Director of the Research Centre for Surface and Materials Science
Senior Lecturer

Contact details

Room 401.804
City Campus
20 Symonds Street
Auckland

Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 87307
Email: b.james@auckland.ac.nz

Qualifications

1998 PhD Materials Engineering, The University of Auckland
1993 B.Eng (Hons) Materials Science & Engineering, University of Bath, England

Research interests

• Materials caracterisation
• Food structure/property relationships
• Surface science and engineering

Research groups

• Research Centre for Surface and Materials Science
• Food Science and Engineering

Teaching

• CHEMMAT 121 - Materials Science
• CHEMMAT 724 - Advanced Materials Characterisation

Selected publications

James, B.J., ‘Advances in “Wet” Electron Microscopy techniques and their application to the study of food structure’ Trends in Food Science and Technology, 20, 114-124, 2009
James, B.J., Smith, B.G., 'Surface structure and composition of fresh and bloomed chocolate analysed using X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Cryo-scanning Electron Microscopy and Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy' LWT – Food Science and Technology 42(5), 929-937, 2009
James, B.J., Cameron, R., Baskcomb, C. 'Selected area XPS analysis for identification of pigment compounds in microscopic paint flakes' Research Letters in Materials Science, vol. 2008, Article ID 247053, 4 pages, 2008. doi:10.1155/2008/247053, 2008
Matthews, S.J., James, B.J., Hyland M.M., 'The role of microstructure in the high temperature oxidation mechanism of Cr3C2–NiCr composite coatings', Corrosion Science, 51(5), 1172-1180, 2009

Administration

• Director, RCSMS