Talk on paper structure

"The Science Behind Paper Structure"
On the science of papermaking, how paper is
understood and how it is made in modern times

A talk by Steve I'Anson

The Historic Reading Room
The John Rylands Library
150 Deansgate
Manchester M3 3EH
Thursday, 25 November 2010
17:30 (1hr)

Cost: Free

How to Find us:

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Attendance is free but please register beforehand by emailing Mark
Furness mark.furness<-at->manchester<.>ac<.>uk

Steve I'Anson is a lecturer in the School of Materials at the
University of Manchester whose speciality area is the manufacture
and properties of paper.  Steve's publications are on the structure
of paper and its properties, related to the three stages of
papermaking: forming, pressing and drying.  He has been at the
University of Manchester, and its predecessor UMIST, since 1980
(except for a period of seven years working in the industry) and he
studied for MSc and PhD degrees during this period. Steve has been
Chairman of the last three Fundamental Research Symposia, the
prestigious paper science conferences held alternately at Oxford and
Cambridge Universities.

Follow-up talks,

    Modern Paper Manufacture" January 2011 (tbc)
    Paper Properties" February 2011 (tbc)


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