B Hayden - EPSRC Advanced Material Capital Equipment

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.

Staff

Lead researchers

Emeritus Professor Brian Hayden

Connect with Brian

Email: B.E.Hayden@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Electrochemistry

A well-established world-class group researching energy charge transfer that affects many facets of life.

Research outputs

Amorphous SiC resistive memory with embedded Cu nanoparticles

Junqing Fan, Liudi Jiang, Shuncai Wang, Ruomeng Huang, Katrina Morgan, Le Zhong & Kees de Groot, 2017, Microelectronic Engineering, 174, 1-5

DOI: 10.1016/j.mee.2016.12.005

Type: article

Study on the crack resistance of CrBN composite coatings via nano-indentation and scratch tests

QIANZHI WANG, Fei Zhou, MAURO CALLISTI, Tomas Polcar, Jizhou Kong & Jiwang Yan, 2017, Journal of Alloys and Compounds

DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2017.03.105

Type: article

Effect of oxidative surface treatments on charge storage at titanium nitride surfaces for supercapacitor applications

Benjamin Gray, Andrew Hector, Marek Jura, John Owen & Joshua Whittam, 2017, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 5(9), 4550-4559

DOI: 10.1039/C6TA08308K

Type: article

A novel route to nanostructured bismuth telluride films by electrodeposition

M.R. Burton, S.J. Richardson, P.A. Staniec, N.J. Terrill, J.M. Elliott, A.M. Squires, N.M. White & Iris S. Nandhakumar, 2017, Electrochemistry Communications, 76, 71-74

DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2017.02.004

Type: article

Combined size and texture-dependent deformation and strengthening mechanisms in Zr/Nb nano-multilayers

Mauro Callisti & Tomas Polcar, 2017, Acta Materialia, 124, 247-260

DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2016.11.007

Type: article

Singlet NMR methodology in two-spin-1/2 systems

Giuseppe Pileio, 2017, Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, 98-99, 1-19

DOI: 10.1016/j.pnmrs.2016.11.002

Type: article

Raman-shifted wavelength-selectable pulsed fiber laser with high repetition rate and high pulse energy in the visible

L. Xu, S. Alam, Q. Kang, D.P. Shepherd & D.J. Richardson, 2017, Optics Express, 25(1), 351-356

DOI: 10.1364/OE.25.000351

Type: article