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The role of defects in the pressure-induced octahedral tilting in Prussian bl...
We propose a high-pressure study of two Prussian blue analogues, Mn[Co(CN)6]0.67 and MnPt(CN)6. Our high-pressure XRD study shows a phase transition from cubic to rhombohedral... -
Oxygen defect structure in higher order Ruddlesden-Popper nickelate phases
Ruddlesden Popper phases where n = 2 or 3 e.g. La4Ni3O10 are receiving increasing interest as potetnial fuel cell cathodes. However the structural and oxygen non-stoichiometry... -
Heterogeneous protein exchange at the solid/liquid interface using deuterated...
The formation of protein layers on surfaces is important for medical implants and for the consequences of the ingestion of nanoparticles. In the body, a surface is exposed to a... -
Inelastic neutron scattering from H_2 in binary clathrate hydrates
The proposing team is interested in exploring the rotational and translational dynamics of molecular hydrogen trapped in water-based cages (clathrate hydrates). These systems... -
MuSR study on a new superconductor: Pr3Cr10-xN11
A new superconductor Pr3Cr10-xN11 (Tc = 4.5 K) was discovered, and is potential candidate to host unconventional superconductivity. We propose to perform muon spin... -
Operando neutron reflectometry of lithiated silicon protected by an artificia...
Besides green energy harvest the storage of energy is one major problem in modern world. The state-of-the-art battery systems nearly reached their theoretical limit. Therefore... -
Absolute normalisation of spectra in DINS experiments:exploring the route to ...
The aim of this proposal is to investigate in the methodology of Deep Inelastic Neutron Scattering (DINS) data analysis, with especial emphasis in the absolute normalisation of... -
Modular Hydrogen Storage Solutions With Cheap Materials: Nanostructured Mg(OH...
The applicants seek two days of beam time to study the magnesium hydroxide - lithium hydride hydrogen release system. This system can theoretically release 5.44% of hydrogen and... -
Temperature dependence of the coercive stress in rhombohedral PZT ceramics
The aim of the proposed experiment is to determine the temperature dependence of the coercive stress, i.e. the critical stress required to induce ferroelastic domain switching,... -
Lattice and proton vibrational dynamics in Sc-doped BaTiO3 proton conductors
Proton conducting BaTi1-xScxO3Hx (BTS) perovskites are promising materials for proton conducting fuel cells in the intermediate temperature regime (200-600 °C). Compared to... -
Possibility of anomalous magnetic order under zero field in S=1/2 competing s...
S=1/2 quasi-one-dimensional competing spin chain Cs2Cu2Mo3O12 has two dominant exchange interactions of the nearest-neighboring ferromagnetic J1 and the second... -
Total Neutron Scattering Study of the Structure of a Novel Ceria Catalyst
We require 1 day of rapid access time to complete the study of some novel catalyst materials based on doped CeO2. The work is for a final-year PhD student to make the link... -
nGEM testing for Bragg edge imaging
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Structural Observation of the Self-Assembly Kinetics of Cyclic Peptide Nanotubes
Cyclic peptides with alternating side chain stereochemistry are capable of self-assembling into long nanotubes. The conjugation of polymers to these peptides renders the... -
Structure in model fire-fighting foams
The aim is to probe the structure in and of foams for three common industrial fluorotelomer surfactants used in fire-fighting foam formulations using SANS. The structure of... -
Total scattering measurements for local structure determination in novel redu...
Nuclear fusion offers safe and sustainable power generation, without the production of long-lived radioactive wastes. Fusion core structural materials will be subjected to... -
Towards the Calibration of Chemical Pressure
The application of hydrostatic pressure allows the precise tuning of atomic separations, which control electronic structure and virtually all the interatomic interactions that... -
Encapsulation in Mixed Cat-anionic Surfactant Polymer Films
This proposal continues our investigations into polyelectrolyte-surfactant films at the air-solution interface. Using mixtures of cationic and anionic surfactants (CTAB/SDS) we... -
HD dynamics in ice XVII
The proposing team has recently obtained important neutron scattering results on samples of different kind of ice containing molecular hydrogen (sII and sH hydrogen-filled... -
Local structure and oxygen nonstoichiometry in the cubic Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2...
Oxygen nonstoichiometry (d) of perovskite-type Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-d (BSCF) was recently studied by combination of TGA, coulometric titration and neutron diffraction (ND)....
