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12 - Aeronautical, Mechanical, Chemical and Manufacturing Engineering
Cranfield University
Bone mineral crystallisation kinetics
This work is the first time biological apatite kinetics have been measured along different crystallographic directions. Invite (Greenwood) to join team using beam-time at Diamond Light Source (SM7385). Collaboration with the Natural History Museum, London, for the development of anorganic bone analogues. (Dr Kyriaki Skartsila, k.skartsila@nhm.ac.uk). Research led to follow-on collaboration with Leeds University in the application of a novel approach of XRD analysis during dynamic heating (Dr Tim Comyn, t.p.comyn@leeds.ac.uk). Another output was collaboration with the Science and Technology Facilities Council to investigate material properties of bone types with differing collagen-mineral ratios (Kevin Buckley, kevin.buckley@stfc.ac.uk).