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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 nuclear singlet lifetime of more than one hour in room-temperature solution
Gabriele Stevanato, Joseph T. Hill-Cousins, Pär Håkansson, Soumya Singha Roy, Lynda J. Brown, Richard C.D. Brown, Giuseppe Pileio & Malcolm H. Levitt, 2015, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 54(12), 3740-3743
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201411978
Type: article
Synthesis and characterisation of an open-cage fullerene encapsulating hydrogen fluoride
Andrea Krachmalnicoff, Richard Bounds, Salvatore Mamone, Malcolm H. Levitt, Marina Carravetta & Richard Whitby, 2015, Chemical Communications, 1-4
DOI: 10.1039/C5CC00499C
Type: article
Ordered mesoporous silica films with pores oriented perpendicular to a titanium nitride substrate
Calum Robertson, Richard Beanland, Stuart A. Boden, Andrew Lee Hector, Reza J. Kashtiban, Jeremy Sloan, David C. Smith & Alain Walcarius, 2015, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17(6), 4763-4770
DOI: 10.1039/c4cp05730a
Type: article
A high-throughput approach developing lithium-niobium-tantalum oxides as electrolyte/cathode interlayers for high-voltage all-solid-state lithium batteries
C. Yada, C.E. Lee, D. Laughman, L. Hannah, H. Iba & B.E. Hayden, 2015, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 162(4), A722-A726
DOI: 10.1149/2.0661504jes
Type: article
Theory of long-lived nuclear spin states in methyl groups and quantum-rotor induced polarisation
Jean-Nicolas Dumez, Par Hakansson, Salvo Mamone, Benno Meier, Gabriele Stevanato, Joseph Hill-Cousins, Soumya Singha Roy, Richard Brown, Giuseppe Pileio & Malcolm Levitt, 2015, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 142(4), 1-13
DOI: 10.1063/1.4906273
Type: article
Chemical vapour deposition of antimony chalcogenides with positional and orientational control: precursor design and substrate selectivity
Sophie L. Benjamin, C.H. de Groot, Andrew L. Hector, Ruomeng Huang, Elena Koukharenko, William Levason & Gillian Reid, 2015, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 3, 423-430
DOI: 10.1039/C4TC02327G
Type: article
Stress-induced martensitic transformation in Ni–Ti(–Cu) interlayers controlling stress distribution in functional coatings during sliding
Mauro Callisti & Tomas Polcar, 2015, Applied Surface Science, 325, 192-202
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2014.11.049
Type: article