Nanoporous membrane gives ion beam patterning powers
Aiden Lockwood and Wei Guan were awarded travel awards from the IOP CR Barber Trust fund of £175 each to attend and present their work at the MRS 2011 Fall meeting in Boston, MA, USA. Aiden was also awarded an additional RMS travel award of £250 to attend the same conference
Prof Inkson and Dr Lockwood have had an active collaboration with Prof M S Bobji and group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore India. Research exchange visits to India in July 2011 and visits of Prof Bobji and G Vikram to Sheffield in July and Sept/Oct have been funded by a joint NanoLAB-IISc UKIERI British Council NanoBALLS project
Prof Inkson and the NanoLAB organised the meeting Nanoscale Effects in Tribology, (NET 2011) held in Sheffield June 2011. This meeting attracted over 50 attendees, and was supported by the EPSRC, IOM3, IMechE, IET, NanoKTN, IOP, MaterialsKTN, HealthcareKTN and Nanofactory
Shooting videos in the nanoworld to observe nanoscale processes.
Prof Inkson gave an invited talk at the Institute of Physics Workshop Small Scale Tribology, London, May 2011