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
Kelly Rees, Emanuela Lorusso, Samuel Cosham, Alexander N. Kulak & Geoffrey Hyett,
2018, Dalton Transactions
DOI: 10.1039/c7dt04694d
Type: article
Stuart J. Elliott, Christian Bengs, Karel Kouril, Benno Meier, Shamim Alom, Richard J. Whitby & Malcolm H. Levitt,
2018, ChemPhysChem, 19, 251-255
Type: article
Angelos Xomalis, Iosif Demirtzioglou, Eric Plum, Yongmin Jung, Venkatram Nalla, Cosimo Lacava, Kevin F. MacDonald, Periklis Petropoulos, David Richardson & Nikolai Zheludev,
2018, Nature Communications, 9
Type: article
Dmitry Shishmarev, Alan J. Wright, Tiago B. Rodrigues, Giuseppe Pileio, Gabriele Stevanato, Kevin M. Brindle & Philip W. Kuchel,
2018, NMR in Biomedicine, 31(3), 1-13
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3870
Type: article
James Eills, Javier Alonso-Valdesueiro, David E. Salazar Marcano, Jesse Ferreira da Silva, Shamim Alom, Gregory J. Rees, John V. Hanna, Marina Carravetta & Malcolm H. Levitt,
2018, ChemPhysChem, 19(1), 40–44
Type: article
Sally Bloodworth, John Gravisk, Shamim Alom, Karel Kouril, Stuart Elliott, Neil J. Wells, Anthony J. Horsewill, Salvatore Mamone, Mónica Jiménez-Ruiz, Stéphane Rols, Urmas Nagel, Toomas Rõõm, Malcolm H. Levitt & Richard J. Whitby,
2018, ChemPhysChem, 19, 266-276
Type: article
Javier Alonso-Valdesueiro, Stuart Elliott, Christian Bengs, Benno Meier & Malcolm H. Levitt,
2018, Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 286, 158-162
Type: article