necessary to study many nanomaterials. The improved energy resolution for electron spectrometry will open up new areas of study including the potential for vibrational spectroscopy.
The National Facility is run by a consortium of five Universities (Leeds, Oxford, Manchester, Glasgow and Liverpool) and is led by Prof Rik Brydson of Leeds. It is based around the SuperSTEM facility at STFC Daresbury Laboratories (www.superstem.org) but also provides access to complementary advanced instrumentation at Consortium University sites and Partner sites (currently Cambridge, Sheffield, Warwick and York). The last EPSRC review panel (2005) rated the SuperSTEM facility 'internationally outstanding'. Highlights of research impact since this review include:
- a total of 104 journal publications with users (9 Nature group/PRL)
- 32 invited talks and 23 conference contributions since 2007
- the first demonstration of atomically resolved EELS mapping
- a significant contribution to 2010 Nobel prize winning work on graphene
The National Facility was awarded £4.5M by EPSRC in the recent round of tenders for mid-range user facilities. The requirements of the tender for this facility were determined by a Statement of Need from the user community and a subsequent Town Meeting. The combination of equipment at SuperSTEM and the Consortium/Partner Universities is able to meet many, but not all, of the tender requirements. The cap £4.5M on the tender budget combined with the requirements on staffing levels meant that the capital budget was insufficient to purchase SuperSTEM3. As a fall-back position, £1,103,000 of the budget was allocated to upgrading SuperSTEM2, the more modern of the current SuperSTEM instruments. As detailed below, this is far from a satisfactory option.
The new instrument, SuperSTEM3, will be housed in a new purpose-built "pod" at the SuperSTEM Lab. and will ensure the National Facility, its users and hence the UK remains at the forefront of aberration corrected STEM research and development. The combined monochromator/Cc corrector in a fully integrated state-of-the-art instrument will open up new areas for study. It will allow the full benefits of improved spatial resolution for STEM imaging and atomic resolution spectroscopy down to the low accelerating voltages necessary to study many nanomaterials. The improved energy resolution for electron spectrometry will open up new areas of study including the potential for vibrational spectroscopy.
Planned Impact
Associating the requested capital equipment with a newly formed, mid-range National Facility which has a strong and successful established base in terms of staff, experience and existing instrumentation is an ideal way to ensure a productive Pathway to Impact. Much of the detailed information required to evidence optimum use of the equipment has already been agreed with EPSRC as part of the Tender Process for the National Facility for Aberration Corrected STEM. Below we summarise the key points.
Specifically:
(a) Outreach to new users is detailed in Schedule 11 associated with Main Agreement.
This has involved creation of a dedicated National Facility website (http://www.superstem.com/) containing Facility information including Access Procedures, a Calendar, a Status and Announcement Page with detailed information about the EPSRC National Facility for AC-STEM operational status, a User Forum, Training Material including access to video lectures as recorded at the biennial, residential SuperSTEM summer school, an interactive instrument manual produced in collaboration with users and external links to further sources of information.
The EPSRC National Facility for AC-STEM staff will carry on its engagement in Electron Microscopy Schools and Workshops aimed at promoting and training the next generation of STEM Users. In addition there is set of presentations scheduled for departmental seminars at University institutions, at UK and international conferences, at workshops and specialised events. Staff scientists and Consortium members will continue to publish (in collaboration with users) regularly in a wide variety of high impact factor journals promoting the advanced capabilities of the instrumentation and the staff at the National Facility.
(b) Issues surrounding user support for data analysis are detailed in Schedules 1 and 9 associated with Main Agreement.
Unless otherwise pre-agreed with the User, the Daresbury SuperSTEM facility shall be responsible for the analysis of data sets from the samples supplied to the EPSRC National Facility for AC-STEM in order to meet the agreed User requirements. Should the User wish to utilise alternative data analysis resources, the Daresbury SuperSTEM facility shall be expected to provide the collected data in a format suitable for that analysis. Furthermore it is the aim, wherever possible to train users in data interpretation and analysis. Training and support facilities at the EPSRC National Facility for AC-STEM are always available to visiting experimenters. In addition to formally structured events, such as the biennial SuperSTEM School, more specialised courses, tailored to users' specific interests will be scheduled according to user demand.
(c) Suggested KPIs for usage and management which will allow monitoring of the success of the equipment usage. These have already been agreed with EPSRC as part of the tender process for the National Facility and are detailed in Schedule 2 associated with Main Agreement. The KPIs are collected monthly, reviewed at the regular Consortium Management meetings at Daresbury and reported at 3 monthly intervals to the Steering Committee and EPSRC. Briefly the KPIs involve:
-Number of Researchers that have been in contact and have used the National Facility;
-Facility Uptime;
-Number of Complaints;
-Numbers of Publications and Presentations;
-Number of samples investigated at Main Facility, Consortium Laboratories and Partner Laboratories.
The Steering Committee meets every six months to review and advise on Facility performance and equipment usage. The committee comprises:
Mark Rainforth - Sheffield; Steve Donnelly - Huddersfield; Paul Brown - Nottingham; Jeremy Skepper - Cambridge; David Cherns - Bristol; Dogan Ozkaya - Johnson Matthey; Mike Walls - CNRS Orsay Paris; Rafal Dunin-Borkowski - Ernst Ruska Centre, Julich; Dave McComb - Ohio State and Natalie James - EPSRC plus The Consortium Chair, Scientific Champion and Research Director
Specifically:
(a) Outreach to new users is detailed in Schedule 11 associated with Main Agreement.
This has involved creation of a dedicated National Facility website (http://www.superstem.com/) containing Facility information including Access Procedures, a Calendar, a Status and Announcement Page with detailed information about the EPSRC National Facility for AC-STEM operational status, a User Forum, Training Material including access to video lectures as recorded at the biennial, residential SuperSTEM summer school, an interactive instrument manual produced in collaboration with users and external links to further sources of information.
The EPSRC National Facility for AC-STEM staff will carry on its engagement in Electron Microscopy Schools and Workshops aimed at promoting and training the next generation of STEM Users. In addition there is set of presentations scheduled for departmental seminars at University institutions, at UK and international conferences, at workshops and specialised events. Staff scientists and Consortium members will continue to publish (in collaboration with users) regularly in a wide variety of high impact factor journals promoting the advanced capabilities of the instrumentation and the staff at the National Facility.
(b) Issues surrounding user support for data analysis are detailed in Schedules 1 and 9 associated with Main Agreement.
