Thermal Methods Group

Topics & Programme
 

Latest news from the TMG - Mar 2025

Our final agenda for TAC 2025 has been confirmed and we are looking forwards to hearing from an excellent range of talks from:

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Monday 14th April 2025

• ​Plenary Lecture - Thermal behavior and application of carbon nanostructures, Imre Szilágyi, University of Miskolc, Hungary.​

• TMG - the Early Days – Ted Charsley, University of Huddersfield, UK.​

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• Leveraging Thermal Analysis for the Development of 3D-Printed Personalized Medicine at the Point of Care – Sheng Qi, University of East Anglia, UK.

• Thermal analysis of 3D printed pharmaceuticals: from understanding to improving the printing process – Asma Buanz, University of Greenwich, UK.

• Solubility mapping using thermal analysis combined with advanced imaging for drug delivery applications – Hisham Al-Obaidi, University of Reading, UK.

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• Life cycle of an F1 car – The role of thermal analysis – Maria Brooks, Williams F1 racing Team, UK.

• Mechanical and Thermal properties of starch-based snack precursors – William MacNaughtan, University of Nottingham, UK.

• Fifty years of Calorimetry at the University of Surrey – Angela Danil de Namor, University of Surrey, UK.

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Tuesday 15th April 2025

• ​Comparison of drying technologies for the preparation of mucosal vaccines against the ESKAPE pathogens to combat AMR – Vicky Kett, Queen’s University Belfast, UK. 

• Combining thermal analysis with diffraction to understand chemical reactivity in a complex cocrystal system of historical importance - Okba Al Rahal, University of Birmingham, UK.

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• Measurement of thermal conductivity of carbon fibres using direct and indirect method - Jamin Daniel Vincent, NPL, UK.

• Tailoring Ba2+ doping in Sr1-xBaxFeO3-δ oxygen carriers for tuneable chemical looping ethylene epoxidation - Xiaoyu Dai, University of Cambridge, UK.

• The Thermal Behaviour of Type 1 Collagen Used in Food Gels - Neve Lavery, Devro, UK.

• Thermal Analysis Applied to Forensic Entomology – Fern Johnson, University of Huddersfield, UK.

• Thermal Fractionation of PAEKs: Insights into Crystallisation and Domain Formation Using Successive Self-nucleation and Annealing – Monis Luqman Mohammed, University of Exeter, UK.

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• TGA/DSC combined with FTIR/MS and DSC combined with microscopy of Ammonium Nitrate with Polyhalite – Ellen la Haye, TNO, Netherlands.

• HFC Studies of energetic materials - Amanda Catterall, BAE, UK.

• An Investigation into PETN Acidity using Heat Flow Calorimetry – Alan Macdonald, AWE, UK.

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Wednesday 16th April 2025

• Use of synchronous XRD with DSC to characterise polymorphic transitions – Simon Gaisford, UCL, UK.

• Localised Thermal Analysis – Mike Reading, Cyversa, UK.

• Reports from the edge of thermal analysis: Stability studies associated with drone delivered healthcare – Paul Royall, King’s College London, UK.

• Optimising HTE polymorph and salt screening of pharmaceutical compounds using SDT650 Thermal Analyser - Indigo Dean, Pharmaron UK.

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• High Temperature Thermomicroscopy of Inorganic Materials – Gage Ashton, University of Huddersfield, UK.

• Thermal analysis to identify and address process safety hazards in development and production of catalysts – Lockhart Horsburgh, Johnson Matthey PLC, UK.

• Was Boris Johnson right? (or how economic is your kettle?) – Duncan Price, Edwards Vacuum, UK.