Project overview
X-ray diffraction is the main technique by which scientists and engineers study the structures of crystalline materials, however some sample types are often neglected due to the requirement for specialised instrumentation and expertise. This proposal provides advanced equipment to apply diffraction and related methods to a series of lesser-studied sample types of great importance in technology and in understanding environmental processes. These include thin layers of material on surfaces, where information about atomic separations, particle sizes, crystal orientation and changes in the size of the lattice due to interactions with the underlying material can be obtained. This will be critical to the understanding of a range of functional materials with applications in energy conversion and storage, electronics, optoelectronics and engineering. It will also be possible to study very small regions of a material, this is important in examination of single components or regions of a sample where variations are important in understanding properties. Sample types include minerals, where the structure of individual grains will contribute to knowledge of interactions with the environment, and single components of grids of material designed to have specific interactions with light.
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Research outputs
Mohamed Sabba, Nino Wili, Christian Bengs, James W. Whipham, Lynda J. Brown & Malcolm H. Levitt,
2022, Journal of Chemical Physics, 157(13)
DOI: 10.1063/5.0103122
Type: article
Gabriela Hoffman, George R. Bacanu, Elizabeth Marsden, Mark Walkey, Mohamed Sabba, Sally Bloodworth, Graham J. Tizzard, Malcolm H. Levitt & Richard J. Whitby,
2022, Chemical Communications, 2022(80), 11284-11287
DOI: 10.1039/D2CC03398D
Type: article
James Whipham, Gamal Moustafa, Mohamed Sabba, Weidong Gong, Christian Bengs & Malcolm H. Levitt,
2022, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 157(10)
DOI: 10.1063/5.0107221
Type: article
Bowen Liu, Andrew L. Hector, Weronika O. Razmus & Richard G.A. Wills,
2022, Batteries, 8(9)
Type: article
Goby, Adithya Govindassamy, Jake J Prentice, James G. Lunney, R.W. Eason & Jacob Mackenzie,
2022, Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, 128(7)
Type: article
Tanzeeha Jafari, George Razvan Bacanu, Anna Shugai, Urmas Nagel, Mark Walkey, Gabriela Hoffman, Malcolm H. Levitt, Richard J. Whitby & Toomas Rõõm,
2022, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 24(17), 9943-9952
DOI: 10.1039/d2cp00515h
Type: article
Gilles, Ernest Heinrich Karl Moehl, Tauqir Nasir, Yisong Han, Yasir Noori, Ruomeng Huang, Richard Beanland, Philip N. Bartlett & Andrew L. Hector,
2022, Nanoscale, 14(14), 5404-5411
DOI: 10.1039/D1NR08253A
Type: article