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Spin Seebeck Devices - The Future of TEGs?
The spin Seebeck effect is a relatively new phenomena that could be harnessed for waste heat recovery. Its advantages lie with a new device architecture (compared to... -
Structure and properties of tungsten oxide - based glasses: insides from conc...
Tungsten oxide containing glasses belong to a group of interesting technological materials because of the specific thermal, mechanical and optical properties obtained by... -
Proton diffusion in zirconate perovskites investigated by QENS
The growth in both global demand for energy and fossil-fuel related environmental issues drive research on alternative fuel sources. Solid oxide fuel cells, which can operate on... -
Pressure Tuning of Sodium Battery Materials: PART II
This is a continuation proposal to the previous study (RB. 1720418) of NaCoO2. Even if the data analysis is still under process, the result could indicate that the transition... -
Low-temperature structures of Prussian blue analogues for electrochemical app...
We propose a low-temperature diffraction study at POLARIS of Prussian blue analogues (PBAs) of general formula NaxMM'(CN)6, where 1 < x 2. These systems currently attract... -
Study of cold moderator materials by Transmission and Deep Inelastic Neutron ...
Cold neutrons are widely used in different fields of research such as the study of the structure and dynamics of solids and liquids, the investigation of magnetic materials,... -
Structural Studies of Umbite-related Ion Exchange Materials
The aim of this research is to determine structural systematics of a series of materials with compositions and structures related to the mineral umbite (K2ZrSi3O9·H2O) and some... -
Dye...TiO2 Interfacial Structure of Working Electrodes in Dye-Sensitised Sola...
The transparent and low-cost nature of dye-sensitised solar cells (DSCs) affords them niche prospects for electricity-generating windows in buildings for energy-sustainable... -
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... -
Quantum Methyl Rotors for Gas Sensing in Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework-8
We aim to utilise Low-Energy Neutron Scattering (LENS) at OSIRIS to investigate the effects of gas adsorption on the quantum rotation of the methyl groups present in a Metal... -
Muon Level Crossing Resonance Studies of Anion-exchange Membranes Under Diffe...
Anion-exchange membranes are used in alkaline fuel cells, a technology which allows for the production of power from hydrogen in impure gas streams. Very little is known about... -
Singlet fission materials as active quantum dot ligands for photon multipliers
Our research aims to develop plastic films that change the colour of the light that passes through them, not by absorbing certain wavelengths of light, as a simple colour filter... -
Study of Corannulene (C20H10) radicals
Carbon nanostructures presenting charge-transfer behavior (e.g. fullerene) can display high affinity to hydrogen and are promising materials for reversible hydrogen storage.... -
Cu-ion mobility and lattice dynamics in the liquid-like phase of Cu2Se
Thermoelectricity enables the conversion of waste heat into useful power, and it is becoming increasingly important for power recovery applications at high temperature, where... -
Ionic and electronic conductors the magnetic structure behind cathode materia...
Ni rich layered oxides are promising cathode materials for Li-ion batteries since they fulfil the energy density requirements of the automobile industry but they tend to degrade... -
The Effect of Closure Weld Thermal Cycles on the Evolution of Residual Stress...
Cr-Mo steel forgings are used in oil and gas components to provide flow control and protection against over-pressure. Joining forgings to flow line requires 2 steps: Dissimilar... -
Morphological Evolution of Hybrid Perovskite Films during crystallisation, an...
Hybrid Perovskites have significant potential in a range of functional applications particularly photovoltaics. They suffer from instability, prone to degradation under... -
Solvation of sodium by glyme-based electrolytes for sodium intercalation into...
Here we propose to study the local structure of sodium ion in glyme electrolytes for sodium ion batteries. Glyme electrolyte are linear ethers of the structure... -
Water soluble ruthenium compounds for homogeneous catalysis processes: the ro...
The combination of NMR, DFT based ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) and total neutron scattering aided by EPSR simulations provide a new method for understand the factors... -
Elucidating Lattice Dynamics of Metal-Organic Frameworks via Inelastic Neutro...
The proposed work will employ Inelastic Neutron Scattering (INS) spectroscopy at TOSCA to establish vibrational frequencies in porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). MOFs...