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
lynda Brown, Giuseppe Pileio, Malcolm Levitt & Richard Brown,
2016, Journal of Labelled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals, 1-8
DOI: 10.1002/jlcr.3479
Type: article
Badr Alshammary, Norberto Casillas, Richard Cook, Jonathan Swingler, Carlos Ponce De Leon Albarran & Frank Walsh,
2016, Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry, 20(12), 3375-3382
Type: article
Calum Robertson, Andrew W. Lodge, Peter Basa, Marina Carravetta, Andrew L. Hector, Reza Jalili Kashtiban, Jeremy Sloan, David C. Smith, Joseph Spencer & Alain Walcarius,
2016, RSC Advances, 6, 113432-113441
DOI: 10.1039/C6RA23059H
Type: article
Stuart Elliott, Lynda J. Brown, Jean-Nicolas Dumez & Malcolm H. Levitt,
2016, Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 272, 87-90
Type: article
Andrea Krachmalnicoff, Richard Bounds, Salvatore Mamone, Shamim Alom, Maria Concistrè, Benno Meier, Karel Kouril, Mark E. Light, Mark R. Johnson, Stéphane Rols, Anthony J. Horsewill, Anna Shugai, Urmas Nagel, Toomas Rõõm, Marina Carravetta, Malcolm H. Levitt & Richard J. Whitby,
2016, Nature Chemistry, 8(10), 953-957
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2563
Type: article
Junqing Fan, Liudi Jiang, Le Zhong, Robert P. Gowers, Katrina Morgan & C.H. de Groot,
2016, Materials Letters, 178, 60-63
Type: article
Ruomeng Huang, Kai Sun, Kian S. Kiang, Katrina A. Morgan & C.H. de Groot,
2016, Microelectronic Engineering, 161, 7-12
Type: article