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SSW hosts a one-day workshop on green-engineering of polymer surfaces & devices

Time: February 5 (Friday), 2010
Venue: Rm 123, P&A Building, UWO, London, Ontario

Since late 2007, Professors Leo Lau, Jun Yang, Beth Gillies and H.Y. Nie have collaborated with researchers of LANXESS on developing new green chemistry and engineering methods for the fabrication of high-value-added polymer surface and devices, with funding supports from OCE, LANXESS and NSERC. In this workshop, the team will give an overview of these works, together with talks and posters in the Research Showcase Event of UWO. Several invited speakers, including Professor David Graves from UC Berkeley, Dr. Dolf Landheer from the Institute of Microstructural Sciences (NRC), Professor Tricia Carmichael from U of Windsor, and Professors John de Bruyn and Liying Jiang from UWO, are active in research relevant to these works of the LANXESS-UWO team. They will review their relevant activities in this workshop which is also a forum for planning future research collaboration. The participation of Professor Graves in this workshop is sponsored by the Canada-California Strategic Innovation Partnership Program.

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Getting to the Root of Coating Problems

Read SSW's latest article in the winter edition of ROIMagazine.
In this time of challenges and opportunities, it is important for manufacturing companies to make the best use of all of their resources. In the world of coatings and thin films, it is essential to have a defect-free product. Surface Science Western's highly skilled team of research scientists and engineers provides resources to industry to determine root causes of a wide variety of coating-related problems and issues.
Read the full article at Report on Industry Magazine (page 23).

Are Your Analytical Costs Tax Deductible?

Through the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax incentive program your Canadian controlled private company could potentially recover a significant portion of its analytical costs.

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17th International Conference on Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry

Surface Science Western and The University of Western Ontario are proud to be a part of the joint organizing team (Dr. Leo Lau - Conference Co-Chair) of the 17th International Conference on Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS XVII) to be held in Toro nto, Ontario, September 13th to 17th, 2009. The biennial International SIMS Conference is the premier international forum for reporting new results and sharing practical information about SIMS and its related techniques as well as providing an informal atmosphere to encourage extended discussions.
For more details see the conference website.