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Matija awarded for SIMS 23 presentation
Congratulations Matija on winning the Rowland Hill Award for best student presentation at SIMS 23 in Minneapolis! Matija’s award-winning presentation was entitled ‘“Effects of Reactive Gas Cluster Ion Beams on Yields and Matrix Effects in SIMS”
Invited Presentation – Atomic Level Characterisation
Nick gave an invited talk at the 14th International Symposium on Atomic Level
Characterizations for New Materials and Devices (ALC’22) conference in Okinawa, Japan. The talk was entitled ‘Improved bioanalysis using GCIB SIMS and laser post-ionisation’ highlighting recent progress in fundamentals and applications of ToF-SIMS.
Keynote Presentation – British Mass Spectrometry Society
Nick gave the Keynote Presentation in the Mutimodal Session of the 42nd BMSS Conference in Manchester in September. The talk was titled ‘Multimodal Mass Spectrometry and Optical Imaging of a Neuroinflammation Model‘ and showcased our collaboration with the Medicines Discovery Catapult and colleagues in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health.
Invited Talk – UK Surface Analysis Forum
Nick gave an Invited Talk at the UKSAF meeting at the Henry Royce Institute hub, entitiled ‘Advances in ToF-SIMS using massive gas cluster ion beams‘.
New Publication – Plants
Akhila has published a review article in the Journal Plants:
| Mass Spectrometry Imaging for Spatial Chemical Profiling of Vegetative Parts of Plants Akhila Ajith, Phillip J. Milnes, Giles N. Johnson and Nicholas P. Lockyer Plants 11 (2022) 1234 |
New Publication – Surface and Interface Analysis
Our recent work on cluster ion beam developments has been published in the Special Issue in honour of Martin Seah.
Sensitivity enhancement using chemically reactive gas cluster ion beams in secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS)
Matija Lagator, Irma Berrueta Razo, Thomas Royle, and Nicholas P. Lockyer
Surf. Interface Anal. 54 (2022) 349-355
Welcome Abdulrhman
The world urgently needs better battery technology to rapidly move towards a low‐carbon society. However, commercially‐available batteries currently do not store enough energy, have limited working lifetimes, and are too expensive to make large‐scale electrification viable. To design improved batteries, a better understand of chemical processes inside a battery during charging and discharging is needed. This requires measuring the flow of ions and electrons across multiple interfaces, buried within the battery. Abdulrhman’s PhD project will develop methodologies to study these interfaces using secondary ion mass spectrometry and X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The project is co-supervised by Dr Alex Walton.
Congratulations Dr Danielle McDougall
Congratulations to Danielle on the award of her PhD! Her project ‘Diagnosing the Masses’ explored differentiation and drug interactions of prostate cancer cells and tissue using SIMS, DESI and Laser-REIMS mass spectrometry imaging. Thanks to Dr Adam McMahon from the Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre and Dr Emrys Jones from Waters Corp. for their co-supervision.
BBSRC DTP PhD studentship
Applications are invited for a cross-faculty BBSRC DTP studentship entitled: Imaging inflammatory changes in tissues by mass spectrometry
This project will focus on the use of mass spectrometry imaging of biological tissues to explore and further develop their capabilities in the context of inflammation research. Inflammation is central to progression and outcome of a wide range of important conditions including stroke, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease.
Details of the project, application process and eligibility requirements can be found here. Eligible applicants should contact the primary supervisor Adam.McMahon@manchester.ac.uk before making a formal application (deadline 22 Jan 2021)
Collaboration with the Rosalind Franklin Institute
We have started a collaboration with the Biological Mass Spectrometry theme of the Rosalind Franklin Institute, led by Profs. Josephine Bunch and Zoltan Takats. This aims to develop new capabilities for mass specrometry imaging using SIMS and laser post-ionisation. We welcome back Dr Sadia Sheraz to the group to lead the experiments at the Photon Science Institute.
The Rosalind Franklin Institute is a new national institute, funded by the UK government through UK Research and Innovation, dedicated to bringing about transformative changes in life science through interdisciplinary research and technology development.
Congratulations Dr Aldossari!
Congratulations to Samar on the award of her PhD. Her thesis entitled ‘Detection and localisation of drug molecules in biological samples using secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS)’ was co-supervised by Dr Katie Moore and employed both ToF-SIMS and NanoSIMS.
New ToF-SIMS instrument delivered
Christmas came early this week at SARC with the delivery of our new J105 Instrument. Thanks to the hard work of the guys from Ionoptika Ltd it was assembled and at vacuum in 48h.
Welcome Matija
We welcome a new PhD student, Matija Lagator from Serbia. Matija will work on the new J105-SIMS instrument. His project is entitled ‘Development of Novel High Energy Cluster Ion Beam Methodology for Molecular Analysis and Imaging’.
New project funded
| New Developments in Quantitative 3D Chemical Imaging
A major new EPSRC grant of £844k will allow us to explore further the 3D imaging SIMS capabilities of reactive cluster projectile using a new high-energy ion beam. Project partners include Prof Ian Gilmore at the National Physical Laboratory and Prof Arnaud Delcorte at the Universite catholique de Louvain. The funding, togther with investment from the Henry Royce Institute allows us to replace our prototype Ionoptika J105 SIMS with the latest model, including a 70 keV water cluster beam. This comes 10 y after the installation of the first J105 instrument in Manchester. |