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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

Research outputs

A versatile precursor system for supercritical fluid electrodeposition of main-group materials
Philip N. Bartlett, Jennifer Burt, David A. Cook, Charles Y. Cummings, Michael W. George, Andrew Hector, Mahboba Hasan, Jie Ke, William Levason, David Pugh, Gillian Reid, Peter W. Richardson, David C. Smith, Joe Spencer, Norhidayah Suleiman & Wenjian Zhang, 2016, Chemistry - A European Journal, 22(1), 302-309
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201503301
Type: article
An optimised detector for in-situ high-resolution NMR in microfluidic devices
2016, Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 262, 73-80
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2015.11.011
Type: article
Nano-scale wear characterization of CoCrMo biomedical alloys
V. Martinez-Nogues, J.M. Nesbitt, R. Wood & R. Cook, 2016, Tribology International, 93, 563-572
DOI: 10.1016/j.triboint.2015.03.037
Type: article
High speed and low power silicon-based receiver front-end for optical interconnect
Shen-Wen Chen, Po-Wei Chiu, Yan-Feng Li, Shawn S.H. Hsu, K. Li, D.J. Thomson & G.T. Reed, 2016
DOI: 10.1109/GROUP4.2016.7739088
Type: conference
NMR of 133Cs+ in stretched hydrogels: one-dimensional, z- and NOESY spectra, and probing the ion’s environment in erythrocytes
Philip W. Kuchel, Dmitry Shishmarev, Max Puckeridge, Malcolm Levitt, Christoph Naumann & Bogdan E. Chapman, 2015, Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 261, 110-120
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2015.10.011
Type: article
Nuclear spin relaxation
Malcolm H. Levitt, 2015, Resonance, 20(11), 986-994
DOI: 10.1007/s12045-015-0266-4
Type: article
Supercritical fluid electrodeposition of elemental germanium onto titanium nitride substrates
Charlie Cummings, Philip N. Bartlett, David Pugh, Gillian Reid, William Levason, Mahboba M. Hasan, Andrew L. Hector, Joe Spencer & David C. Smith, 2015, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 162(14), D619-D624
DOI: 10.1149/2.0771514jes
Type: article