Melanie Britton – Network — University of Birmingham

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Melanie Britton’s research group is a leader in developing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to visualise chemistry and chemical processes directly. They have used MRI to image chemical patterns in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, which allows better understand of the formation of waves and patterns found in slime mould, cell suspensions, nerve axons and cardiac tissues, as well as other autocatalytic chemical reactions. MRI can also visualise flow, and using this method they have been able to better understand how chemistry couples with flow in chemical and biological pattern formation, as well as in chemical reactors. Most recently the group have shown that MRI can be used to probe the composition and structural changes in an electrolyte solution adjacent to a reactive metal during corrosion. These novel experiments demonstrate the enormous potential for MRI to study other electrochemical systems, such as metal-air batteries or fuel cells.

Research activity per year

Engineering and Physical Sciences

The University of Birmingham

Organisational unit: College

67 shared research output

The University of Birmingham

Organisational unit: University

16 shared research output

Chemical Engineering

Engineering and Physical Sciences

Organisational unit: School

9 shared research output

Medical and Dental Sciences

The University of Birmingham

Organisational unit: College

8 shared research output

Cancer and Genomic Sciences

Medical and Dental Sciences

Organisational unit: School

5 shared research output

Metallurgy and Materials

Engineering and Physical Sciences

Organisational unit: School

4 shared research output

Mechanical Engineering

Organisational unit: Department

3 shared research output

Engineering

Engineering and Physical Sciences

Organisational unit: School

3 shared research output

Clinical Sciences

Medical and Dental Sciences

Organisational unit: School

1 shared research output

Biosciences

Life and Environmental Sciences

Organisational unit: School

1 shared research output

Healthcare Technologies Institute

Engineering and Physical Sciences

Organisational unit: Institute

1 shared research output

Life and Environmental Sciences

The University of Birmingham

Organisational unit: College

1 shared research output

Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage

Chemical Engineering, Birmingham Energy Institute

Organisational unit: Centre

1 shared research output

Cardiovascular Sciences

Medical and Dental Sciences

Organisational unit: School

1 shared research output

Microbiology and Infection

Medical and Dental Sciences

Organisational unit: School

1 shared research output

Mathematics

Engineering and Physical Sciences

Organisational unit: School

1 shared research output

Birmingham Energy Institute

Chemical Engineering

Organisational unit: Department

1 shared research output

Birmingham Medical School

Clinical Sciences

Organisational unit: Department

1 shared research output

University of Birmingham

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

5 shared research output

Procter & Gamble Brussels Innovation Center

External organisation: Unknown

3 shared research output

University of Leeds

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

3 shared research output

Massey University

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

2 shared research output

Procter and Gamble Brussels Innovation Center

External organisation: Private Company

2 shared research output

Keele University

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

2 shared research output

Procter & Gamble Company, Newcastle Innovation Center

External organisation: Unknown

2 shared research output

University of Leicester

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

1 shared research output

University of New Brunswick

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

1 shared research output

Monash University

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

1 shared research output

Procter & Gamble Company

External organisation: Unknown

1 shared research output

Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

1 shared research output

Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

1 shared research output

Ghent University

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

1 shared research output

Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing

External organisation: Unknown

1 shared research output

University of Nottingham

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

1 shared research output

Procter and Gamble

External organisation: Unknown

1 shared research output

Trier University of Applied Sciences

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

1 shared research output

Kyushu University

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

1 shared research output

National Institute for Materials Science

External organisation: Unknown

1 shared research output

Diamond Light Source

External organisation: Industry

1 shared research output

Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland

External organisation: No HESA Fund Source

1 shared research output

Institut Laue-Langevin

External organisation: Unknown

1 shared research output

Deakin University

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

1 shared research output

University of Durham

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

1 shared research output

Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE)

External organisation: Other

1 shared research output