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Pd-Fe alloys are of interest due to the unusual interplay between the magnetic and mechanical properties they display. Examples include shape-memory effects in Fe-rich alloys,...

Caesium hydrogen sulfate, CsHSO4 is a solid acid proton conductor, which operates in the temperature range from 100 to 200 °C. Hence, it has potential application in...

We propose an inelastic neutron scattering experiment on the chopper spectrometer MERLIN, which studies spin dynamics of Fe-pnictide LaFeAsO0.49D0.51 (TN ~ 90 K). The purpose of...

The bilayer ruthenate material Sr3Ru2O7 shows an unusual "electronic nematic phase" (ENP) at low temperatures near a magnetic field B =7.95 T. The phase is associated with the...

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...

S=1/2 quasi-one-dimensional competing spin chain Cs2Cu2Mo3O12 has two dominant exchange interactions of the nearest-neighboring ferromagnetic J1 and the second...

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...

This proposal requests 5 days on TOSCA with the aim to investigate the compositional dependence (x) of the local coordination and vibrational properties of the novel class of...

The aims of this proposal are to explore the high-pressure, high-temperature behaviour of two insensitive energetic materials - Nitroguanidine (NQ) and N-guanylurea-dinitramide...

Superconductors have many practical applications, especially in technologies that require high magnetic fields, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Efforts to find new and...

Porous media constitute a broad class of materials which play key roles in geological processes and the modern chemical industry. The properties of confined fluids may be...

Polar or non-centrosymmetric ferri(-o)magnets offer a plethora of potential technological devices;the inherent magnetoelectric effect can underpin both pyroelectric or...

We propose elastic neutron powder diffraction experiments on new perovskite antimonates (Ba,K)SbO3. Recently, we confirmed that heavily K doped antimonates become...

The f-electron metal Yb2Pt2Pb is best thought of as a one dimensional (1D) quantum spin chain system, despite the fact that the magnetic moments are large and anisotropic with...

Reduced graphene oxide (rGO) with defective structure has shown interesting magnetic properties in the frame of room temperature ferromagnetism. The origin of the magnetic...

Exploiting spin coherence phenomena in quantum materials is both technologically and fundamentally relevant, particularly in view of recent developments in quantum computing....

Recent research in to Carbon Nanotubes filled with magnetic materials has produced some interesting results that have the potential to bring about new computing technology. In...

Fluctuations in the properties of materials at low temperatures give rise to unusual and exotic effects. These fluctuations, quantum mechanical in origin and allowed by the...

Lanthanide coordination frameworks containing polyatomic anions are attracting increasing attention for low dimensional magnetism, which appears to be linked to improved...

Quantum phase transitions have recently received a lot of interest in various different fields of physics and the emergent universal properties have been studied in very...