Unless otherwise pre-agreed with the User, the Daresbury SuperSTEM facility shall be responsible for the analysis of data sets from the samples supplied to the EPSRC National Facility for AC-STEM in order to meet the agreed User requirements. Should the User wish to utilise alternative data analysis resources, the Daresbury SuperSTEM facility shall be expected to provide the collected data in a format suitable for that analysis. Furthermore it is the aim, wherever possible to train users in data interpretation and analysis. Training and support facilities at the EPSRC National Facility for AC-STEM are always available to visiting experimenters. In addition to formally structured events, such as the biennial SuperSTEM School, more specialised courses, tailored to users' specific interests will be scheduled according to user demand.
(c) Suggested KPIs for usage and management which will allow monitoring of the success of the equipment usage. These have already been agreed with EPSRC as part of the tender process for the National Facility and are detailed in Schedule 2 associated with Main Agreement. The KPIs are collected monthly, reviewed at the regular Consortium Management meetings at Daresbury and reported at 3 monthly intervals to the Steering Committee and EPSRC. Briefly the KPIs involve:
-Number of Researchers that have been in contact and have used the National Facility;
-Facility Uptime;
-Number of Complaints;
-Numbers of Publications and Presentations;
-Number of samples investigated at Main Facility, Consortium Laboratories and Partner Laboratories.
The Steering Committee meets every six months to review and advise on Facility performance and equipment usage. The committee comprises:
Mark Rainforth - Sheffield; Steve Donnelly - Huddersfield; Paul Brown - Nottingham; Jeremy Skepper - Cambridge; David Cherns - Bristol; Dogan Ozkaya - Johnson Matthey; Mike Walls - CNRS Orsay Paris; Rafal Dunin-Borkowski - Ernst Ruska Centre, Julich; Dave McComb - Ohio State and Natalie James - EPSRC plus The Consortium Chair, Scientific Champion and Research Director
Organisations
- University of Leeds (Lead Research Organisation, Project Partner)
- FEI Company (Collaboration)
- LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (Collaboration)
- Quorum Review- Independent Review Board (Collaboration)
- SuperSTEM (Project Partner)
- University of Manchester (Project Partner)
- University of Liverpool (Project Partner)
- University of Glasgow (Project Partner)
- Nion (United States) (Project Partner)
- University of Oxford (Project Partner)
Publications
Abouhakim H
(2020)
Mechanically Induced Amorphization of Diaqua-bis(Omeprazolate)-Magnesium Dihydrate
in Crystal Growth & Design
Abouhakim H
(2020)
The crystal structure, morphology and mechanical properties of diaquabis(omeprazolate)magnesium dihydrate.
in Acta crystallographica Section B, Structural science, crystal engineering and materials
Abouhakim H
(2022)
Comminution and amorphisation of Diaqua-bis(Omeprazolate)-Magnesium Dihydrate: An analysis of the energies involved
in Powder Technology
Akhtar M
(2016)
Phase controlled synthesis of copper sulfide nanoparticles by colloidal and non-colloidal methods
in Materials Chemistry and Physics
Al Ma'Mari F
(2017)
Emergent magnetism at transition-metal-nanocarbon interfaces.
in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Al-Murish M
(2023)
Engineering of Solar Energy Harvesting Tb 3+ -Ion-Doped CdS Quantum Dot Glasses for Photodissociation of Hydrogen Sulfide
in ACS Applied Energy Materials
Aufderhorst-Roberts A
(2018)
Nanoscale mechanics of microgel particles.
in Nanoscale
Austin D
(2022)
Role of sodium hexametaphosphate in ultra-fine grinding of alumina-doped titanium dioxide
in Powder Technology
Austin D
(2021)
Evolving surface properties of stirred wet milled aluminum-doped titanium dioxide: A discretely heterogeneous system
in Powder Technology
| Description | 3D LS Spectrometer Pro A 3D-photon correlation spectroscopy facility has been established in Leeds. This light scattering technique is used for the study of a wide range of soft matter systems where turbidity and thus multiple scattering of photons is a problem. This experimental technique makes it possible to perform full angular dependent light scattering investigations even in highly turbid media. The technique is being used on concentrated microgel suspension to study their structure and dynamics as well as in polymer gels, biological aggregating systems and a wide range of concentrated colloidal or polymeric systems both of fundamental and applied and/or industrial importance. SQUID-VSM Magnetometer A new superconducting quantum interference device - vibrating sample magnetometer (SQUID-VSM) was installed in Leeds in May 2013. It has the added capabilities of AC susceptibility and high temperature (1.8 - 1000 K) measurements in fields of up to 7 T. |
| Exploitation Route | 3D LS Spectrometer Pro - we are actively interacting with the equipment manufacturer LS-instruments to further SQUID-VSM Magnetometer To push the limits of magnetometry both in resolution and in added functionalities, such as added electrical signals or high temperatures. |
| Sectors | Chemicals Electronics Energy Environment Healthcare Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology |
| Description | 3D LS Spectrometer Pro A 3D-photon correlation spectroscopy facility has been established in Leeds. This includes a 3D-light scattering spectrometer with laser modulation option and a sample goniometer with a high temperature sample chamber. It also includes a second sample goniometer for rotation of samples that facilitates proper measurements on out-of-equilibrium samples. The set-up is equipped for full polarisation analysis and pseudo-cross correlation. The range of projects that are utilising the 3D-photon correlation spectroscopy equipment provide impact for materials understanding and design with a particular focus on turbid materials, out-of-equilibrium materials, and for research and development on complex formulations and biological materials. SQUID-VSM Magnetometer Since its installation, in addition to users from the University of Leeds, the SVSM has been used by groups in the universities of Durham, Heriot-Watt, Hull, Sheffield and Zaragoza (Spain). We have also added magneto-electric capabilities, performing the first measurements of electric control in multiferroics using this instrument. The instrument has not been down a single day since its installation. The liquid helium cryogenic plant at the school of Physics refills the liquid nitrogen and helium reservoirs roughly every week, and it is currently being used at full capacity. (March 2023) The suite of instruments will be moved into a state-of-the-art facility with full environmental control in the Bragg Centre for Materials Research in 2023 and will provide a centralised Faculty facility for Materials Characterisation |
| Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Education,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology,Other |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal |
| Description | Course material for light scattering teaching |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Development of teaching for light scattering, particularly on the 3D-PCS equipment at the University of Leeds |
| Description | 3D Nanoscale chemical analysis: a FIBSEM-SIMS facility optimised for soft and composite materials |
| Amount | £1,726,123 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V028855/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2021 |
| End | 06/2025 |
| Description | Analytical electron and ion beam microscopy to enable precision engineering of complex chemical products for high value technology sectors |
| Amount | £1,500,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X040992/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2024 |
| End | 02/2028 |
| Description | Bridging the gap between cell and structural biology at the University of Leeds |
| Amount | £418,467 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 208395/Z/17/Z |
| Organisation | Wellcome Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2018 |
| End | 02/2023 |
| Description | CHEDDAR: Communications Hub For Empowering Distributed ClouD Computing Applications And Research |
| Amount | £2,028,049 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X040518/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2023 |
| End | 06/2026 |
| Description | Case award |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2015 |
| End | 05/2018 |
| Description | Cryogenic electron microscopy for native state analysis of nanoparticles in liquids |
| Amount | £196,879 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R043388/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2018 |
| End | 02/2021 |
| Description | Crystallisation in the Real World: Delivering Control through Theory and Experiment |
