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Special Issue of Polymer dedicated to Professor David Bassett
A special edition of the international journal 'Polymer' has been
published which includes 28 contributions from friends and colleagues of David
Bassett. These contributions have been gathered as tributes to David on the
occasion of his retirement.
The
editors write, 'David locates his scientific interests ‘in the central area of
Polymer Physics, structure/property relationships, namely fundamental studies of
textural organization and its formation, from molecular to macroscopic
dimensions, within semi-crystalline polymers, especially polyethylene and
polypropylene, with applications to a wide variety of interesting polymeric
materials and their (mostly mechanical) properties. This description actually
hides a string of remarkable contributions to our understanding of polymer
structure and properties.'
The
special issue contains a contribution from the current Polymer activity at
Reading led by Professor Mitchell which is
focused on
crystallisation from sheared polymer melts
Current Polymer Science Research
Single crystals of silicon probed with new neutron scattering
procedure
 Research
led by Dr Roger Stewart has led to the
development of a new procedure for the examination of silicon crystals used in
semiconductor devices. The image shows the neutron scattering pattern recorded
using D22 at the International Neutron Scattering Facility ILL in France. By
using a novel time-of-flight procedure they were able to separate out scattered
neutrons of different energy. The separation of the inelastic scattering enables
a more detailed analysis of the structure of impurities in the crystals,
essential for the continued enhanced performed of semi-conductor devices.
Full details are available in the paper
J.Y.Cheung, R.J.Stewart and R.P.May Journal of Applied Crystallography (2006)
39 46-52
Physics research featured at Parliamentary Conference
 Raj Poornachandran
photographed with local MP Mr Rob
Wilson at the House of Commons.
Raj is a researcher from the Royal
Berkshire and Battle Hospital (RBBH) Trust working with Dr Moira Hilton and Dr
Mike Welch from the Physics Department on a new area of medical related research
“Optical diagnostic methods for
non-invasive determination of chemical compounds in blood”. Raj presented
the work at a recent Parliamentary event “Physics Research and the New
Parliament”.
Physics research featured on cover of top international journal
A research paper arising from the PhD thesis work of Supatra Wangsoub
is featured on the front cover of Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
(shown left). The paper is titled
"Directed Crystallisation of Poly(ε-caprolactone) using a
Low-Molar-Mass Self-Assembled Template" Supatra Wangsoub, Robert H. Olley,
Geoffrey R. Mitchell
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