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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A. Regoutz, I. Gupta, A. Serb, A. Khiat, F Borgatti, T.L. Lee, C. Schlueter, P. Torelli, B. Gobaut, M. Light, D. Carta, S. Pearce, G. Panaccione & T. Prodromakis,
2016, Advanced Functional Materials, 26(4), 507-513
Type: article
Simone Cortese, Ali Khiat, Daniela Carta, Mark E. Light & Themistoklis Prodromakis,
2016, Applied Physics Letters, 108(3), 1-4
DOI: 10.1063/1.4940361
Type: article
Mauro Callisti, T. Polcar & Lozano-Perez Sergio,
2016, Materials Letters, 163, 138-141
Type: article
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
Type: article
Ruomeng Huang, Gabriela Kissling, Andrew Jolleys, Philip Bartlett, Andrew Hector, William Levason, Gillian Reid & Cornelis de Groot,
2015, Nanoscale Research Letters, 10, 1-7
Type: article
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
C.G. Littlejohns, A.Z. Khokhar, D.J. Thomson, Y. Hu, L. Basset, Scott Reynolds, G.Z. Mashanovich, G.T. Reed & F.Y. Gardes,
2015, IEEE Photonics Journal, 7(4), 1-8
Type: article