| Amount | £5,436,236 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R018820/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2018 |
| End | 02/2024 |
| Description | EPSRC 1st Grant |
| Amount | £100,410 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/J02113X/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2012 |
| End | 05/2014 |
| Description | EPSRC 1st Grant |
| Amount | £125,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/L022273/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2014 |
| End | 03/2016 |
| Description | EPSRC Grand Challenge |
| Amount | £4,200,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N010523/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2016 |
| End | 01/2021 |
| Description | EPSRC Impact accelerator |
| Amount | £25,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/K503836/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2015 |
| End | 07/2015 |
| Description | EPSRC Mid-range Facility Tender |
| Amount | £4,499,509 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | RE-10-0005-EPSRC-STEM |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2011 |
| End | 09/2016 |
| Description | EPSRC National Facility for Advanced Electron Microscopy |
| Amount | £7,200,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NS/A000057/1 |
| Organisation | EPSRC National Service for AC-STEM |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2017 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Enabling the use of pollinator-friendly biopesticides as an alternative to chemical pesticides |
| Amount | £24,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2018 |
| End | 04/2020 |
| Description | Engineering fellowship for growth |
| Amount | £1,030,863 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/M002462/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2014 |
| End | 08/2019 |
| Description | First grant |
| Amount | £99,320 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/L022273/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2014 |
| End | 03/2016 |
| Description | Hybrid pixel detector upgrade for electron energy loss spectrometer |
| Amount | £499,999 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V036432/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 04/2022 |
| Description | Industrial co-funding for a PhD student focusing on experimental studies of packing of microgels starting in April 2017 |
| Amount | £47,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Industry Partners |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 03/2017 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | Intensified by Design® for the intensification of processes involving solids handling (IbD) |
| Amount | € 8,484,489 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 680565 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Department | Horizon 2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 08/2015 |
| End | 08/2018 |
| Description | Materials for Demanding Environments |
| Amount | £139,200 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 67856-475270 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2016 |
| End | 04/2017 |
| Description | Multi-Disciplinary Pedestrian-in-the-Loop Simulator |
| Amount | £653,011 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R008833/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2017 |
| End | 04/2019 |
| Description | N8 AgriFood grant: "Co-polymer complexes of dsRNA as highly selective and environmentally friendly insecticides: application to the control of coleopteran pests of arable crops" |
| Amount | £11,689 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Higher Education Funding Council for England |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2019 |
| End | 01/2020 |
| Description | National Centre for Infrastructure Materials (Leeds) |
| Amount | £100,000,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/P017169/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2017 |
| End | 04/2020 |
| Description | National Facility for Innovative Robotic Systems |
| Amount | £2,600,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2013 |
| End | 12/2015 |
| Description | ProPAT |
| Amount | € 5,484,160 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 637232 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Department | Horizon 2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 01/2015 |
| End | 12/2018 |
| Description | Supolen ITN (EU) - Supramolecular assembly of polymeric structures; a novel route to enhance soft materials properties |
| Amount | £340,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 607937 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 09/2013 |
| End | 10/2017 |
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| Amount | £201,946 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R02863X/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2018 |
| End | 11/2021 |
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| Amount | £6,500,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/M012522/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2016 |
| End | 03/2017 |
| Description | Versus Arthritis Proof of Concept Grant 22031 |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 22031 |
| Organisation | Versus Arthritis |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 10/2020 |
| Title | Fundamental studies of gasification of hydrothermal carbonised biomass |
| Description | Netzch system Simultaneous Thermal Analyser, STA449F3 with dual furnaces (water vapour, high temperature SiC) |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The instrument was used to support an investigation of the influence of biomass pretreatment on gasification behaviour. The experiments performed including testing of the steam generator to simulate gasification behaviour of biocoal produced by hydrothermal carbonisation at different temperatures and steam flows. Experiments were able to establish influence of steam on biomass decomposition and allowed suitable conditions to be developed. |
| Title | Kinetic mechanism studies |
| Description | PTR-TOF-MS system (Kore Technology) |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The equipment is utilised by four PhD students (two are CDT). This instrument has enabled sampling in a range of environments to low concentrations for (1) Flash photolysis for the products of reactions of potential biofuels (ethers and alcohols), (2) Nitrogen chemistry (oxidations of amides and amines, relevant for low grade biomass (e.g. chipboard). The equipment provides us with a much better way of identifying and quantifying stable products from reactions and has given new mechanistic insight as a result. Material using this apparatus has been presented this year at the International Conference on Chemical Kinetics (Chicago, May 2017). (3) The apparatus continues to facilitate work being undertaken on butanol oxidation and combustion mechanisms -to monitor butanol concentrations in laser flash photolysis experiments and looking at the fragmentation patterns prior to incorporation onto the HIRAC (Highly Instrumented Reactor for Atmospheric Chemistry) chamber, to study the atmospheric oxidation products of both biofuels and biofuel exhausts. (4) The analyser is also being used for dimethylether (DME) combustion mechanisms by using the mass spectrometer to look for the intermediates in DME combustion. |
| Title | Low nitrogen analyser technique to determine the fuel-nitrogen split between volatile matter and char for high heating rate pyrolysis (under development) |
| Description | Multi EA5000 Low nitrogen Analyser |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This analyser is being used for the research on NOx from biomass since it enables measurement of extremely low N in biomass and derived products fuels (to 100ppm). This analyser is widely used by CDT and non-CDT students on team projects and PhD studies (e.g. this instrument facilitated the research carried out by Dooley, Benjamin (2017) Combustion characteristics of coal, biomass and their chars in air and oxy-fuel environments. Integrated PhD and Master thesis, University of Leeds). Furthermore, the development of a novel analytical technique to determine the fuel-nitrogen split between the volatile matter and char for high heating rate pyrolysis conditions is also being explored. It has been used to obtain nitrogen data for investigations on single particle combustion on biomass and coal for the EPSRC Flexible Conventional Power Consortium (Patrick Mason (PDRA) in collaboration with Juan Riaza (PDRA) at Edinburgh University). |
| Title | Multicomponent gas analyser for monitoring emissions from domestic biomass use |
