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Intel Award

24th April 2013

Last night Killian Barton (BSc with Nanotechnology (2012)) was awarded the Intel Award for achieving the highest overall score in the DIT Physics program in 2012.

Well done Killian!

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ISO 9001 Reaccreditation
CREST has been recommended for ISO 9001:2008 reaccreditation by Certification Europe. The reaccreditation confirms the centre's continued commitment to operating at the highest standards, providing services to industry and academia alike. Well done to all involved!
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CREST DIT - About Us Our mission is to provide new opportunities for Ireland’s economic growth through superior customer service, excellence in innovation, consultancy, education and training in surface coating and advanced material technologies.

New CREST Members
CREST is happy to welcome Swarna Jaiswal as a new member of staff and Felicia Mutama as a Postgraduate Researcher. Both have worked in CREST previously and are looking forward to continuing to working as part of the ever expanding CREST team.

Recent Publications
Michael Whelan's paper from the European Conference on Nano Films was recently published in Surface Coatings Technology. The work was partly based on a 4th year project with Killian Barton. The paper is titled "Corrosion inhibitors for anodised aluminium".

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0257897213001849

ScienceDirect.com - Surface and Coatings Technology - Corrosion inhibitors Note to users: Corrected proofs are Articles in Press that contain the authors' corrections. Final citation details, e.g., volume/issue number, publication year and page numbers, still need to be added and the text might change before final publication.

Recent Publications
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CREST DIT - News New Review Article from CREST CREST (Dr. Suresh Pillai) and the School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (Professor Declan McCormack) in collaboration with Trinity College (Professor John M. Kelly) and Waterford Institute of Technology (Dr. Ramesh Raghavendra) published a new review article…

DIT Dublin Institute of Technology - DIT Scientist to deliver keynote in China DIT Scientist to deliver keynote in China

CREST Researchers win DIT Inventors Competition
20th June 2012
The CREST team of Craig Hicks, Gráinne Hargaden, John Colreavy and Brendan Duffy were this years winners of the DIT Inventors Competition.
Details on the award and the Innovation Day can be found here in the DIT Hothouse website.

6th June 2012: The Minister for Research and Innovation, Sean Sherlock TD, will officially open a major DIT Research and Innovation Showcase, taking place on campus in Aungier Street, Dublin 1 on Tuesday 19 June 2012, 3pm to 7pm

The IASCCO Conference (Henkel) held last week in the University of Limerick was a great success with two CREST scientists presenting their innovative research to the audience. Take a look at the photos posted.

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Henkel RD&E Staff Photos_21/5/2012
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CREST's Centre Director Dr. John Colreavy will be leaving CREST as his secondment from Enterprise Ireland comes to an end in June 2012. John came to DIT from Enterprise Ireland in 2003 and under his stewardship CREST has built an excellent reputation for its research activity and output, and its engagement and support of industry. Dr. Colreavy has received numerous awards for his commercialisation activities including the ‘Enterprise Ireland Research Commercialisation National Award’. Dr. Colreavy has secured over €6M in funding since 2004, with €1M funding coming directly from industries. Dr. Colreavy, with his colleagues in CREST, has transferred sixteen commercial licenses to industry, filed three patents and launched a spin-out business (Radical Coatings) in December 2010. He was the sole Irish research exhibitor invited to the first EU Innovation Convention in Brussels in 2011.
DIT and Enterprise Ireland have instituted a transition agreement that ensures the continued rapid growth of the Centre and the post of Director of CREST will be advertised internally and externally in the coming weeks. Congratulations John on your achievements in CREST over the last 9 years and we wish you every success for the future.

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