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.
Staff
Lead researchers
Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups
Research outputs
Chunlei Sun, Wenhao Wu, Yu Yu, Xinliang Zhang & Graham T. Reed,
2018, Optics Letters, 43(15), 3658-3661
DOI: 10.1364/OL.43.003658
Type: article
Thomas Homewood, Nuria Garcia-Araez, John R. Owen, James Frith, Vivek Padmanabhan, Dino Tonti & Nieves Casañ-Pastor,
2018, Chemical Communications, 1-6
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC03832E
Type: article
M. Callisti, M. Karlik & T. Polcar,
2018, Scripta Materialia, 152, 31-35
Type: article
Sara Frost, Samuel Guerin, Brian Hayden, Jean-Philippe Soulie & Chris Vian,
2018, ACS Combinatorial Science, 20(7), 451-460
Type: article
Andrew L. Hector, Andrew Lodge, Mahboba Hasan, Philip N. Bartlett, Richard Beanland, Reza Jalili Kashtiban, William Levason, Gillian Reid, Jeremy Sloan, David C. Smith & Wenjian Zhang,
2018, RSC Advances, 8(42), 24013-24020
DOI: 10.1039/C8RA03183E
Type: article
Joshua Whittam, Andrew L. Hector, Christopher Kavanagh, John R. Owen & Gillian Reid,
2018, ACS Omega, 3(6), 6880-6887
Type: article
Benno Meier, Karel Kouril, Christian Bengs, Hana Kourilova, Timothy Barker, Stuart Elliott, Shamim Alom, Richard J. Whitby & Malcolm H. Levitt,
2018, Physical Review Letters, 120(26), 1-6
Type: letterEditorial