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UK Surface Analysis Forum
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The UK Surface Analysis Forum is a society for scientists from academia & industry with a common interest in the techniques and applications of surface analysis. Next meeting: NPL 15-16 July 2025 Website: http://www.uksaf.org
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 16
We look forward to seeing you at the next meeting, provisionally booked for Wednesday January 7th at UCL, with Robert Palgrave taking over hosting duties!
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 16
With that, the meeting has come to a close. Thank you to all of the speakers, delegates & vendors who made this a special and successful meeting. Congratulations to our local organisers, David Cant, Benjamen Reed, Gustavo F. Trindade & Alex Shard, along with the NPL events team.
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 16
It's time to honour our YSA competition winners! We had 6 finalists who all delivered excellent talks & posters, making the judging very difficult! In the end, the winners were:

Seah Award - Eleanor Ender
Castle Award - Aleksandar Radic
IOP Crossley Award - Anna Trzaska

Congratulations to you all!
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 16
We are delighted to announce that Sebastiaan Van Nuffel has been awarded the Vickerman Prize for his extensive track record in mass spectrometry imaging, specifically time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS), and its application in biological and medical research. Congratulations!
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 16
The final talk of the Summer 2025 UKSAF meeting is from Anna Kotowska of the University of Nottingham. She is presenting her work on the chemical analysis of biofilms with Orbi-SIMS.
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 16
Our final session begins with a talk from Clare Newell from the The Francis Crick Institute and NPL with her latest work on cryo-orbiSIMS.
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 16
Next up we have Marcus Rohnke describing work on hard carbon battery anodes.

Following this will be vendor presentations from SPECS Surface Nano Analysis GmbH (Paul Dietrich), IONTOF (Matthias Kleine-Boymann) and Scienta Omicron (Ad Ettema).
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 16
This afternoon's session began with Sebastiaan Van Nuffel covering various interesting applications of TOF-SIMS imaging.
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 16
Jean-Paul Barnes is our next speaker, describing his group's work on correlative work using TOF-SIMS, XPS and SEM.
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 16
Our next session is underway with an entertaining and insightful talk on advances in quantitative atomic scale TEM from Sarah Haigh from the University of Manchester.
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 16
Secondly, congratulations to Alex Shard from NPL who has been recognised for his career at the forefront of surface analysis.

Citations will be on the UKSAF website shortly!
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 16
We are pleased to announce not one but TWO winners of the UKSAF Riviere Prize.

Firstly Jiro Matuso is honoured for their work in the development of ion sources for surface analysis.
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 16
Our second Travel Award presentation is from Charlie Chandler from Surrey on new developments in XPS depth profiling.
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 16
We are starting day 2 with two UKSAF Travel Award presentations, first up is Yizhuo Ding from the University of Manchester.
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 15
Our final talk today is from Elizabeth Legge from National Physical Laboratory (NPL) focusing on Raman spectroscopy of pharmaceutical materials.

Next up vendor presentations from Thermo Fisher Scientific, Blue Scientific and Kratos Analytical, before our poster session & conference dinner.
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 15
Kicking off the final session of today is Ian Gilmore from NPL speaking on OrbiSIMS
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 15
Our next speaker is Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social from the University of Oxford presenting her work on complex interfaces using HAXPES.
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 15
We are pleased to welcome Olivier RENAULT to speak on challenges in reproducibility in HAXPES analysis.
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 15
Our YSA finalists are up now introducing their posters. Good luck to Anya Eyres (NPL), Anna Trzaska (Nottingham), William Skinner (Imperial), Eleanor Ender (Manchester), Madeline Berrow (Nottingham) and Aleksandar Radic (Cambridge)!
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 15
Our next speaker is Chris Hinkle from Notre Dame speaking on Room-Temperature Ferromagnetism in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides.
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 15
Our first speaker is our newly announced Vickerman Prize winner, Mark Biesinger. Mark presented much of his important work on transition metals with XPS.
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 15
Our meeting is underway with introductions from David Morgan and Alex Shard!
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jul 15
We are here at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) for the 2025 summer meeting of the UK Surface Analysis Forum. Looking forward to two great days of science and networking with a full house of 125 delegates!
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Dr Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social · Jul 15
Lovely morning train journey to Teddington to visit the National Physical Laboratory for the @uksaf.bsky.social meeting today ☀️ Looking forward to a great program and my invited talk on an exciting interface explored using #HAXPES 💪
Photograph of the Thames near Windsor from a train bridge
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · Jun 27
Here is a reminder of our excellent speaker lineup for the upcoming meeting of the UK Surface Analysis Forum at the National Physical Laboratory, July 15-16. Registration is open until July 9th at www.uksaf.net?page_id=20

Also don't forget the XPS Workshop on July 14th!