Environmental Materials Characterisation
Dr Matthew Power, Environmental Materials Characterisation Business Fellow offers highly specialised technical and professional expertise in the field of environmental materials characterisation. Matthew is a leading expert in the use of QEMSCAN, the flagship instrument of the Camborne School of Mines' new £1.5 million microbeam analytical facility. The QEMSCAN is a highly sophisticated computer controlled electron scanning microscope which analyses soil dust and other inorganic samples with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Initially developed for the mineral processing sector, the QEMSCAN has proven so robust and versatile that it can be used to characterise virtually any inorganic material. Applications include:
- Forensic Science
- Finger-printing soils, allowing an evidential link to be made between a suspect and a crime scene
- Environmental monitoring
- Characterising airborne particulates
- Mineralogical characterisation of contaminated land
- Minerals engineering
- Process design and control
- Characterisation of geological materials