Professor James Hay

School of Metallurgy and Materials
Professor in Polymer Chemistry

Contact details

Telephone: (+44) (0) 121 414 4544
Fax: (+44) (0) 121 414 7468
Email: j.n.hay@bham.ac.uk

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Address: School of Metallurgy and Materials
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Professional Development

Fellow, The Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
Chartered Chemist (C.Chem)
Past Editor, Thermochimica Acta
Member, Editorial Board of Polymer
Member, Thermal Methods Group, RSC
Member, Macro Group UK; Polymer Physics Group
Member, The Society of Plastic Engineers

Qualifications

BSc (Chemistry), Glasgow, 1957
PhD (Chemistry), Glasgow, 1960
DSc, Birmingham, 1972

Research

Research Interests

Effects of structure on the mechanical and physical properties of polymers, copolymers, polymer blends and composites
PEM Fuel Cells
Effect of physical ageing in glassy thermoplastics and morphology in partially crystalline polymers on fracture mechanisms and material properties
Polymer bonded magnets and liquid crystalline polymers for gas sensors
Characterisation of polyolefin copolymers
Thermal analysis of polymers and the development of thermal analytical techniques

Sponsored Research

EPSRC - Polymer Liquid Crystal Sensors for Analyte Detection
EPSRC -High Temperature Self-referencing DSC
BS Films Ltd., Wigton -Cellulose Films

Publications

Selected Recent Publications

Isothermal crystallization and spherulite nucleation in blends of polypropylene with Metallocene- prepared polyethylene, M Razavi-Nouri and J N Hay, Polymer International, 2006, 55, 6.

Phase separation in polypropylene and polyethylene blends, Mohammad Razavi-Nouri and James N Hay, Polymer Eng and Sci., 2006, 46, 889.

Evaluation of Crystallization Kinetics and Melting of Polypropylene and Metallocene-Prepared Polyethylene Blends, Mohammad Razavi-Nouri and James N Hay, J. Applied Polymer Sci., 2007, 104, 634.

Isothermal crystallization kinetics and melting behaviour of metallocene-catalysed polyethylenes, Mohammad Razavi-Nouri and James N Hay Iran Polymer Journal, 2007, 16, 105-12.

The effect of proton irradiation on the melting and isothermal crystallization of poly (ether ether ketone), A G Al Lafi, J N Hay and D J Parker, J. Polymer Sci., Part B, Polymer Physics. 2008, 46, 1094.

The effect of ion irradiation on the thermal properties of poly ( ether ether ketone ). A G Al Lafi, J N Hay and D J Parker, J. Polymer Sci., Part B, Polymer Physics , 2008,46, 2212.

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