{"id":1315,"date":"2016-02-01T14:10:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T14:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/uommaterialsblog\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2016-02-01T14:11:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T14:11:52","slug":"mondaymaterials-episode-16-dr-sarah-haigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/uommaterialsblog\/mondaymaterials-episode-16-dr-sarah-haigh\/","title":{"rendered":"#MondayMaterials Episode 16 – Dr Sarah Haigh"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sarah looking particularly happy while sitting at her microscope!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Can you believe it? Episode 16 of #MondayMaterials<\/a> is here already! And after fifteen previous episodes, I finally get the chance to talk to Dr Sarah Haigh<\/a>, somebody who was recommended to me by our Episode 1<\/a> interviewee.<\/p>\n

It took a while to get this interview into both our calendars, but I can tell you now that is was well worth the wait. Sarah is doing some fascinating and important research, but I\u2019ll let you find out more about that from her rather than me:<\/p>\n

Hi Sarah \u2013 thanks for speaking to us. Can you start by describing your research, for the layman, in ten sentences or less?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

So I\u2019m an electron microscopist<\/a> and that means that use electrons to interrogate the atomic structure of materials, particularly at very high resolutions.<\/p>\n

So we\u2019re looking at perhaps looking for solute atoms at a grain boundary to understand what makes that particular alloy really strong or not strong enough, or what is happening to make it corrode. Or we look at nanoparticles and try to understand why a single atom thick coating changes their catalytic properties by such a huge amount.<\/p>\n

And how can your research benefit the general public?<\/strong><\/h3>\n