Our second Tech Talk of the series is next week. It'll be on Electron BackScatter Diffraction for microstructural analysis.

Hosted by SWMA and open to anyone interested. We will be hosting online, so sign up if interested! To sign up please click the following link: forms.gle/WHoMt3TrFkYb... 🧪

We're starting a technical talk series. The first is an introductory short talk into elemental analysis in SEMs (EDS and WDS).

Hosted by SWMA and open to anyone interested. For new potential users of the technique. We will be hosting online, so sign up if interested! 🧪

Great talk hosted by the SWMA tonight at Swansea University by Dr Barnes from Innovate UK on The Race to Decarbonise Transport.

Embarking on an unusual bit of materials science today. We're Focused Ion Beam milling paint flakes from a 16/17th century Venetian painting to see what pigments they used.

Always fun to do cross discipline work and use the fancy machines on things we never thought to do before. 🧪

Strange weather today at the Bay Campus. Awesome to have this right next to the campus.

Great until we have sea level rises that is...

These are crystals of Iron-Silicon made by a pack cementation process. I was trying to make Beta FeSi as a cheap thermoelectric but instead of a nice coherent layer I got these weird hopper-like crystals caused by a direct gas to solid transition.

The SEM image was taken during my EngD in 2015. 🔬 🐡