southampton

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

Synchrotron and neutron laminography for three-dimensional imaging of devices and flat material specimens

Lukas Helfen, Thilo F. Morgeneyer, Feng Xu, Mark N. Mavrogordato, Ian Sinclair, Burkhard Schillinger & Tilo Baumbach, 2012, International Journal of Materials Research, 2012(2), 170-173

DOI: 10.3139/146.012021

Type: article

3D damage characterisation and the role of voids in the fatigue of wind turbine blade materials

J. Lambert, A.R. Chambers, I. Sinclair & S.M. Spearing, 2012, Composites Science and Technology, 72(2), 337-343

DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2011.11.023

Type: article

From natural lotus leaf to highly hard-flexible diamond-like carbon surface with superhydrophobic and good tribological performance

Ying Wang, Liping Wang, Shuncai C. Wang, Robert J.K. Wood & Qunji Xue, 2012, Surface and Coatings Technology, 206(2258), 2258-2264

DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2011.10.001

Type: article

Evidence for the Preservation of Technogenic Tritiated Organic Compounds in an Estuarine Sedimentary Environment

Ian W. Croudace, Phillip E. Warwick & Jenny E Morris, 2012, Environmental Science & Technology, 46(11), 5704-5712