Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Ian Sinclair

Professor of Engineering Materials
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Other researchers

Professor Simon Coles

Professor of Structural Chemistry

Research interests

  • The work we do is highly collaborative and multidisciplinary and can broadly be split into three overlapping themes:
  • 1) National Crystallography Service (NCS, www.ncs.ac.uk) & Physical Sciences Data-science Service (PSDS, www.psds.ac.uk) These national centres provide centralised facilities for UK researchers at a level that is beyond that achievable in any single institution. The NCS provides data collection and crystal structure analysis for the UK chemistry community. It also performs projects based on more advanced techniques, involving a dedicated team of experts employing cutting edge techniques and the use of very high-powered laboratory diffractometers or the UK synchrotron, Diamond. The PSDS provides national-level access to databases and is building infrastructure on top of these to drive and support data-driven approaches to scientific discovery.
  • 2) Structural Chemistry We have an interest in determining the mechanisms of solid-state reactions and transformations and use a variety of diffraction and physical characterisation methods for this. Other work focuses on discovering and investigating structure-property relationships, the determination of charge densities and their properties and 'value-added' quantum mechanical calculations to compute properties from crystal structures. We also collaborate with other disciplines in a number of areas such as macromolecular crystallography (Biology), crystal growth (biology) and CT imaging (Engineering).
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Professor Mark Spearing

Vice-President (Research & Enterprise)
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Emeritus Professor Chris Clayton

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Professor Jeremy Frey

Professor of Physical Chemistry
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Emeritus Professor Mark Nixon

Research interests

  • My research interests are in image processing and computer vision.
  • I have helped to develop new techniques for static and moving shape extraction (both parametric and non-parametric) which have found application in automatic face and automatic gait recognition and in medical image analysis.
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Damage accumulation in a carbon/epoxy composite: comparison between a multiscale model and computed tomography experimental results
A.E. Scott, I. Sinclair, S.M. Spearing, A. Thionnet & A. Bunsell, 2012, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 43(9), 1514-1522
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2012.03.011
Type: article
Multi-scale 3D imaging of carbon fibre laminate impact and compression after impact damage using computed tomography and laminography
D.J. Bull, L. Helfen, I. Sinclair & S.M. Spearing, 2012
Type: conference
A drowned Mesozoic bird breeding colony from the Late Cretaceous of Transylvania
2012, Naturwissenschaften, 99(6), 435-442
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-012-0917-1
Type: article
Supercritical CO2 fluid-foaming of polymers to increase porosity: a method to improve the mechanical and biocompatibility characteristics for use as a potential alternative to allografts in impaction bone grafting?
Edward Tayton, M. Purcell, A. Aarvold, J. O. Smith, S. Kalra, A. Briscoe, K. Shakesheff, S. M. Howdle, D. G. Dunlop & R.O. C. Oreffo, 2012, Acta Biomaterialia, 8(5), 1918-1927
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2012.01.024
Type: article
Three-dimensional characterisation and modelling of small fatigue corner cracks in high strength Al-alloys
Henry Proudhon, A. Moffat, Ian Sinclair & Jean-Yves Buffiere, 2012, Comptes Rendus Physique, 13(3), 316-327
DOI: 10.1016/j.crhy.2011.12.005
Type: article