Surface Science Western Director, Mark Biesinger, has been awarded the Institute of Advanced Materials, IAAM Scientist Medal. Mark received this honor for his contributions to materials characterization and presented his work on “Advancing X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) Methodologies for Materials Research” at the 62nd Assembly of Advanced Materials Congress held...Read More
We are proud to highlight our role in advancing the electric vehicle (EV) industry through our comprehensive manufacturing support services, as featured in a recent article by Western News (see below). At Surface Science Western, we collaborate with automotive manufacturers from across North America, providing them with critical analysis and...Read More
We are excited to announce that Maja Radisic Hoang will be with us for the next 16 months as a laboratory assistant, supporting mineral processing at SSW for her 4th year science internship placement. Maja works alongside research scientists Baian Almusned and Carolyn Hill-Svehla to support sample preparation and materials...Read More
At SSW, we sometimes make important discoveries from unexpected things. Many students come to us with reference images from publications, but when we examine their samples, we see something that is completely different. That’s what happened to UofT engineer Goutham Rangarajan. Goutham’s images show the unexpected shapes and forms of...Read More
Congratulations to Heng-Yong Nie, SSW’s resident Tof-SIMS expert, on his recent coauthored Nature Communications publication. In this publication, the discharge products of all-solid-state Li-S batteries were probed using various spectroscopic techniques, with the intentions of designing a feasible strategy to improve their performance. Heng-Yong helped by determining the levels of...Read More
Dr. Stamen Dimov We are wishing one of our leading Research Scientists, Dr. Stamen Dimov, a “happy retirement”! After joining SSW in 2007, Stamen has been a has been a key innovator and leader for SSW’s mineral processing team. Over the years he has actively collaborated with industry and academic...Read More
Surface Science Western has a collection of metrological tools to measure, quantify, and analyze surface morphology of samples at various length scales, from nanometers to centimeters. Some of these specialty techniques include atomic force microscopy (AFM), stylus profilometry, confocal scanning laser microscopy (CLSM), and the recently acquired optical coordinate measuring...Read More
We are thrilled to share a newly published peer-reviewed article by Adam Morgan, Ph.D. candidate supervised by Dr. James Noel, and in collaboration with several Surface Science Western (SSW) Scientists – Jeffrey D. Henderson, Brad Kobe, and Mark Biesinger. In this paper, Adam details the use of the Quantitative Analysis...Read More
Over the past several years, Dr. Marshall Yang has dedicated countless hours to training on and utilizing the advanced instrumentation and expertise available at Surface Science Western (SSW). During his tenure at SSW, Marshall used our field emission and tungsten filament scanning electron microscopy (FESEM / SEM), confocal laser scanning...Read More
Cathode-Ray Tube TVs and computer monitors utilize a special electromagnetic phenomenon known as cathodoluminescence (CL) to produce visible light on a fluorescent screen. This technology’s use in modern computers and TVs has been gradually phased out in favour of LED technology, but interestingly this phenomenon has been utilized as a...Read More