| Description | GASMET FTIR multi component analyser (Quantitech) |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | We have built an instrumental lab facilities for biomass stoves, which is one of the best in the country. This instrument is part of this set up. Currently being used for two PhD studies: (1) to examine the toxicity of emissions from cook stoves and (2) to determine the effect on emissions of pre-treated biomass fuels grown on contaminated land. The gas analyser was used by another PhD student to complete his studies on emissions from domestic biomass: E.J.S.M. (2017) Emissions from Residential Solid Fuel Combustion and Implications for Air Quality and Climate Change. Integrated PhD and Master thesis, University of Leeds. |
| Title | Optoelectronic Magnetometry |
| Description | New methods to perform high sensitivity magnetic characterisation with electrical and/or optical irradiation. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | When fully developed, this technique can be used to characterise a very broad range of multi-functional materials, such as multiferroics, spin-crossover molecules, perovskites and many others. There is a recent publication arising from this methodology in Advanced Functional Materials (L. Henrichs et al. In press). |
| Title | Thermal imaging camera for general use in Engineering Research |
| Description | FLIR sc600 Thermal imaging camera available for use by all researchers in Faculty of Engineering Enables infra-red thermal imaging/measurement of surface temperatures in a wide variety of experimental work |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The instrument has been used expensively by various groups in the Faculty of Engineering including: Experiment: measuring surface temperature of pure water droplets as well as aqueous polymer solutions during evaporation - Wael Ebrahim (University of Leeds Chemical & Process Engineering) 2017-18 Experiment: measuring surface temperature of cooling channels for thermofluids in microfluidic devices - Mark Levenstein (University of Leeds Mechanical Engineering) 2017-18 Experiment: measurement of the surface temperatures from heat generated during grinding - Matthew Marshall (University of Leeds Mechanical Engineering) 2017-18 Experiment: measurement of temperatures of stoves surfaces and combusting solid fuels in biomass stove testing: Andrew Price-Alison (University of Leeds Chemical & Process Engineering) 2016-19 Experiment: measurement of surface temperatures of chars in single particle biomass combustion: Patrick Mason (University of Leeds Chemical & Process Engineering) Juan Riaza (University of Edinburgh) 2016 Experiment: Rapid Mapping of Protein Interactions Using Tag-Transfer Photocrosslinkers : Mark Levenstein (University of Leeds Mechanical Engineering in collaboration with School of Molecular and Cellular Biology) 2017-18. Publication: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/anie.201809149 |
| Title | Thermal imaging of biomass combustion |
| Description | FLIR Thermal imaging camera, with high T option (300-2000 °C) |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The camera is currently used for the PhD studies of three Bioenergy CDT students (1) to examine ignition risk of biomass dusts on heated surfaces; for studies on the performance of (2) heating stoves and (3) cook stoves. It was also used by Patrick Mason and Juan Riaza (at Edinburgh University) for the EPSRC Future Conventional Power Consortium, for temperature measurements of single particles of biomass and coal during combustion. The camera is widely used to facilitate the research in different areas: Temperature measurement of cooling channels on an electronic device, Temperature measurement of water droplets; and for studies on building energy efficiency in UK primary schools. |
| Title | Characterization of Sodium Carboxymethyl Cellulose (Na CMC) Aqueous Solutions to Support Complex Product Formulation - a Rheology and Light Scattering Study - dataset |
| Description | Experimental data shown in the figures included in the article and the supporting information published under the same name as the data set. The research article is published in ACS Applied Polymer Materials journal. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | Dataset for 'Characterisation of locust bean gum with asymmetric flow field-flow fractionation (AF4) and light scattering' |
| Description | This dataset contains experimental data obtained primarily from AF4-MALS measurements on locust bean gum solutions, with some associated SLS and DLS data. A full description of the data, methods, and interpretation may be found in the related publication. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This publication has generated a significant amount of interest |
| URL | https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/1167/ |
| Title | Dataset for 'The structure and dynamics of locust bean gum in aqueous solution' |
| Description | This dataset contains experimental data from aqueous solutions of locust bean gum, probing the structure and dynamics of these solutions. A full description of the data, methods, and interpretation may be found in the related publication. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/1068/ |
| Title | Hydrodynamic mixing tunes the stiffness of proteoglycan-mimicking physical hydrogels |
| Description | Supplementary data associated with research paper: Hydrodynamic mixing tunes the stiffness of proteoglycan-mimicking physical hydrogels. Dataset comprised of rheological data for peptide: glycosaminoglycan (GAG) hydrogels; FT-IR data for peptide: GAG hydrogels dimensional analysis data for peptide: GAG hydrogels. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Dataset has enabled reuse of material for further research and training. |
| URL | https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/880/ |
| Description | Engineering - Inst. Psychological Sciences Link |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have developed and strengthened links with researchers in the Institute of Psychological Sciences. We have brought expertise in engineering science to help investigate and understand human motor control and learning. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our research partners have extensive knowledge in human motor control and learning, and their application to rehabilitation and childhood development. We have combined this knowledge with our own to further understand the area and develop new tools for measurement and intervention. |
| Impact | http://www.leeds.ac.uk/paclab/about.html |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Engineering - Surgery Collaboration |
| Organisation | Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We have brought engineering science to help understand challenges faced in modern surgery and develop new technological solutions to them. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our clinical collaborators have provided advice on key challenges in surgery, surgical science, clinical requirements and methods for device evaluation. |
| Impact | This collaboration has resulted in the development of a number of funding applications and publications (planned, pending and published) It is a multidisciplinary collaboration and has led to joint supervision of PhD students and on-going work to build collaborative networks. |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | FEI Titan |
| Organisation | FEI company |
| Department | FEI United Kingdom |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Electron Microscopy of Organic Crystals for Pharmaceutical applications - investigation of methodologies for high resolution imaging and analysis |
| Collaborator Contribution | Application of techniques developed for FEI to the study of Pharmaceutical materials |
| Impact | Various conference papers and talks so far. Also has involved PhD studentships and consultancy work with AstraZeneca and Haldor Topsoe, Denmark |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Quorum Cryo-liftout |
| Organisation | Quorum Review- Independent Review Board |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration with company Quorum on in-situ liftout of frozen TEM samples |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration with company Quorum on in-situ liftout of frozen TEM samples |
| Impact | none so far |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Title | 3D-photon correlation spectrometer |
| Description | A 3D-Photon correlation spectrometer has been installed in the School of Physics & Astronomy in Leeds. This equipment is unique in that it makes it possible to perform both static and dynamic light scattering on materials that range from optically transparent to opaque. Thus, both the arrangements and the movements of material building blocks such as colloidal particles, emulsion drops and protein or polymer chains can be studied in detail using scattering even if the dispersions are turbid. |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2013 |
