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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Lead researchers
Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups
Research outputs
M. Callisti, F.D. Tichelaar & T. Polcar,
2018, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 749, 1000-1008
Type: article
Karel Kouril, Benno Meier, Shamim Alom, Richard J. Whitby & Malcolm H. Levitt,
2018, Faraday Discussions, 212, 517-532
DOI: 10.1039/C8FD00095F
Type: article
Jake J. Prentice, James A. Grant-Jacob, David P. Shepherd, Robert W. Eason & Jacob I. Mackenzie,
2018, Journal of Crystal Growth, 491, 51-56
Type: article
Zecen Zhang, Geok Ing Ng, Ting Hu, Haodong Qiu, X. Guo, Wanjun Wang, Mohamed Said Rouifed, Chongyang Liu, Jiaxu Xia, Jin Zhou, Callum G. Littlejohns, Miloš Nedeljković, Graham T. Reed & Hong Wang,
2018, IEEE Photonics Journal, 10(3), 1-8
Type: article
Christian Bengs & Malcolm H. Levitt,
2018, Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 56(6), 374-414
DOI: 10.1002/mrc.4642
Type: article
Monique Tourell, Ionut-Alexandru Pop, Lynda J. Brown, Richard C.D. Brown & Giuseppe Pileio,
2018, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20(20), 13705-13713
DOI: 10.1039/C8CP00145F
Type: article
Arjen Van Veelen, Monique C Tourell, Nicolai Koebernick, Giuseppe Pileio & Tiina Roose,
2018, Frontiers in Environmental Science
Type: article