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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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups
Research outputs
Philip Bartlett, Jennifer Burt, Mahboba Hasan, Andrew Hector, William Levason, Gill Reid & Peter Richardson,
2016, RSC Advances, 6(77), 73323-73330
DOI: 10.1039/C6RA12942K
Type: article
Evangelos Papageorgiou, Murat Hakki Eres & James Scanlan,
2016, Journal of Engineering Design, 27(10), 1-29
Type: article
Stuart Elliott, Lynda J. Brown, Jean-Nicolas Dumez & Malcolm H. Levitt,
2016, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 18(27), 17965-17972
DOI: 10.1039/C6CP03619H
Type: article
David Thomson, Aaron Zilkie, John Bowers, Tin Komljenovic, Graham Reed, Laurent Vivien, Delphine Marris-Morini, Eric Cassan, Leopold Virot, Jean-Marc Fédéli, Jean-Michel Hartmann, Jens Schmid, Dan-Xia Xu, Frederic Boeuf, Peter O'Brien, Goran Mashanovich & Miloš Nedeljković,
2016, Journal of Optics, 18(7), 1-20
Type: article
C. Lei, K.S. Ryder, M. Burton & I. Nandhakumar,
2016, Electrochemistry Communications, 66, 1-4
Type: article
Xianji Li, Andrew L. Hector, John R. Owen & S. Imran U. Shah,
2016, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4(14), 5081-5087
DOI: 10.1039/c5ta08287k
Type: article
Sergey Yakovlev & Brian E. Hayden,
2016, Thin Solid Films, 603, 108-114
Type: article