Robert Young (materials scientist)

Robert Young
FRS FREng FInstP
Born Robert Joseph Young
(1948-05-29) 29 May 1948[1]
Alma mater University of Cambridge (MA, PhD)
Awards Leslie Holliday Prize (2011)
Swinburne Medal (2012)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions National Graphene Institute
University of Manchester
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Thesis Deformation mechanism in crystalline polymers (1972)
Website research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/robert.young.html

Robert Joseph Young FRS FREng FInstP (born 29 May 1948)[1] is a British materials scientist specialising in polymers and composites.[2][3] He is a Professor of Polymer Science and Technology at the National Graphene Institute of the University of Manchester.[4]

Education

Young was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he received his Master of Arts[1] and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.[5][6]

Research and career

Young has published over 330 research papers.[6][7][8] He is known for research on the relationships between the structure and mechanical properties of polymers and composites. A particular focus of his work has been the study of how materials such as carbon fibres and spider silk deform at the molecular level. He has also studied carbon-fibre composites, carbon nanotubes and the deformation of graphene — a one-atom thick sheet of carbon.[4]

In his research, Young made a novel use of Raman spectroscopy. In this technique, laser light is shone onto a material and the wavelength and intensity of the resulting scattered light is measured and analysed. The changes in the light relate to changes in bond length between the atoms of the molecules in the material when the material is deformed.[4]

Awards and honours

Young received the 2011 Leslie Holliday Prize and the 2012 Swinburne Medal from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and delivered the Swinburne Lecture in 2013.[4] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013.[4] His certificate of election reads:

References

  1. 1 2 3 Anon (2017). Young, Prof. Robert Joseph. ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who (online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.41403. (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Kinlock, A.J.; Young, R.J. (2014). Fracture Behaviour of Polymers Paperback. Springer. ISBN 978-9401715959.
  3. ↑ Young, Robert (2011). Introduction to polymers. Boca Raton: CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-3929-5.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Anon (2013). "Robert Young". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
  5. ↑ Young, Robert Joseph (1972). Deformation mechanism in crystalline polymers. repository.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 183326728. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.478386.
  6. 1 2 Robert Joseph Young Entry at ORCID
  7. ↑ Robert Young publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  8. ↑ Robert Young publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  9. ↑ Anon (2013). "EC/2013/44: Young, Robert Joseph". royalsociety.org. Royal Society. Retrieved 22 December 2017.

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