| Impact | This technology has and is strongly benefitting the work both on finished grants and on several studentships connected to grants as outlined in the documentation. Moreover, it is strongly benefitting collaborations within the UK and abroad. |
| Description | A poster presented at the 16th Food Colloids Conference in Wageningen, April 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A poster was presented 10-13 April, 2016 at the 16th Food Colloids Conference in Wageningen in the Netherlands. The title of the poster is: Solvence Effects on Biopolymer Interactions. Work including light scattering investigations performed on the 3D-PCS will be presented and compared with the results from other techniques as performed in Leeds. This is the work of the PhD-student A. Gulotta together with his supervisors E. Beuling, J. Mattsson and B. Murray at physics and food science at Leeds and industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | A presentation at the Annual European Rheology Conference (in cyberspace): "Computer simulations of packed soft colloids with thermal motion", 15 April, 2021, Presenter Daniel Read; authors: Tom Ridley, Daniel Read, Oliver Harlen, Johan Mattsson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation at the Annual European Rheology Conference (in cyberspace). Conference presentation: "Computer Simulations of packed soft colloids with thermal motion". Presenter: Daniel Read. Authors: Tom Ridley, Daniel Read, Oliver Harlen, Johan Mattsson |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | A presentation: "Structure and dynamics of aqueous locust bean gum solutions", EUSMI/SoftComp Annual Meeting, Adam O'Connell, 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation: "Structure and dynamics of aqueous locust bean gum solutions", EUSMI/SoftComp Annual Meeting, Adam O'Connell, 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | A presentation: "The application of microrheological techniques to the characterisation of polysaccharide solutions", Adam O'Connell, SOFI Showcase, 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation: "The application of microrheological techniques to the characterisation of polysaccharide solutions", Adam O'Connell, SOFI Showcase, 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | A talk presented at "The Physics of Soft and Biological Matter" conference in Cambridge, 6-8 April, 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk was given at the "Physics of Soft and Biological Matter" conference in Cambridge 6-8 April, 2016. This work is a collaboration between Anders Aufderhorst-Roberts, Simon Connell, Daniel Baker and Johan Mattsson focused on detailed studies of the mechanics of single microgel particles. The studied microgel particles were produced and originally studied within the EPSRC First Grant EP/J02113X/1 using scattering and AFM techniques, and the AFM studies were then taken further in terms of details and it is particularly this extended work that will be presented here. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Abstract for an oral presentation at the 7th International Colloids Conference, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain submitted |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Abstract for an oral presentation at the 7th International Colloids Conference, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain submitted. The title of the presentation is: "Solvence Effects on biopolymer interaction in pectin gels". The presentation will be given by PhD student Alessandro Gulotta. The work that will be presented is to a significant degree based on light scattering results from the 3D-PCS facility at Leeds. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Annual Royal Microscopical Society School in Elecron Microscopy - every Spring or Summer 2008 onwards |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Week long Training School for users of the technique |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021 |
| Description | Article in The Conversation: Low-carbon computing is needed to avoid a technological collapse |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article to disseminate the impacts that the internet and related technologies have in the environment and how current research contributes to minimise them -while continuing technological progress. Several comments and emails about this activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/low-carbon-computing-is-needed-to-avoid-a-technological-collapse-93381 |
| Description | BBC Radio 4 interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview on Nanogold on BBC Radio 4 Inside Science Broadcast 5 March at 16.30 GMT |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fw1n |
| Description | Be Curious Science Outreach event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Microscopy Talk, Activities and Display at Be Curious Festival at University of Leeds, Annual event every March |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018,2019,2020 |
| URL | http://www.leeds.ac.uk/info/4000/around_campus/460/be_curious_festival-about_leeds_and_yorkshire |
| Description | Be Curious Science Outreach event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Microscopy Demonstrations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news-university/news/article/5058/explore-learn-and-create-at-be-curious-202... |
| Description | Be Curious Scientific Outreach event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Microscopy Demonstrations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news-university/news/article/5287/inspire-create-and-explore-at-be-curious-2... |
| Description | Circular Materials for Sustainable Digital Futures Workshop | University of Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Henry Royce Institute at the University of Leeds, in collaboration with EPSRC held a one-day meeting on Thursday 4th May 2023 to bring together materials researchers who are working in, or passionate about, moving towards an environmentally sustainable digital future. This meeting aimed to engage researchers, RTOs, policy makers and those working in industry within the advanced materials community in an active discussion about a materials focus for a sustainable digital future. There were about 50 attendees at the meeting, with a diverse range of expertise and experience in materials research and innovation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Co-organisation of Royal Society Discussion Meeting, Dynamic in-situ microscopy relating structure and function |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Fast-track discussion meeting organised by Dame Pratibha Gai FREng FRS, Professor Edward Boyes, Professor Rik Brydson and Professor Richard Catlow FRS. October 21-22 2019 This meeting evidenced and advanced development in dynamic in-situ environmental electron, scanning probe, optical and fast time resolved microscopy and computer modelling studies of vital interest in the chemical, physical and life sciences, underpinning technologies of high commercial and societal value. It focused on the pivotal role of imaging and spectroscopy for dynamic processes across the sciences to access previously invisible aspects of real world processes. An accompanying journal issue for this meeting was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2019/10/in-situ-microscopy/ |
| Description | Conference presentation, talk: "Computer simulations of packed soft colloids", T. Ridley, D. Read, O. Harlen, J. Mattsson, British Society of Rheology midwinter meeting, 2018, Dec 18. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference presentation, talk: "Computer simulations of packed soft colloids", T. Ridley, D. Read, O. Harlen, J. Mattsson, British Society of Rheology midwinter meeting, 2018, Dec 18. Presentation by Tom Ridley. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Conference presentation: "Computer simulations of packed soft colloids", T. Ridley, D. Read, O. Harlen, J. Mattsson, Annual European Research Congress 2018, April 20, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference presentation, talk: "Computer simulations of packed soft colloids", T. Ridley, D. Read, O. Harlen, J. Mattsson, Annual European Research Congress 2018, April 20, The presentation was given by Tom Ridley. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Conference presentation; talk, "Structure-property relationships of sodium carboxymethyl cellulose (Na-CMC) characterised with rheology and light scattering", J. Behra, J. Mattsson, O.J. Cayre, T.N. Hunter, 9th Australian Colloid and Interface Symposium, Feb 5, 2019, presented by T. N. Hunter (Univ. Leeds) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference presentation; talk, "Structure-property relationships of sodium carboxymethyl cellulose (Na-CMC) characterised with rheology and light scattering", J. Behra, J. Mattsson, O.J. Cayre, T.N. Hunter, 9th Australian Colloid and Interface Symposium, Feb 5, 2019, presented by T. N. Hunter (Univ. Leeds) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Hosted laboratory visit for Leeds Biomedical Research Centre Patient Public Involvement group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Hosted a laboratory tour and series of talks from academic members of the Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering for members of the Leeds PPI group |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/cKfs50-NxJQ |
