The Bragg Exchange 2022
We are delighted to invite you to The Bragg Exchange 2022, the Bragg Centre for Materials Research's 4th annual research symposium.
Date and time
Location
The Great Hall, University of Leeds
Woodhouse Lane Woodhouse LS2 9JT United KingdomAbout this event
To celebrate moving into our new home, we are opening our doors and broadcasting the best of the Bragg Centre to the world!
With internal and guest speakers, it’s time to Bragg about Materials Research.
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We are thrilled to be able to warmly reunite our flourishing community together for The Bragg Exchange 2022, taking place in the prestigious Great Hall on Tuesday 25th January 2022.
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Agenda
09:00 Registration opens, refreshments
Welcome
09:30 – 09:50 Welcome & Housekeeping
Prof. Edmund Linfield – Bragg Centre Director,
Prof. Nick Plant – Deputy Vice Chancellor: Research & Innovation,
Dr Andrew Lee – Bragg Centre Manager,
Session 1: Soft matter
09:50 – 10:20 Prof. Tom McLeish,
University of York
Spinning a Yarn of the Molecular Rheology of Natural Silk Spinning: Sticky Polymer Reptation in Extensional Flow
10:20 – 10:30 Lightening Talks:
Ben Kew
James Warren
Natalia Koniuch
Merin Joseph
Daniel Baldwin
10:30 – 10:50 Dr Olivia Pabois
Microgel-reinforced hydrogel with ultra-high lubricity
for oral therapeutic application
11:50 – 11:10 Comfort Break
Session 2: Electronic and Photonic materials
11:10 – 11:40 Dr Chiara Ciccarelli,
University of Cambridge
Spin-charge interconversion: from nanosecond to picosecond timescales.
11:40 - 11:50 Lightening Talks:
Alexander Massey
Jintao Shuai
Lin Huang
Solymosi Bence
Robert Mackay
11:50 – 12:10 Sean Stansill
Quantitative multiscale modelling of antiferromagnets
with semi-quantum spin dynamics
Session 3: Bionanotechnology
12:10 – 12:30 Dr Jo Foster,
Institute for Research in Schools
How to turn teenagers into research scientists
12:30 – 12:40 Lightening Talks:
Rachel Bocking
Johanna Galloway
Ilaria Sandei
Samuel Confederat
Kwan You
12:40 – 13:00 Dr Matteo Castronovo
Enzymatic DNA ligation within two-dimensional DNA origami
depends on nanostructure shape
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch / VIP Lunch
Session 4: Functional Surfaces
14:30 – 15:00 Prof. Jas Pal Badyal,
Department of Chemistry, Durham University
Scalable Functional Nanocoatings for Technological and Humanitarian Applications
15:00– 15:10 Lightening Talks:
Robert Elkington
Wu Guizhi
Eric Kumi Barimah
Kristine Dreva
Amna Khatun
15:10 – 15:30 Dr Amin Sadeghpour Dilmaghani
Nanoscale Structural Hierarchy in Electrospun Membranes:
X-ray Scattering Analytics and Biofunctional Visions
15:30 – 15:50 Comfort Break
Session 5: Multiscale Materials
15:50 – 16:10 Prof. Susan Bernal Lopez
Materials science needs for transforming the construction materials sector
16:10 – 16:20 Lightening Talks:
Thomas Turner
Alastair Marsh
Thomas Moore
Mohammed Al-Mosawi
Timothy Brown
16:20 – 16:50 Dr Aurora J. Cruz-Cabeza,
University of Manchester
From molecules to crystals to particulate products: Challenges and Opportunities
16:50 – 17:00 Concluding remarks
Dr Andrew Lee – Bragg Centre manager,
Prof. Edmund Linfield – Bragg Centre Director
Posters & Drinks Reception
17:30 – 19:30 Atrium, Sir William Henry Bragg Building
We will be showcasing the best of our homegrown research with classic A0 posters and dynamic video posters, accompanying the lightning presentations from earlier in the day.