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In October of 2006 MMU took delivery of an internationally unique analytical scanning electron microscope. Please click on the links below to get more information on this system.

System component overview (59KB Adobe PDF)
Presentation given by Dr V Vishnyakov detailing analytical opportunities for system (2.5MB Adobe PDF)

The system is currently operational and ready for use. (Click on the photo for a higher resolution image)

Please contact Dr V Vishnyakov for further details

Professor Joanna Verran is one of the partners in a £4 million EU funded Integrated Project, (PathogenCombat project), which is a working to find out how existing and emerging food pathogens can be controlled. Professor Verran’s contribution is part of the 'Hygienic Processing Systems Work Package'. Her group will be working on factors affecting the retention of microorganisms and organic food material on food contact surfaces, in order to develop improved surfaces, hygienic design and cleaning regimes. The interdisciplinary nature of the research in the Dalton Research Institute has placed us in an excellent position to carry out this research which will involve surface-engineering, microbiology, and a wide range of analytical techniques.

Environmental Concerns

The group has run several energy-related seminars

Professor Colligon, Editor of Vcauum, has produced two special issues relating to energy:

The World Energy Crisis: Some Vacuum-based Solutions (Vacuum, Vol 80, Issue 10, 2006)
The World Energy Crisus Part 2: Some more Vacuum-based Solutions (To be published Vacuum 2008)

A Review of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells by Dr V.M. Vishnyakov is published in Vacuum, Vol 80, Issue 10, 2006.