| Description | IEEE UFFC Society Distinguished Lecturer in Ferroelectrics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | My work and publications from recently funded EPSRC projects led to me being appointed as Distinguished Lecturer in Ferroelectrics for the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and frequency Control Society. This provided mw with a budget of $20,000 to undertake outreach lectures around the world during 2023. I completed 27 lectures in China, Japan, USA, Canada, UK, Finland, Germany, Croatia and Slovenia, mainly at university and industry locations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invitation to give a lecture: "The use of light scattering in food-related soft matter", Edible Soft Matter, Le Mans 17-19 April, 2019, presentation to be given by J. Mattsson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | J. Mattsson has been invited to provide a lecture on light scattering within a workshop dedicated to soft matter approaches within the foods application area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Launch Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The launch event was received very well. We had a number of tours of our facilities and some relevant robot system demonstrations We had a number of visitors from academia and industry and we have been approached by industries. These could lead to collaborative research with high impacts |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Lecturer at the international workshop on "Edible Soft Matter" in Le Mans, 17-19 April, 2019 (title: "The use of light scattering in food-related soft matter") |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lectures on light scattering technique and fundamentals for the study of food-related soft matter |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | March of the Robots |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | March of the Robots was a regional theme created by Playful Leeds, where the public were engaged to discover, make and think about robots and their impact. The EPSRC Robotics facility at Leeds University hosted tours of members of the public to see what was happening within the context of research. Too early to describe yet. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.marchoftherobots.com/ |
| Description | Oral Presentation: "The application of microrheological techniques to polysaccharide solutions", Food Physics 2022, IOP 31/1-2/2/2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Oral Presentation by Adam O'Connell, "The application of microrheological techniques to polysaccharide solutions", A. O'Connell, R. Armenta, A. Vaccaro, P. Schuetz, J. Mattsson, Food Physics 2022, IOP 31/1-2/2/2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Oral presentation accepted for the 17th Food Colloids Conference, University of Leeds, 8-11 April 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Oral presentation accepted with the title: "Investigation of Sodium Carboxymethyl Cellulose (Na CMC) behaviour in aqueous formulations with rheology and light scattering" at the 17th Food Colloids conference at the University of Leeds, 8-11 April, 2017. The presentation will be given by Juliette Behra, University of Leeds. The work includes a significant light scattering component, where data have been acquired using the 3D-PCS equipment at Leeds. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Oral presentation accepted for the Annual European Rheology Conference, April 17-20, Sorrento, Italy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Oral presentation with the title "Computer Simulations of Packed Soft Colloids" accepted for the Annual European Rheology Conference, April 17-20, Sorrento, Italy. The presentation will be given by Tom Ridley at the university of Leeds. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Oral presentation at the 17th food colloids conference (University of Leeds) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk accepted for presentation at the 17th food colloids conference at the University of Leeds 8-11 April, 2018. The presentation is titled:"Solvency Effects on Biopolymer Interactions in Pectin Gels" and will be presented by Alessandro Gulotta. The work includes a significant light scattering component, where data have been acquired using the 3D-PCS equipment at Leeds. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Podcast for "The Conversation": Anthill 23: Bursting the Bitcoin bubble . about Bitcoins, cryptocurrency and physics research contributions to novel technologies with wider reach. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Podcast to discuss cryptocurrencies, online banking and how new technologies impact our society. My contribution centred around information storage and research in magnetism applied to these technologies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/anthill-23-bursting-the-bitcoin-bubble-93337 |
| Description | Poster and short oral presentation: "The application of microrheological techniques to the characterisation of polysaccharide solutions", IOP Food Physics 2022, Adam O'Connell, Feb. 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster and short oral presentation: "The application of microrheological techniques to the characterisation of polysaccharide solutions", IOP Food Physics 2022, Adam O'Connell, Feb. 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Poster presentation at the "Colloidal, Macromolecular & biological gels: formulation, properties & applications" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation at the "Colloidal, Macromolecular & biological gels: formulation, properties & applications" with the title: "From dilute polyelectrolyte solutions to entangled polyelectrolyte networks: intriguing ageing phenomena in Sodium Carboxymethyl Cellulose (Na CMC) solutions" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Poster presentation at the British Society of Rheology Midwinter meeting. Reading, UK 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A poster presentation of the work on "Dynamics of packed soft colloids" by PhD student Tom Ridley at Leeds. The presented work is focused on developing new computer simulation techniques that can describe the packing of soft elastic colloids and can be used to better understand experimental data on soft colloids such as microgels. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Poster presentation at the McBain medal meeting, London, 12 Dec, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation with the title "Polyelectrolyte solutions: understanding sodium carboxymethyl cellulose chain behaviour in water with rheology and light scattering measurements" at the McBain medal meeting, London, 12 Dec 2017. Presented by Juliette Behra (University of Leeds). The work includes a significant light scattering component, where data have been acquired using the 3D-PCS equipment at Leeds. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Poster presentation at the UK Soft Matter Showcase, Durham 4 July, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation by Alessandro Gulotta (University of Leeds) of Ph.D. project 'Solvency Effects on Biopolymer Interactions in Pectin Gels'. His work includes a significant light scattering component, where data have been acquired using the 3D-PCS equipment at Leeds. