Sarah Haigh

Sarah Jane Haigh is a Professor in the School of Materials at the University of Manchester.[1][3] She investigates nanomaterials using transmission electron microscopy, including two-dimensional materials such as graphene.

Sarah Haigh
Haigh at electron microscope in 2015
Born
Sarah Jane Haigh
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
AwardsIOM3 Silver Medal (2013)
IOM3 Rosenhain Medal (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsMaterial Science
Electron microscopy
2D materials
nanoparticles[1]
InstitutionsJeol
University of Manchester
ThesisSuper Resolution Tilt Series Exit Wave Restoration from Aberration Corrected Images (2007)
Doctoral advisorAngus Kirkland[2]
Websitewww.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/sarah.haigh.html

Early life and education

Haigh studied materials science at the University of Oxford, where she was a member of St Anne's College, Oxford.[4] During her undergraduate studies she worked at the aluminium company Rio Tinto Alcan.[2] She used nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry to study titanium doped magnesium diboride during her undergraduate studies.[5] She won the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) Prize for Best Overall Performance in Parts I and II.[4] Whilst an undergraduate, at the UK 2004 Materials Congress, Haigh won the best poster award.[6] Haigh won the Morgan Crucible Award for the best Materials student in the UK.[6]

Haigh earned her Doctor of Philosophy degree[2] focussing on the development of exit wave restoration for high resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), working under the supervision of Angus Kirkland. She won the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers Prize for Best Poster in 2007.[4] She visited JEOL in Japan to test instruments before installing them in Oxford.[5]

Research and career

After completing her PhD in 2008, Haigh worked as an application specialist for JEOL and spent two years working with the Nelson Mandela University in the Centre for High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy.[5] She co-edited Nannocharacterisation with Kirkland in 2014.[7]

A two-dimensional graphene sheet

Haigh joined the University of Manchester in 2010.[5][2] Within two weeks she had put out a tender for a TEM, and secured one that allowed her to do high sensitivity Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy.[5] She is interested in electron tomography and elemental imaging of nanomaterials.[5] She has also investigated the changes that occur during wet chemical processes.[5]

Working at the University of Manchester, Haigh became interested in graphene and other 2D materials. She is a member of the National Graphene Institute.[8] Haigh has used TEM to study graphene-boron nitride heterostructures and found that hydrocarbons group in isolated pockets.[5] She used focused ion beam TEM to reveal that graphene layers within electronic devices have perfect alignment.[9] Haigh has discussed 2D materials on BBC Radio 4.[3] She won the 2013 IOM3 Silver Medal for her research and education activities.[10] She used a graphene 'petri dish' to help image nanomaterials, using graphene-boron nitride liquid crystal cells.[11] She demonstrated that graphene-oxide membranes could be used as a sieve to remove the salt from seawater.[12][13] In 2018 her group identified a new bending behaviour in 2D Materials, that folds were delocalised over several atoms.[14][15] She demonstrated that catalytic materials could be used to recover energy from waste water.[10]

Haigh was appointed at the University of Manchester as a lecturer in 2010, and in 2015 Haigh was promoted to Reader.[5] In 2015, Haigh was quoted saying "I was promoted to Reader last year and I'd like to see myself as a Professor within the next five to ten years"[5] and in 2018 Haigh was promoted to Professor (i.e. a Personal Chair).[16][17]

She is a member of the committee of the Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers, and was elected to join as a freeman in 2009.[18] She serves on the advisory board of the EPSRC SuperSTEM laboratory in Daresbury.[19] She won the 2017 Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Rosenhain Medal.[4]

Haigh was Chair of the Institute of Physics EMAG group (2016–2018) and EMAG Honorary Secretary and Treasurer (2014–2016), a member of council for the RMS (2014–2018).[20]

Awards and honours

In 2018 she applied for Freedom of the City of Manchester.[21] Her awards and honours include:

References
  1. Sarah Haigh publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. Haigh, Sarah Jane (2007). Super Resolution Tilt Series Exit Wave Restoration from Aberration Corrected Images. jisc.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 276566193. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.491504.
  3. ORCID 0000-0001-5509-6706
  4. "Student Prizes Oxford Materials". www.materials.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  5. "Sarah Haigh: Fast track to success | Microscopy and Analysis". microscopy-analysis.com. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  6. "Departmental News and Press Articles from before 2010 Oxford Materials". www.materials.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  7. Smith, David J.; Pennycook, S. J.; Castell, Martin; Brydson, Rik; Dunin-Borkowski, Rafal; Midgley, Paul; Bell, D.; O'Brien, Paul (2014). Kirkland, Angus I.; Haigh, Sarah J. (eds.). Nanocharacterisation (2nd New ed.). Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry. doi:10.1039/9781847557926. ISBN 9781849738057.
  8. "Professor Sarah Haigh - Graphene - The University of Manchester". www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  9. Shead, Sam (30 July 2012). "Technique confirms graphene can be used in computer chips". The Engineer. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  10. "Award winners 2013 | IOM3". www.iom3.org. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  11. Kelly, Daniel J.; Zhou, Mingwei; Clark, Nick; Hamer, Matthew J.; Lewis, Edward A.; Rakowski, Alexander M.; Haigh, Sarah J.; Gorbachev, Roman V. (2018). "Nanometer Resolution Elemental Mapping in Graphene-Based TEM Liquid Cells". Nano Letters. 18 (2): 1168–1174. arXiv:1710.06685. Bibcode:2018NanoL..18.1168K. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b04713. ISSN 1530-6984. PMC 5821409. PMID 29323499.
  12. "Graphene sieve turns seawater into drinking water". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  13. Nair, Rahul R.; Geim, Andre K.; Carbone, Paola; Grigorieva, Irina V.; Haigh, Sarah J.; Prestat, Eric; Dix, James; Cherian, Christie T.; Su, Yang (2001). "Tunable sieving of ions using graphene oxide membranes". Nature Nanotechnology. 12 (6): 546–550. arXiv:1701.05519. doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.21. ISSN 1748-3395. PMID 28369049. S2CID 115247. closed access
  14. "Understanding origami in 2-D materials". phys.org. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  15. Haigh, S. J.; Young, R. J.; Gorbachev, R. V.; Ding, F.; Auton, G.; Kozikov, A.; Gholinia, A.; Zhao, W.; Li, Z. (2018). "Anomalous twin boundaries in two dimensional materials". Nature Communications. 9 (1): 3597. arXiv:1809.00158. Bibcode:2018NatCo...9.3597R. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06074-8. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 6125487. PMID 30185818.
  16. "Prof Sarah Haigh". Fusion CDT. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  17. "Becoming a material science researcher to find things that no-one else has seen before - Dr. Sarah Haigh, Reader in Materials Characterisation at the University of Manchester". Womanthology. 10 January 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  18. "BBC World Service - The Forum, Adventures in 2D: Graphene and Beyond". BBC. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  19. "Uncovering atomic secrets - People". sites.google.com. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  20. "Prof Sarah Haigh | The University of Manchester". www.research.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  21. "Agenda item - Applications for Freedom of the City". democracy.cityoflondon.gov.uk. 20 March 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
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