Industrial Applications of
Crystallography
Academic-Industrial Liason
Industrial Materials Group, Dept. of Crystallography, Birkbeck
College, London:
- Our Mission is
to understand structure and kinetics of
functional materials; how they behave during synthesis or during
performance
- Typical materials investigated recently include Cements,
Ceramics, Zeolites and oil-well cores with industrial support
from Castle cement, MEL, British Gas, and Schlumberger
Example
SEM photograph of a micro-structure, made from a synthetic
clay/latex/cement mixture and showing excellent replication of
the X-ray lithographic mould, which
was used to test the
feasibility of making cement supported zeolite microsensors
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Industrial Group of the BCA