Overall goal of the TCMR

To foster research at Trent that will lead to an improved understanding of the properties of materials of potential benefit to industry, and the training of highly qualified personnel in these areas.

To do this, the Centre brings together Trent faculty with research interests in applied materials research, in order to improve the communications and cross-fertilization of research among the faculty and their graduate students.

For an introduction to our members and a demonstration of their research interests, click here.

Faculty and research interests

Bill Atkinson (Physics)
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Computational and theoretical models of high temperature superconductors.

Errol Lewars (Chemistry)
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Structure of the polymers of small molecules.

Suresh Narine (Physics & Astronomy and Chemistry)
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Materials Science, Organic and Organo-metallic modification of natural lipids, Physics and Chemistry of Biomaterials, Physics of Crystallization and Phase Change.

Mark Parnis (Chemistry)
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Gas-phase transition metal cluster reaction kinetics, and matrix-isolation photochemistry and spectroscopy.

Ralph Shiell (Physics)
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Laser-matter interactions, coherent spectroscopy and quantum control.

Alan Slavin (Physics)
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Growth mechanisms of ultrathin metal films and oxides

Igor Svishchev (Chemistry)
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Development of supercritical water oxidation technology and related materials research.

Andrew Vreugenhil (Chemistry)
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Development and characterization of hybrid organic-inorganic materials for applications in coatings nanoparticle encapsulation and interface modification.

Rachel Wortis (Physics)
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Theory of high-temperature superconductivity