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Poster presentation by Adam O'Connell: "Rheology and light scattering of locust beam gum solutions", International Soft Matter Conference, Edinburgh, 5 June, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation by Adam O'Connell: "Rheology and light scattering of locust beam gum solutions", International Soft Matter Conference, Edinburgh, 5 June, 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Poster presentation by Charlotte Pugsley: "Using RAFT polymerisation techniques to develop novel carriers for enhanced delivery of bioinsecticides", Inter-CDT conference (SOFI, CP3, Formulation Engineering and Additive Manufacturing), 16-17 Dec, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation by Charlotte Pugsley: "Using RAFT polymerisation techniques to develop novel carriers for enhanced delivery of bioinsecticides", Inter-CDT conference (SOFI, CP3, Formulation Engineering and Additive Manufacturing), 16-17 Dec, 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Poster presentation by Tom Ridley: "Computer simulations of packed soft colloids", Soft Matter and Functional Interfaces (SOFI) CDT Industrial Showcase, 27-28 June, 2019. Authors: Tom Ridley, Oliver Harlen, Daniel Read, Johan Mattsson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation by Tom Ridley: "Computer simulations of packed soft colloids", Soft Matter and Functional Interfaces (SOFI) CDT Industrial Showcase, 27-28 June, 2019. Authors: Tom Ridley, Oliver Harlen, Daniel Read, Johan Mattsson |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Poster presentation, "Influence of ultrasonication on Sodium-Carboxymethyl Cellulose (Na CMC) solution rheology, structure and dynamics", J. S. Behra, T. N. Hunter, O.J. Cayre, J. Mattsson, Bragg Centre Inaugural Day (Leeds), 15 Jan, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation, "Influence of ultrasonication on Sodium-Carboxymethyl Cellulose (Na CMC) solution rheology, structure and dynamics", J. S. Behra, T. N. Hunter, O.J. Cayre, J. Mattsson, Bragg Centre Inaugural Day (Leeds), 15 Jan, 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at Mondelez international in Bournville, Birmingham 24 Feb, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A poster presentation of PhD-work "Solvency Effects on Biopolymer Interactions" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation at the Delivery of Functionality in Complex Food Systems conference in Paris, 14-17 July 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of light scattering and rheology work on a polyelectrolyte system of both fundamental and industrial interest, particularly the food related industry. This was a poster presentation of the on-going work using the 3D-PCS in Leeds given by Juliette Behra and the work is based on her PhD-project, as led by T. Hunter, O. Cayre and J. Mattsson in physics and Engineering at Leeds. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Presentation at the UK Colloids conference in London 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A well attended conference presentation was given on work which was directly related to this grant The talk generated significant interest and further invitations to talk on the same topic were discussed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Presentation at the UK Colloids conference in Manchester, July 12, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Oral presentation by Alessandro Gulotta (University of Leeds) at the UK Colloids 2017 meeting in Manchester, July 12, 2017. The presentation/talk was titled 'Solvency Effects on Biopolymer Interactions in Pectin Gels'. The work includes a significant light scattering component, where data have been acquired using the 3D-PCS equipment at Leeds. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation at the UK Soft Matter Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A poster presentation of the PhD project work "Solvent Effects on biopolymer interactions", in which the use of the 3D photon correlation light scattering spectroscopy is a key element. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation at the workshop: Arrested Gels: Dynamics, Structure and Applications; workshop in Cambridge, 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation with the title:Formulating Complex Products Containing Sodium Carboxymethyl Cellulose (NaCMC) presented at the Arrested Gels: Dynamics, Structure and Applications workshop in Cambridge, 2015. The poster presentation showed on-going work on a both fundamentally and industrially important polyelectrolyte system as studied using rheology and light scattering in Leeds (3D-PCS). The work was presented by J. Behra who is a PhD-student with T. Hunter, O. Cayre and J. Mattsson in Engineering and Physics in Leeds. This work which is partly industrially funded originally came out of a collaboration between J. Mattsson and O. Cayre which started with the First Grant work EP/J02113x/1 on microgel systems, where the NaCMC polyelectrolyte system is an important industrially motivated system which often shows strongly similar behaviour to model systems such as pNIPAM-based microgels. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Presentation by Daniel Read: "Computer Simulations of Packed Soft Colloids*, APS March meeting 2019, Boston, USA. Authors: Tom Ridley, Daniel Read, Oliver Harlen, Johan Mattsson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Daniel Read: "Computer Simulations of Packed Soft Colloids*, APS March meeting 2019, Boston, USA. Authors: Tom Ridley, Daniel Read, Oliver Harlen, Johan Mattsson |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation by Olivier Cayre: "Delivery of dsRNA to target insects via diblock copolymer complexation", Okinawa 2019 International Colloids conference, Nov 4, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Olivier Cayre: "Delivery of dsRNA to target insects via diblock copolymer complexation", Okinawa 2019 International Colloids conference, Nov 4, 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation on scattering work at the 10th Annual European Rheology Conference, Nantes, France (April 2015) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference presentation with the title:Diffusing-wave spectroscopy in a standard dynamic light scattering setup. This work came out of a collaboration between researchers at TU Eindhoven and University of Leeds on light scattering in soft matter and is thus linked to the establishment of the 3D-PCS facility in Leeds. The work demonstrates how light scattering facilities can be used to study very highly turbid systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Presentation, talk: "Characterisation of dispersion interactions between aluminium-doped titania pigment particles and polyphosphate salt during milling", L. Elliott (University of Leeds), 9th Australian Colloid and Interface Symposium, 3 Feb, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation, talk: "Characterisation of dispersion interactions between aluminium-doped titania pigment particles and polyphosphate salt during milling", L. Elliott (University of Leeds), 9th Australian Colloid and Interface Symposium, 3 Feb, 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation, talk: "Solvency Effects on Biopolymer Interactions in Pectin Gels", presentation by Alessandro Gulotta, 4-5 July, 2018 SOFI CDT Showcase, Edinburgh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation, talk: "Solvency Effects on Biopolymer Interactions in Pectin Gels", presentation by Alessandro Gulotta, 4-5 July, 2018 SOFI CDT Showcase, Edinburgh |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation, talk: "Solvency Effects on Biopolymer Interactions in Pectin Gels", presentation by Alessandro Gulotta, Food Colloids, 8-11 April, 2018 (Leeds) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation, talk: "Solvency Effects on Biopolymer Interactions in Pectin Gels", presentation by Alessandro Gulotta, Food Colloids, 8-11 April, 2018 (Leeds) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation, talk: "The effect of ultrasonication on the rheology, structure and dynamics of Sodium Carboxymethyl cellulose (Na CMC) solutions", British Society of Rheology midwinter meeting, Edinburgh, Dec 17-18, 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation, talk: "The effect of ultrasonication on the rheology, structure and dynamics of Sodium Carboxymethyl cellulose (Na CMC) solutions", British Society of Rheology midwinter meeting, Edinburgh, Dec 17-18, 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation: "Enhancing stability and uptake of double-stranded RNA for use in pest control via complexation with well-defined diblock copolymers.", Okinawa Colloids 2019. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation: "Enhancing stability and uptake of double-stranded RNA for use in pest control via complexation with well-defined diblock copolymers.", Okinawa Colloids 2019, 3-8 Nov. 2019; presentation by Olivier Cayre. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation:"Using RAFT polymerisation techniques to develop novel carriers for the enhanced delivery of bioinsecticides"; UK Colloids 2020 Online Flash presentations; 21 July, 2020. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation:"Using RAFT polymerisation techniques to develop novel carriers for the enhanced delivery of bioinsecticides"; UK Colloids 2020 Online Flash presentations; 21 July, 2020; presented by Charlotte Pugsley. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Public Open Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Our open day event created interest in parents and young visitors. This has provided some opportunity for them to think about their future choices for engineering courses The interest was at a very high level. There were requests to run such events more frequently. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Public engagement research open day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Be Curious is an annual University of Leeds research open day, run during the annual Leeds Festival of Science public events programme. In 2018, students from the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Complex Particulate Products & Processes (CDT CP3) cohort 3 participated in this event. The students tied their activity to everyday products, this time with hands-on demonstrations of different types of emulsions and a game of 'match the SEM image' to the real-life product (including tea, washing powder and digestive biscuits). The students also set up a display for a virtual SEM, with a link from one of the partners in the CDT (FEI, now ThermoFisher) http://myscopeoutreach.org/virtualSEM_explore.html. At the 2018 event, there was a 'secret shopper' who visited all stands and reported back on their experience. For CP3, the feedback was 'Chemical Engineering - The couple of people at the stand were really engaging and had some really nice interactive activities.' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008,2018 |
