Dr Stacy Moore

Stacy is an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow at the University of Bristol (UK) where she is working to develop new methods to characterise localised corrosion events using HS-AFM as part of a unique suite of analytical techniques. Her aim is to understand the mechanisms of localised corrosion with new confidence by identifying key factors contributing to corrosion propensity.

One of her most recent papers (‘Observation of stress corrosion cracking using real-time in situ high-speed atomic force microscopy and correlative techniques’) showed how in situ HS-AFM observations in combination with complementary techniques can give important insights into the mechanisms of stress corrosion cracking (SCC).

Dr Stacy Moore

Recent AFM-related papers:

• Moore, S., Burrows, R., Kumar, D., Kloucek, M. B., Warren, A. D., Flewitt, P. E. J., Picco, L., Payton, O. D. and Martin, T. L. (2021). ‘Observation of stress corrosion cracking using real-time in situ high-speed atomic force microscopy and correlative techniques’. npj Materials Degradation, 5(3).

• Moore, S., Warren, A. D., Burrows, R., Payton, O. D., Picco, L., Russell-Pavier, F. S., Martin, P. G. and Martin, T. L. (2021). ‘Sample preparation methods for optimal HS-AFM analysis: Duplex stainless steel’. Ultramicroscopy, 222, 1113210.

• Clark, R. N., Burrows, R., Patel, R., Moore, S., Hallam, K. R. and Flewitt, P. E. J. (2020). ‘Nanometre to micrometre length-scale techniques for characterising environmentally-assisted cracking: An appraisal’. Heliyon, 6(3), e03448.

Biography: Stacy Moore received her MSci in Physics from the University of Bristol (UK) in 2016, after which she undertook a PhD in Physics at the same university (2016-2021).

Her PhD research focused on the application of HS-AFM to observe nanoscale corrosion initiation events such as SCC initiation occurring in austenitic stainless steels whilst under stress and within corrosive conditions.

Alongside her PhD she worked as an Instrument Scientist at Bristol Nano Dynamics, developing user guides for the HS-AFM and designing HS-AFM experiments with collaborators. Since 2021, she has worked as an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow at the University of Bristol.

Twitter: @S_Mooreorless

Website: Stacy R Moore — University of Bristol

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