Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Ian Sinclair

Professor of Engineering Materials
Connect with Ian

Email: I.Sinclair@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Simon Coles

Professor of Structural Chemistry
Research interests
  • The work we do is highly collaborative and multidisciplinary and can broadly be split into three overlapping themes:
  • 1) National Crystallography Service (NCS, www.ncs.ac.uk) & Physical Sciences Data-science Service (PSDS, www.psds.ac.uk) These national centres provide centralised facilities for UK researchers at a level that is beyond that achievable in any single institution. The NCS provides data collection and crystal structure analysis for the UK chemistry community. It also performs projects based on more advanced techniques, involving a dedicated team of experts employing cutting edge techniques and the use of very high-powered laboratory diffractometers or the UK synchrotron, Diamond. The PSDS provides national-level access to databases and is building infrastructure on top of these to drive and support data-driven approaches to scientific discovery.
  • 2) Structural Chemistry We have an interest in determining the mechanisms of solid-state reactions and transformations and use a variety of diffraction and physical characterisation methods for this. Other work focuses on discovering and investigating structure-property relationships, the determination of charge densities and their properties and 'value-added' quantum mechanical calculations to compute properties from crystal structures. We also collaborate with other disciplines in a number of areas such as macromolecular crystallography (Biology), crystal growth (biology) and CT imaging (Engineering).
Connect with Simon

Email: S.J.Coles@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Richard Oreffo DPhil DSc (Oxon) FMedSci FHEA FRSB FIOR

Research interests
  • Skeletal Regenerative MedicineSkeletal Stem Cells
Connect with Richard

Email: Richard.Oreffo@soton.ac.uk

Professor Mark Spearing

Vice-President (Research & Enterprise)
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Email: S.M.Spearing@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Chris Clayton

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Email: C.Clayton@soton.ac.uk

Professor Jeremy Frey

Professor of Physical Chemistry
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Email: J.G.Frey@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Mark Nixon

Research interests
  • My research interests are in image processing and computer vision.
  • I have helped to develop new techniques for static and moving shape extraction (both parametric and non-parametric) which have found application in automatic face and automatic gait recognition and in medical image analysis.
Connect with Mark

Email: msn@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Improved tribological behavior of DLC films under water lubrication by surface texturing
Qi Ding, Liping Wang, Yonqxin Wang, S.C. Wang, Litian Hu & Qunji Xue, 2011, Tribology Letters, 41(2), 439-449
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-010-9730-1
Type: article
Micro- and nano-scale tribo-corrosion of cast CoCrMo
D. Sun, J.A. Wharton & R.J.K. Wood, 2011, Tribology Letters, 41(3), 525-533
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-011-9757-y
Type: article
Nanocomposite microstructure and environment self-adapted tribological properties of highly hard graphite-like films
Yongxin Wang, Liping Wang, S. Wang, Guangan Zhang, Robert Wood & Qunji Xue, 2010, Tribology Letters, 40(3), 301-310
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-010-9663-8
Type: article
Skeletal stem cells and bone regeneration: translational strategies from bench to clinic
R.S. Tare, J. Kanczler, A. Aarvold, A.M.H. Jones, D.G. Dunlop & R.O.C. Oreffo, 2010, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 224(12), 1455-1470
DOI: 10.1243/09544119JEIM750
Type: article
Effect of bias voltage on microstructure and properties of Ti-doped graphite-like carbon films synthesized by magnetron sputtering
Yongxin Wang, Liping Wang, Guangan Zhang, S.C. Wang, R.J.K. Wood & Qunji Xue, 2010, Surface and Coatings Technology, 205(3), 793-800
DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2010.07.112
Type: article