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
Xia Chen, Milan Milošević, David Thomson, Ali Khokhar, Yohann Franz, Antoine Runge, Sakellaris Mailis, Anna C. Peacock & Graham Reed,
2017, Photonics Research, 5(6), 578-582
DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.5.000578
Type: article
Yang Chen, Thalia Domínguez Bucio, Ali Z. Khokhar, Mehdi Banakar, Katarzyna Grabska, Frederic Y. Gardes, Robert Halir, Íñigo Molina-Fernández, Pavel Cheben & Jian-Jun He,
2017, Optics Letters, 42(18), 3566-3569
DOI: 10.1364/OL.42.003566
Type: article
Jean-Nicolas Dumez, Basile Vuichoud, Daniele Mammoli, Aurélien Bornet, Arthur C. Pinon, Gabriele Stevanato, Benno Meier, Geoffery Bodenhausen, Sami Jannin & Malcolm H. Levitt,
2017, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 8(15), 3549-3555
Type: article
O. Maduka Ogba, Stuart Elliott, David A. Kolin, Lynda J. Brown, Sebastian Cevallos, Stuart Sawyer, Malcolm H. Levitt & Daniel J. O'Leary,
2017, The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 82(17), 8943–8949
Type: article
2017, Scientific Reports, 7, 1-11
Type: article
Yao-Pang Chang, Andrew L. Hector, William Levason & Gillian Reid,
2017, Dalton Transactions
DOI: 10.1039/C7DT01911D
Type: article
Betty Meng Zhang, Yujun Feng, Di Lin, Jonathan H.V. Price, Johan Nilsson, Shaiful Alam, Perry Ping Shum, David Neil Payne & David J. Richardson,
2017, Optics Express, 25(13), 15402-15413
DOI: 10.1364/OE.25.015402
Type: article