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On November 18th and 19th scientific researchers and leading professionals from the automotive, oil and petrochemical industries came together for a conference at Diamond. The event focused on the future of world transport, discussing the challenges faced by the industry and highlighting the cutting edge science which is already providing insights and solutions to address the obstacles to greener transportation and future energy production.
During the ICAR meeting, Nikolaos Baimpas, doctoral student in the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford was presented with the inaugural Infineum-Diamond prize for Innovative Automotive Research using Synchrotron Light.
[i] “A feasibility study of dynamic stress analysis inside a running internal combustion engine using synchrotron X-ray beams” by Nikolaos Baimpas, Michael Drakopoulos, Thomas Connolley, Xu Song, Costas Pandazaras and Alexander M. Korsunsky. J. Synchrotron Rad. (2013). 20, 316-323
doi:10.1107/S0909049513000885
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