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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Time is running out to register for the next UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at Ulster University (Belfast Campus), July 1-2, hosted by Amir Farokh Payam. You have until Tuesday June 23rd to register if you wish to attend the conference banquet via our website at www.uksaf.net

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

We are gearing up for our meeting at Ulster University and are pleased to announce the following exhibitors: CN Tech ScientaOmicron SPECS Group Thermo Fisher Scientific @thermofishersci.bsky.social VSM Instruments ionTOF Ionoptika Blue Scientific Park Systems Zurich Instruments Kratos Analytical

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Our next meeting will be at Ulster University (Belfast Campus), provisionally July 1-2. Please stay tuned to this account and the UKSAF website for updates!

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Our final session features Robin Simpson presenting on femtosecond laser ablation XPS and Shaoliang Guan speaking on transition metal dichalcogenides.

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Our third session focused on opportunities for students & research technical professionals through UKSAF, @uk-itss.bsky.social & the NTPMI. Many thanks to Kay Doncom & Polly Greensmith for their talks. The session wrapped up with Keith Butler from UCL on AI methods for materials discovery.

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Our second session sees Karen Syres from the University of Lancashire talking on ionic liquid modified perovskites, followed by Daniel Lee from the University of Manchester describing work using NMR for surface analysis.

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Our first session of the day sees Geoff Thornton from UCL speaking on electrolyte interfaces with oxide surfaces, followed by Johannes Lischner from Imperial College with a talk on modelling core electron binding energies at metal oxide surfaces.

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Welcome to the delegates attending our 2026 Winter Meeting at UCL. David Morgan and @robertpalgrave.bsky.social have opened the meeting and we look forward to an enjoyable day of surface science

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

We are pleased to confirm another speaker for the UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at UCL on January 7th. Geoff Thornton will be presenting his group's work on "Structure of electrolyte interfaces with oxide surfaces" at the conference. Meeting registration: www.uksaf.net

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

We are pleased to have Keith Butler (UCL) speaking at the next UKSAF meeting. His research uses data-driven methods & quantum mechanics calculations to design new materials & help accelerate the experimental characterisation of materials. Registration: www.uksaf.net?page_id=20

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Hiden Analytical are the next vendor to be confirmed in the conference exhibition for the UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at UCL on January 7th, taking us to 10 vendors! Meeting registration: www.uksaf.net?page_id=20 Vendor space reservations: warwick.ac.uk/research/rtp...

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

In the build up to the next UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting on January 7th at UCL, we are pleased to confirm Scienta Omicron as a vendor in our conference exhibition. Meeting registration: www.uksaf.net?page_id=20 Vendor space reservations: warwick.ac.uk/research/rtp...

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Ionoptika Ltd will be joining the vendor exhibition at the upcoming UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at UCL on January 7th! Meeting registration: www.uksaf.net?page_id=20 Exhibition space reservations: warwick.ac.uk/research/rtp...

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Warwick Photoemission RTP @warwickxps.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Today we are pleased to confirm Blue Scientific as a vendor for the upcoming UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at UCL on January 7th. Meeting registration: www.uksaf.net?page_id=20 Vendor space registration: warwick.ac.uk/research/rtp...

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

We are pleased to announce a special session at the next UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting focusing on opportunities for students and technical professionals. Meeting registration is open at www.uksaf.net?page_id=20

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

The next vendor to be confirmed for the upcoming UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at UCL in January is CN Technical Services Ltd. You can register for this meeting at www.uksaf.net?page_id=20 , while vendor space can be reserved at warwick.ac.uk/research/rtp...

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

We are pleased to confirm @thermofisher to the exhibition lineup at the upcoming UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at UCL on January 7th Meeting registration: www.uksaf.net?page_id=20 Space is still available for additional exhibitors, please register via warwick.ac.uk/research/rtp...

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

We are delighted to confirm Karen Syres from the University of Lancashire as a speaker at the UKSAF meeting at UCL on January 7th. Karen will be presenting her work on "Ionic liquid-modified perovskite films for enhanced solar cell stability" Meeting registration is open at www.uksaf.net?page_id=20

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Today we are pleased to announce the support of VSM Instruments as a vendor at the upcoming UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at UCL on January 7th, 2026. Meeting registration: www.uksaf.net?page_id=20

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The third vendor confirmed for the upcoming UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at UCL on January 7th is Kratos Analytical Ltd. You can visit them in our exhibition by registering for the meeting at www.uksaf.net?page_id=20 To browse their surface analysis product range, please visit www.kratos.com

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Our next vendor announcement for the 2026 Winter Meeting of the UK Surface Analysis Forum is Scientific Analysis Instruments (SAI). You will be able to visit them at our meeting by registering for you place at www.uksaf.net?page_id=20

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

We are pleased to confirm Johannes Lischner from the Department of Materials at Imperial College London as a speaker at the UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at UCL on January 7th.

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

We are pleased to confirm Johannes Lischner from the Department of Materials at Imperial College London as a speaker at the UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at UCL on January 7th.

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

The 2026 Winter Meeting of the UK Surface Analysis Forum is in just 5 weeks! We are pleased to have @djscientificuk.bsky.social as a vendor supporting the meeting! They work with some of the best researchers & instrumentation manufacturers to offer the very best sales, service & consultancy support.

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

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 · 16/07/2025

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 · 16/07/2025

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 · 16/07/2025

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 · 16/07/2025

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 · 16/07/2025

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 · 16/07/2025

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 · 16/07/2025

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 · 16/07/2025

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 · 16/07/2025

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 · 16/07/2025

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 · 16/07/2025

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 · 15/07/2025

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 · 15/07/2025

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 · 15/07/2025

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 · 15/07/2025

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 · 15/07/2025

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 · 15/07/2025

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 · 15/07/2025

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 · 15/07/2025

Our meeting is underway with introductions from David Morgan and Alex Shard!

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

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 · 15/07/2025

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 · 27/06/2025

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!

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

We are pleased to announce Hiden Analytical as a silver sponsor of the upcoming meeting of the UK Surface Analysis Forum at NPL in July.

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Today we are pleased to announce two more silver sponsors for the upcoming meeting of the UK Surface Analysis Forum in July. First up, Physical Electronics will be showcasing their XPS, HAXPES, TOF-SIMS and Scanning Auger instruments in conjunction with CN Tech

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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Our next Silver Sponsor for the upcoming UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at NPL in July is CN Technical Services Ltd. They are the UK suppliers for Prevac, Coxem Co., Ltd, Physical Electronics and more.

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