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Irish Branch News & Reviews Preliminary Notice
The Irish Branch of the IMF have organised a REACh & CLP (classification of labelling and packaging) one day Seminar on
Thursday 12th May 2011 in the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dublin Northwood.
Further details will be available soon.
InvestNI, part of the Department of Enterprise Trade and Investment in Northern Ireland have agreed to host and organise a seminar on GHS, REACH and the effect on COSHH. The Northern Ireland Health and Safety Executive will also be taking part. A date has now be fixed and will be held on Tuesday 20th April with registration at 9.30 – 10.00am in the headquarters of InvestNI in Belfast. The seminar which is free is sponsored by InvestNI with lunch provided. It is expected to finish around 12.45pm. Further information can be obtained from Fred Andrews.E-mail Address(es): andrewsf@sky.com or
fredrandrews@googlemail.com
Irish Branch Represented at Materials Ireland Conference
The 2nd annual Materials Ireland Conference was held in the Tyndall Institute in Cork on the 14th and 15th December last. These conferences are used to promote world leading research and development in Materials Science and Engineering. The occasion allows a forum for professionals and students interested in Advanced Materials.
There were 4 sessions over the two days: Metals, Composites, Industrial Materials and Functional Oxides.
Each session was addressed by an invited speaker which was followed by contributed talks from mostly acedemics. There were 25 presentations in all.
The keynote speaker was Professor Kirk Ziegler from University of Florida who discussed the present status of characterizing and controlling the interfaces of single walled nanotubes with respect to improving their dispersion in aqueous environments and improving their practical usefulness.
In the Metals session, Paul Louis Schaffer from Hydro Aluminium Norway gave a lecture on Dendritic and Eutectic Growth in Aluminium Alloys and discussed a model that was developed for the solidifiction conditions which could be used to derive posssible routes for further improvement and development.
In the composites session, Professor Michael McCarthy from University of Limerick’s topic was again carbon nanotubes, but this time, their use for load transfer properties in composites and methods for analysing same.
Our own Denis Dowling was Chair of the Industrial Session which included a lecture by guest speaker Dr Pascale Vangeli from Outokumpu. She discussed new developments in high performance stainless steel grades, these were the super-austentic and super-duplex stainless steel grades that have been developed over the last 20 years with great commercial success.
Professor Andy Mills from the University of Strathclythe gave a highly practical talk on Semiconductor Photocatalysis from self cleaning glass to new markets such as sunburn warnings or water purification systems.
There was also great interest in another lecture on novel sealing process for anodized aluminum by Brendan Duffy of CREST.
A poster competition was held in the annex of the Tyndall Institue over the 2 days and there were 40 posters covering such topics as Zinc Oxide thin films to Copper nanotube cores for energy applications. The overall winner was “Growth and Doping of GE nanowires and co-axial hetrostructures”.
The Irish Branch of the IMF were sponsors for this event along with Enterprise Ireland, Science Foundation Ireland and the Tyndall Institure of University College Cork. We were represented by Ann Hopper and Sam Briggs attended as President of the Institute. The Conference was well attended and the occasion allowed to meet up with members of the Materials Ireland board and IOM3 who were also represented at the event. They were also chairs of some of the sessions and by sponsoring this type of event it will keep IMF’s name to the forefront of new technology.
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