Surface Science Western Director Professor Dave Shoesmith and Senior Research Scientist Dr. Sridhar Ramamurthy have been awarded an Imperial Oil Limited University Research Award ($25,000) to develop a better understanding of the corrosion behaviour of typical engineering materials used in refinery processes in solutions containing dilute fluoride ions, with and...Read More
Surface Science Western was recently featured on CTV London News. See link for video or copy and paste the link below. http://london.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=801269Read More
We are delighted to report the following from December’s UNENE R&D Workshop in Toronto. This is an annual meeting of UNENE/NSERC Industrial Research Chairs from across the province, their research groups, the UNENE Research Advisory Committee, and nuclear industry stakeholders, including OPG, CNSC, Bruce Power, CNL, CANDU Energy, NWMO, COG,...Read More
On June 15, 2015, we took delivery of our new Hitachi SU3500 Variable Pressure Scanning Electron Microscope combined with an Oxford AZtec X-Max50 SDD energy dispersive detector. The SEM can be run in standard high vacuum mode and provides standard high resolution images and EDS micro analysis. The SU3500 can...Read More
Congratulations to Ms. Thalia Standish, PhD candidate from the Department of Chemistry at Western University, winner of the 2015 Dr. N. Stewart McIntyre Award in Surface Science. Thalia’s research abstract was entitled “Galvanic Corrosion between Copper and Carbon Steel: An Investigation for Nuclear Waste Disposal Containers”. Thalia has used a...Read More
Prof. David Shoesmith, Department of Chemistry and Surface Science Western Director is the winner of this year’s H.H. Uhlig Award of the Corrosion Division of the Electrochemical Society. Dave will receive the award, and a reception in his honour will be held, at the Electrochemical Society fall meeting in Phoenix...Read More
We are pleased to announce the completed installation of our new Bruker Tensor II FTIR system with Hyperion 2000 microscope! This new system provides all of the same analysis options that SSW has offered to you over the years, as well as some exciting new capabilities. We have purchased a...Read More
SSW has recently upgraded the EDX system on our Hitachi S4500 field emission SEM to a Quartz PCI XOne SSD X-ray analyzer. The system consists of a PulseTor Maxim silicon drift detector (SDD) combined with a Quartz Imaging XOne image and EDX capture software. The state-of-the-art detector is electronically cooled...Read More
The results of various research and analyses carried out at Surface Science Western were on display as part of Western Science`s Interdisciplinary Research Showcase held on December 2, 2014. Research findings from SSW staff and students and a variety of groups that utilize SSW facilities were presented. In this past...Read More
After 27 years with SSW, it is with heavy hearts but warmest wishes that we announce the retirement of Ross Davidson, our Operations Manager, on September 30, 2014. We are indebted to his vision and commitment for propelling us to our present position in this niche industry. His expertise in...Read More
