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Latest Innovations in Non-destructive 3D X-ray Microscopy for the Modern Analytical Laboratory

Live Seminar & Workshop at Monash University Clayton Campus

Friday, 14. February 2025

This seminar will explore the emerging research applications, along with underlying technology and methodology, stemming from 3D X-ray microscopy (XRM). As a non-destructive characterisation method, XRM allows us to uniquely evaluate the internal structures of our samples and specimens at sub-micron resolution, covering multiple contrast mechanisms and length scales. Moreover, 4D investigation of structures via in-situ or ex-situ repeated imaging provides new opportunities for understanding materials evolution and degradation processes, and correlative workflows linking XRM with other modalities such as SEM, FIB-SEM, or APT offer the chance to easily span across a range of length scales. Several examples will be presented, emphasising the latest developments and an outlook towards the future.

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Agenda

Key Learnings

Join us to learn about:

How X-ray microscopy drives advances in Materials Science and Life Science, including non-destructive views of deeply buried features, compositional contrast for studying challenging materials, and the ability to maintain Resolution at a Distance for in-situ imaging.
How X-ray microscopy can be integrated into broader workflows to streamline the collection of meaningful data and enhance research efficiency.
Learn about available equipment at the Monash X-ray Platform (MXP)

Event Details

Guest Speakers: Prof. Phil Withers (University of Manchester) and Prof. Alistair Evans (Monash University)

Date: Friday, 14 February 2025
Time: 9.30AM - 2.00PM
Location: New Horizons Building, Monash University (Clayton Campus)
Room: G29-30

Email for enquiries: microinfo.au@zeiss.com

	Agenda
9.30AM - 11.00AM	Seminar Getting inside materials science through X-ray CT by Prof. Phil Withers This talk takes look at the role that X-ray microscopy and computed tomography can play in understanding manufacturing-microstructure-property relationships in materials science. Both 3D imaging and time-resolved imaging of behaviours. Although focusing primarily on absorption contrast imaging, the talk will also discuss how the Zeiss Micro CT systems can deliver some phase contrast to help resolve low contrast features. It will include both hard and soft materials covering materials science topics as diverse as the behaviour of lithium batteries, carbon fibre composites, corrosion, thermal barrier coatings, pharmaceuticals, self healing materials, flow through porous materials and the pupation of butterflies. It will also consider correlative tomography where X-ray CT is linked to electron microscopy in multiscale workflows From Embryos to Fossils: 3D CT Imaging at the Monash X-ray CT Facilities by Prof. Alistair Evans TBA
11.00 AM - 12.00PM	Monash X-ray Platform (MXP) Tour
1.00PM - 2.00PM	Hands-on session on ZEISS Xradia 520 Versa X-ray microscope

Speaker Luna Zhang

Luna Zhang holds a Master of Science in Material Science and Engineering from the National University of Singapore, specializing in nanomaterials. With a strong background in technology, Luna has worked as a Failure Analysis Engineer at Micron Technology. Currently, she is an APAC X-ray Microscope Product Application Sales Specialist, where she leverages her technical expertise to drive product applications covering various topics across the Asia-Pacific region.

Guest Speaker Prof. Phil Withers University of Manchester

Philip Withers read Natural Sciences (82-85) at Cambridge before doing a PhD in metal matrix composites (85-89) and then becoming a lecturer there (89). He then took up a Chair at the University of Manchester (98). He became the inaugural Director of the $100m bp International Centre for Advanced Materials in (2012). In 2016 he helped to set up the Royce Institute for Advanced Materials becoming its first Chief Scientist. The Royce is a national institute that brings together capabilities at the Universities of Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Liverpool, Cambridge, Oxford, Strathclyde, Cranfield and Imperial College as well as the National Nuclear Labs, and the UK Atomic Energy Authority at Culham.

He is the first Regius Professor of Materials and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Indian National Science Academy. He is currently establishing the Defence Materials Centre of Excellence which is hosted by the Royce and brings together 24 different partners, being its Interim Director.

His research focuses on imaging, modelling and understanding the behaviour of materials in real time and 3D often in situ under demanding environments. To this end he has pioneered the use of synchrotron and lab. X-ray CT to and combined this with information from electron and neutron beams to shine a light on their behaviour. In 2008 he set up the Henry Moseley X-ray Imaging Facility. This was awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize in 2014 for innovation, impact and excellence. It is a world-leading suite of X-ray imaging systems for academic and applied research, which in 2020 became the lead partner the National Research Facility in Lab. X-ray CT.

Guest Speaker Prof. Alistair Evans Monash University

Professor Alistair Evans is a zoologist, evo-devo biologist and paleobiologist. His expertise is in the evolution, function and development of mammalian teeth, ranging from rodents to hominins, working on questions involving biomechanics, developmental biology and evolutionary biology. He has 25 years of experience in 3D imaging across many modalities, scanning mammal embryos, extinct Tasmanian tigers and giant fossil whales. Alistair has been the co-director of the Monash X-ray CT facility since 2013 and has run experiments at synchrotrons including SPring-8 in Japan and the Australian Synchrotron.

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