Understanding and modifying surfaces

10.00

Registration – refreshments

10.30

Welcome and BACS future programme

Chairman

10.40

The app-based approach to understanding surfaces

Professor Steven Abbott

11.05

AFM and relevant interfacial characterisation tools to understand surfaces (tbc)

Dr Zhenyu Jason Zhang, University of Birmingham

11.30

Understanding and measuring surface energy

Dr Andrew Mellor , KRÜSS Surface Science Centre  

11.55

Lunch

13:00

The effect of surface properties and modifications on microbial attachment, retention and biofilm formation

Professor Kathryn Whitehead, Manchester Metropolitan University

13.25

The determination of surface energy properties of polymers using inverse gas chromatography

Dr Sabiyah Jannat Ahmed, Surface Measurement Systems

13.50

Break

14.10

Physical chemistry characterisation of surface fouling

Dr Joels Wilson Niewenhuis, Holchem Laboratories Ltd

14.35

Question and answer session

15:00

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