| Description | Public engagement research open day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Be Curious is an annual University of Leeds research open day, run during the annual Leeds Festival of Science public events programme. Students from the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Complex Particulate Products & Processes (CDT CP3) have participated in two Be Curious days so far. In 2015, CP3's cohort 1 hosted a stand which attracted large crowds with 2 interactive displays: The first display used hydrophobic sand to demonstrate the engineering and science which can go into particulate engineering of water-proof products from mobile phone coatings and cases, through to fabrics and clothing. The second display looked at magnetic oils to show the diversity of engineering this tiny product is applied in from cars, to speaker systems, and the impact the innovation of this product has. Feedback from the event was very positive, with comments about the event being 'a fantastic showcase for all types of engineering' and 'a really good way for young people to get interested or reassure their interest in engineering'. In 2017, students from the CP3 CDT cohort 2 presented on 'From particle to product - chemical engineering in everyday life'. This time, the students tied their activity to the everyday products they investigated as part of their Reverse Engineering module completed in their first year, with hands-on demonstrations which were enjoyed and understood by both children and parents. The students also then had an opportunity to talk about their individual PhD projects. One visitor commented very positively on the poster display and was impressed with the way that different concepts were explained (she was currently tutoring someone through GCSE Chemistry and would have appreciated something in a similar format as a resource for this pupil). The organisers gave the following feedback; 'We had well over 1000 visitors on the day, and looking through the initial evaluation forms, they had a very positive experience. Talking to visitors on the day, they said the enthusiasm of the researchers on each stall was amazing.' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2017 |
| URL | http://www.leeds.ac.uk/becurious |
| Description | Royce Student Summit: Electronic and Photonic Materials | Bragg Centre, University of Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Royce Student Summits present the opportunity for the UK Materials PhD and EngD community to come together to share ideas, network and learn more about transitioning from doctoral study to the next steps on the career ladder |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Royce Training: Thin Film Deposition | University of Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This course will introduce thin-film deposition and analytical techniques for characterising thin films. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Scientific Organisation of Microscience Microscience Microscopy Congresses MMC2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attendance and presentation at conferences |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013,2015,2017,2019,2021 |
| URL | https://www.mmc-series.org.uk/ |
| Description | Seminar at ESPCI (Paris): "Computer simulations of packed soft colloids as deformable viscoelastic objects", T. Ridley, D. Read, O. Harlen, J. Mattsson, 15 March, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar at ESPCI (Paris): "Computer simulations of packed soft colloids as deformable viscoelastic objects", T. Ridley, D. Read, O. Harlen, J. Mattsson, 15 March, 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Seminar: "Structure, dynamics and rheology of polyelectrolyte solutions and molecular glass-formers", ISIS deuteration for neutron science meeting, Steventon, 16-17 May, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar presented by Johan Mattsson: "Structure, dynamics and rheology of polyelectrolyte solutions and molecular glass-formers", ISIS deuteration for neutron science meeting, Steventon, 16-17 May, 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Talk at Pint of Science - Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Gave a presentation to a general audience about magnetic materials and how our research may be used to reduce some environmental impacts of technological progress - such as mining of rare earths and power consumption. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://pintofscience.co.uk/ |
| Description | Talk at the "Colloidal, macromolecular & biological gels: formulation, properties & applications", Hernstein, Austria. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk was given with the title: "From dilute polyelectrolyte solutions to entangled polyelectrolyte networks: a study of sodium carboxymethyl cellulose in water by light scattering and rheology". It was presented by Juliette Behra (Leeds). The light scattering work was performed at the 3D-PCS light scattering facility at Leeds. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Talk at the American Physical Society March Meeting 5 March 2019: "Computer simulations of packed soft colloids", T. Ridley, D. Read, O. Harlen, J. Mattsson. Presentation by D. Read. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk at the American Physical Society March Meeting 5 March 2019: "Computer simulations of packed soft colloids", T. Ridley, D. Read, O. Harlen, J. Mattsson. Presentation by D. Read. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Talk at the British Society of Rheology Midwinter meeting 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An oral presentation given by PhD student Juliette Behra with the title:"From dilute to concentrated polyelectrolyte solutions: understanding sodium carboxymethyl cellulose chain dynamics in water with rheology and light scattering measurements". The light scattering work has been performed using the 3D-PCS facility at Leeds. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | The Bragg Exchange | Esther Simon Building, University of Leeds 23-24 January 24 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The Bragg Exchange 2024 offers a platform for all to learn, connect, and contribute to the future of materials science here at the University of Leeds. Students, academics, researchers - all are welcome to register and get involved! For the first time ever, the Bragg Exchange is now taking place over two exciting days! With presentations and poster sessions covering the breadth of the Bragg Centre's materials science research themes, this year's Bragg Exchange is not to be missed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/bragg-exchange-2024/ |
| Description | Workshop in Modern Light Scattering Technologies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | workshop facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A workshop in modern light scattering technologies was jointly organised between the Soft Matter Physics Group and LS-instruments and was held in Leeds 12-14 June, 2013. The workshop offered a combination of lectures and laboratory experience on light scattering equipment including the 3D-photon correlation spectroscopy kit set-up in the School of Physics & Astronomy in Leeds based on EPSRC funding. The workshop was very well received and researchers have expressed strong interest in the organisation of another similar event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | poster presented by Adam O'Connell: "Rheology and light scattering of locust beam gum solutions", SOFI Soft Matter Showcase, Leeds, 28 June, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | poster presented by Adam O'Connell: "Rheology and light scattering of locust beam gum solutions", SOFI Soft Matter Showcase, Leeds, 28 June, 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |