Introduction

The Discussion meeting was organised by the RSC Faraday Division.

The objective of the meeting was to bring together researchers from a wide range of scientific communities, facilitating discussion on the broad ranging nature, spectroscopy and application of microparticles.

Researchers attended from academic institutions, industry, the Environment Agency, and national laboratories, and with communities as diverse as the atmospheric chemistry and physics, dusty plasma, optical physics, physical chemistry, and analytical sciences. With this mix of physicists, chemists and engineers, discussions were lively and informed with approaching 500 questions and comments recorded.

To view the published volume resulting from the discussion please see the journal link on this page.

Discussion topics

• Spectroscopic Techniques
• Dusty Plasmas and X-Ray Characterisation
• Atmospheric Aerosols
• Particle Manipulation and Characterisation  

Scientific Committee

Dr Jonathan P Reid (Chair) (University of Bristol, UK)

Dr Paul Davies (University of Cambridge, UK)

Dr Christian George (Laboratoire d'Application de la Chimie à l'Environnement (LACE), France)

Professor John Goree (University of Iowa, USA)

Professor Paul Kaye (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

Dr David McGloin (University of St Andrews, UK)

Co-sponsor

We are grateful to the Institute of Physics for their co-sponsorship support at FD137.

Sponsors

We would like to thank the Bristol Colloid Centre at the University of Bristol and Elliot Scientific for their generous support at the meeting.