Robert Young (materials scientist)

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Robert Young
FRS FREng FInstP FIMMM
Born
Robert Joseph Young

(1948-05-29) 29 May 1948 (age 75)[1]
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (MA, PhD)
AwardsLeslie Holliday Prize (2011)
Swinburne Medal (2012)
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsNational Graphene Institute
University of Manchester
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
ThesisDeformation mechanism in crystalline polymers (1972)
Websiteresearch.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 which have been cited over 37,000 times, leading to a h-index of 91.

carbon-fibre composites, carbon nanotubes and the deformation of graphene — a one-atom thick sheet of carbon.[4] Among his work on polymer-graphene composites, one important result elucidated for the first time the relationship between composite reinforcement and matrix modulus.[9]

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]

He has also co-authored the widely used textbook: Introduction to Polymers.[10]

Awards and honours

Young received the 2011 Leslie Holliday Prize and the 2012 Swinburne Medal from the

semi-crystalline polymers and identified new toughening mechanisms. He subsequently pioneered the use of Raman spectroscopy to study deformation micromechanics in fibres at the molecular level. He has demonstrated that this approach can be extended to the deformation of carbon-nanotubes and graphene nano-composites and has proven that continuum mechanics is still applicable at the nano-scale[11]

References

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    doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.41403. Retrieved 2017-12-17. (Subscription or UK public library membership
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  2. ISBN 978-9401715959
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  3. ISBN 978-0-8493-3929-5
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  4. ^ a b c d e 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.478386
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    ORCID 0000-0001-6073-9489
  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. doi:10.1016/j.compscitech.2017.11.007
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  10. ISBN 9781439894156
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  11. ^ Anon (2013). "EC/2013/44: Young, Robert Joseph". royalsociety.org. Royal Society. Retrieved 22 December 2017.

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