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
Sally Bloodworth, Gabriela Sitinova, Shamim Alom, Sara Vidal, George, Razvan Bacanu, Stuart J Elliott, Mark Light, Julie Herniman, G. John Langley, Malcolm H. Levitt & Richard J. Whitby,
2019, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58(15), 5038-5043
Type: article
Angelos Xomalis, Iosif Demirtzioglou, Yongmin Jung, Eric Plum, Cosimo Lacava, Periklis Petropoulos, David Richardson & Nikolai Zheludev,
2019, APL Photonics, 4, 1-8
DOI: 10.1063/1.5092216
Type: article
Kirill F. Sheberstov, Alexey S. Kiryutin, Christian Bengs, Joseph T. Hill-Cousins, Lynda J. Brown, Richard C.D. Brown, Giuseppe Pileio, Malcolm H. Levitt, Alexandra V. Yurkovskaya & Konstantin L. Ivanov,
2019, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21(11), 6087-6100
DOI: 10.1039/C9CP00451C
Type: article
Hamid Khan, Henry Medina, Lee Kheng Tan, Wengweei Tjiu, Stuart A. Boden, Jinghua Teng & Iris Nandhakumar,
2019, Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1-7
Type: article
Cosimo Lacava, Mohamed Ettabib, Thalia Domínguez Bucio, Graham Sharp, Ali Khokhar, Yongmin Jung, Marc Sorel, Frederic Gardes, David J. Richardson, Periklis Petropoulos & Francesca Parmigiani,
2019, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 37(7)
Type: article
Zhixin Liu, B. Karanov, L. Galdino, J.R. Hayes, D. Lavery, K.A. Clark, K. Shi, D.J. Elson, B.C. Thomsen, M.N. Petrovich, D.J. Richardson, F. Poletti, R. Slavík & P. Bayvel,
2019, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 37(3), 909-916
Type: article
S.J. Elliott, C. Bengs, L.J. Brown, J.T. Hill-Cousins, D.J. O'Leary, G. Pileio & M.H. Levitt,
2019, Journal of Chemical Physics, 150(6)
DOI: 10.1063/1.5074199
Type: article