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
Y. Hu, D. J. Thomson, A. Z. Khokhar, S. Stanković, C. J. Mitchell, F. Y. Gardes, J. Soler Penades, G. Z. Mashanovich & G. T. Reed,
2015, Royal Society Open Science, 2(10)
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150270
Type: article
Shenghao Liu, D. Thomson, K.E. LI, Peter Wilson & Graham Reed,
2015, Electronics Letters, 51(23), 1900-1902
DOI: 10.1049/el.2015.2909
Type: article
Malcolm H. Levitt,
2015, Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 1-9
Type: article
Benno Meier, Salvatore Mamone, Maria Concistrè, Javier Alonso-Valdesueiro, Andrea Krachmalnicoff, Richard Whitby & Malcolm H. Levitt,
2015, Nature Communications, 6, 1-12
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9112
Type: article
Philip N. Bartlett, Sophie L. Benjamin, C.H. (Kees) de Groot, Andrew L. Hector, Ruomeng Huang, Andrew Jolleys, Gabriela Kissling, William Levason, Stuart J. Pearce, Gillian Reid & Yudong Wang,
2015, Materials Horizons, 2(4), 420-426
DOI: 10.1039/C5MH00030K
Type: article
Joseph Hill-Cousins, Ionut-Alexandru Pop, Giuseppe Pileio, Gabriele Stevanato, Par Hakansson, Soumya Singha Roy, Malcolm Levitt, Lynda Brown & Richard Brown,
2015, Organic Letters, 17(9), 2150-2153
Type: article
E. Frutos, M. Callisti, M. Karlik & T. Polcar,
2015, Materials Science and Engineering: A, 632, 137-146
Type: article