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EPSRC Reference:	GR/S06844/01
Title:	Molecular Engineering at Soft Condensed Interfaces via Environmental NEXAFS Spectroscopy
Principal Investigator:	Roberts, Professor KJ
Other Investigators:	Peacock, Dr C
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Department:	Chemical Engineering
Organisation:	University of Leeds
Scheme:	Overseas Travel Grants Pre-FEC
Starts:	01 June 2002	Ends:	30 November 2002	Value (£):	5,700
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Complex fluids & soft solids
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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Funding is requested from the EPSRC to support a 6-month research programme which will enable the continuation of the development and exploitation of environmental polarised NEXAFS spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation. To this aim a dedicated environmental end station has been built and commissioned and now enables collection of NEXAFS spectra around the ultra-soft X-ray region (C, N and O K-edges) for both electron yield (EY) and fluorescence yield (FY) measurements over a pressure range of 10-4 to 10-10 mbar and temperature range 150 - 500 K.Using the environmental chamber two inter-related work programmes are proposed: (a) the orientational characteristics of dyes on different cellulose substrates;(b) structural ordering of tailor-made amino acid additive species on host single crystal surfaces.
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