Group Members

The group members are listed below along with links to their individual webpages.

Academics

Dr Diane Holland (Head of Group)

PhD Students

Martin Mee - "Environmental protection by waste encapsulation: a fundamental study of atomic environments"

Nattapol Laorodphan - "Structural study of lone pair cation in glasses"

Andrew Grigg - "Characterisation of cation and halide distribution in immobilised legacy wastes"

Oliver Alderman - "The Structure of Binary Oxide Glasses"

Lab Technicians

Dave Hammond

Past Students

Raba'Ah Azis - "NMR study of structure development in sol-gel YIG and YAG"

Nathan Barrow - "Novel half-integer quadrupolar solid state NMR correlation experiments for probing atomic proximities and connectivities in disordered materials"

Robin Orman - "Characterisation of novel antimony (III) oxide-containing glasses"

Emma Barney - "The structural role of lone pair ions in novel glasses and glass forming systems"

B. Parkinson - "Influence of Composition on Structure and Caesium Volatilisation from Glasses for HLW Confinement"

M. Islam - "The effect of diavalent oxides on the wasteform glass for high level waste vitrification" (2005)

R. Orman (MSc) - "Phase Transitions in Antimony Oxides and Related Glasses" (2005)

B. Parkinson (MSc) - "An investigation of caesium borate glass volitility in high level waste vitrification" (2004)

P. Ingram (MSc) - "Crystal phase formation in tin containing glasses" (2004)

A. Duddridge - "Ultrasonic and structural characterisation of borosilicate glasses containing HLW simulants" (2004)

R. Alipanah - "Structure development in sol-gel derived barium hexaferrites" (2003)

A Niyompan - "Fast-ion conducting glasses and glass-ceramics for pH sensing" (2002)

J. Roderick - "A characterisation and radiation resistance study of a mixed-modifier borosilicate glass of HLW vitrification" (2001)

K. Pengpat - "Ferroelectric glass-ceramics" (2001)

I. Gee - "X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy studies of oxide based Glass systems" (2000)

S.J. Ison - "Interfacial reactions between PbO-rich glasses and aluminium composites" (2000)

U. S. Bjorkert - "High temperature CO₂ permselective membranes" (1999)

K. Garrett - "The encapsulationof nuclear waste in a magnesium aluminosilicate glass-ceramic" (1999)

J. F. Bent - "An experimental study of some silicate based glasses" (1998)

A. J. Sears - "The characterisation of stannosilicate glasses" (1998)

R. Hussin - "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance studies of some germanate and phosphate based glasses" (1998)

A. K. Mekki - "X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and magnetic studies of transition metal silicate glasses" (1997)

R. S. Dobedoe - "Glass-ceramics for ceramic/ceramic and ceramic/metal joining applications" (1997)

M. Bartholomew (MSc) - "The characterisation of glob-top materials for chip-on-board components" (1997)

S. E. Burrows - "Silicone encapsulants for microelectronic devices" (1997)

G. J. Gibbons - "Polyorganosiloxanes as electronic device encapsulants" (1996)

K. K. Mallick - "Strengthening of container glasses and related compositions" (1995)

M. M. Karim - "A study of tin oxides in silicate based glasses" (1995)

M. W. G. Lockyer - "High resolution multinuclear nuclear magnetic resonance studies of oxide glasses" (1993)

A. Taylor - "The chemical synthesis and crystallisation sequence of mullite" (1992)

M. E. Yakinci - "Thick film glass-ceramic superconductor fabrication" (1992)

F. Hong - "Interactions between glass-ceramics coatings and metals" (1991)

R. Sahar - "A study on oxyhalide glasses" (1990)

M. G. Mortuza - "A nuclear magnetic resonance investigation of the structure of some alkali silicate glasses" (1989)

A. Kemp- "The electrical and other physical properties of haloborate glasses and glass-ceramics" (1987)

A. J. Sturgeon - "Glass-ceramic coatings for metals" (1987)

D. Bridge - "Aspects of electronic device packaging" (1986)

M. Assuncano - "Thermoelectric measurements on amorphous semiconductors" (1986)

M. S. Meikhail - "Study of the physical properties of some glasses" (1985)