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
Brian Hayden, Daniel Hewak, Christopher Vian & Samuel Guerin,
2017, ACS Combinatorial Science
Type: article
Ruomeng Huang, Xingzhao Yan, Sheng Ye, Reza J. Kashtiban, Richard Beanland, Katrina A. Morgan, Martin D.B. Charlton & C.H. de Groot,
2017, Nanoscale Research Letters, 12
Type: article
Karel Kouril, Christopher Wickens, Benno Meier, Shamim Alom, John Grasvik, Richard J. Whitby & Malcolm H. Levitt,
2017, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2017(19), 11793-11801
DOI: 10.1039/C7CP00906B
Type: article
2017
Type: conference
Christian Harito, Dmitry V. Bavykin, Mark E. Light & Frank C. Walsh,
2017, Composites Part B: Engineering, 124, 54-63
Type: article
Jiazheng Wang, Felix Kreis, Alan J. Wright, Richard L. Hesketh, Malcolm H. Levitt & Kevin M. Brindle,
2017, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.26725
Type: article
Di Lin, Neda Baktash, Martin Berendt, Martynas Beresna, Peter Kazansky, William Clarkson, Shaif-ul Alam & David Richardson,
2017, Optics Letters, 42(9), 1740-1743
DOI: 10.1364/OL.42.001740
Type: article