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
Ioanna Bakaimi, Xingli He, Samuel Guerin, Nur Hashim, Qi Luo, Ian M. Reaney, Steven Gao, Brian Hayden & Cornelis De Groot,
2018, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2018(6), 6222-6228
DOI: 10.1039/C8TC01396A
Type: article
M.A. Monclus, M. Callisti, T. Polcar, L.W. Yang, J.M. Molina-Aldareguia & J Llorca,
2018, Journal of Materials Science, 53(8), 5860-5878
Type: article
Lorenzo Mastronardi, Mehdi Banakar, Ali Khokhar, Nannicha Hattasan, Teerapat Rutirawut, Thalía Domínguez Bucio, Katarzyna, Monika Grabska, Callum Littlejohns, Alexandre Bazin, Goran Mashanovich & Frederic Gardes,
2018, Optics Express, 26(6), 6663-6673
DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.006663
Type: article
E. Frutos, M. Karlík, J.A. Jiménez, H. Langhansová, J. Lieskovská & T. Polcar,
2018, Materials and Design, 142, 44-55
Type: article
Junxian Zhang, Andrew L. Hector, Samantha Soule, Qinghua Zhang & Xin Zhao,
2018, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 6(12), 5208-5216
DOI: 10.1039/c7ta11142h
Type: article
Mark Vousden, Maximilian Albert, Marijan Beg, Marc-Antonio Bisotti, Rebecca Carey, Dmitri Chernyshenko, David Cortes, Weiwei Wang, Ondrej Hovorka, Christopher H. Marrows & Hans Fangohr,
2018, Applied Physics Letters, 108(13), 1-4
DOI: 10.1063/1.4945262
Type: article
J. Soler Penadés, A. Sánchez-Postigo, M. Nedeljković, A. Ortega-Moñux, J. G. Wangüemert-Pérez, Y. Xu, R. Halir, Z. Qu, A. Z. Khokhar, A. Osman, W. Cao, C. G. Littlejohns, P. Cheben, I. Molina-Fernández & G.Z. Mashanovich,
2018, Optics Letters, 43(4), 795-798
DOI: 10.1364/OL.43.000795
Type: letterEditorial