Noah Tours Europe Collecting Data on Potential Sea Sensor Materials

May 17, 2025 1 min read

Honours Student Noah Corbett travelled to Europe for a new collaboration.

As part of his training, Honours student Noah Corbett travelled to the Europe to work with local beamline scientists, Todd Martz from UC San Diego and Prof. Roland De Marco on a project examining new materials as potential sea sensors.

(left) End station at the Materials Science Beamline at the Elettra Synchrotron. (right) The Faculty of Mathematics and Physics building at Charles University, Prague.

This work involved a combination of locations and techniques. Using the Elettra Synchrotron Materials Beamline in Trieste the team recorded near edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectra of these materials. Following this, Noah travelled to Charles University in Prague to use their High Resolution Field Emmision Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM) and study the surface characteristics of the materials.

We’re looking forward to the workup of this data and some exciting outputs!

Peter Watson
Peter Watson
Forrest Fellow, Lecturer

A physical chemist interested in instrument design for novel chemical problems and the breadth of spectroscopic methods.