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EPSRC Reference:	GR/R47844/01
Title:	High Performance Imaging XPS Facility for Materials Research
Principal Investigator:	Thompson, Professor GE
Other Investigators:	Vaughan, Professor DJ Vickerman, Professor JC Leggett, Professor G Alexander, Professor MR Pattrick, Professor RA Carr, Professor CM Carr, Professor C Wogelius, Professor RA
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Department:	Materials
Organisation:	University of Manchester, The
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 March 2002	Ends:	31 August 2005	Value (£):	570,876
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Materials Characterisation
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Aerospace, Defence and Marine Manufacturing Chemicals Electronics Environment Healthcare Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology Energy Transport Systems and Vehicles
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A proposal is made for an imaging X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) instrument. The spectrometer will underpin and create new opportunities in the following research areas in the collaborating departments; coatings (patterned self-assembled monolayers, SAM multilayers and SAM in semiconductor processing and fractography of adhesively bonded joints), interfacial chemistry (organic-aluminium oxide/hydroxide interactions and mineral biofilm interactions, corrosion inhibition and the interactions of scale inhibitors with mineral surfaces), surface engineering (surface modification for improved paint adhesion and performance, chemical vapour deposition, plasma treatment, fluorination and enzyme treatment of textile and fibre surfaces and anodising and anodic processes), process engineering and mineral surfaces (sorption of heavy metals by the surfaces of ultra fine particle mineral phases), degradation of materials (breakdown and weathering of silicate minerals and glasses phases) and catalysis (microporous materials).
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