Radiation Assisted Materials Performance Science (RAMPS)
This site contains information about J. C. Wren's Research Group, including events, research interests, members and pictures. Please take a look around and learn about our group. Enjoy!
Our research interests include many topics relating to Materials Performance and Radiation. We study many diverse systems, to obtain information on chemistry, reaction kinetics and corrosion, for systems exposed to radiation. One such applied system is a CANDU reactors, like the one located at Pt. Lepreau, Canada (left)and in Zhejiang, China (right) as shown in the above pictures.
Our areas of focus can be roughly split into 3 components Radiation Related Electrochemistry & Corrosion, Radiation Related Aqueous and Colloid Chemistry and Radiation Effects on Biphasic Separation.
Events
- Kevin is currently attached with Dr. Jei-Won Yeon's research group at KAERI (Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute) in Daejeon, S. Korea for a couple of months. He will carry out some experiments concerning the corrosion behaviour of carbon steel under high temperature and pressure using a pressurized loop system. Kevin has created his own blog to keep us updated with his life over there, if you interested to know about Daejeon city from Kevin’s prospective please click here
- Susan visited BNL (US) and she collaborated with Jim Wishart using the picosecond Laser-Electron Accelerator Facility. She attempted to observe the solvated electron in various ionic liquids with increased contact time with water (Jan. 2012)
