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Vibrational properties of hydrogen in niobium oxide
Niobium oxide based compounds have superior catalytic properties. Research to get an inside into the physical properties of hydrogen is extremely difficult as hydrogen in Nb2O5... -
Vibrational properties of ammine complexes
Our intention is to study the INS spectra of ammine complexes nNH3LiBH4 (with n = 1,2,3,4) and nNH3LiI (n=1). Ammine complexes (MXm(NH3)n), amides (M(NH2)m), and imides... -
Sulfathiazole polymorph thermodynamics
Polymorphism is a major problem in the pharmaceutical industry and also a conceptual bottleneck in the conversion of useful molecular properties into useful materials... -
Proton vibrational dynamics in pristine and nano-confined ammonia borane stud...
In the proposed experiment ammonia borane (NH_3BH_3) will be investigated through incoherent inelastic neutron scattering on TOSCA at low temperature. Since it is well known... -
Determination of the Thermodynamic Properties of the Hydration Layers on Poro...
INS is an ideal means of probing the complete vibrational density of states of water adsorbed on the surface of metal oxide nanoparticles with minimal interference from the... -
THE CONFORMATIONAL BEHAVIOUR OF ANTIOXIDANT CHROMONES
The present work aims at studying a series of potentially chemopreventive chromones by Inelastic Neutron Scattering spectroscopy, in view of achieving a complete understanding... -
Spectroscopic Studies of RDX and HMX
The aim of this proposal is to measure inelastic neutron spectra using the TOSCA instrument for a series of samples of the widely used secondary explosives RDX and HMX. During a... -
INS identification of adsorption sites in catalysts for selective oxidation o...
Current stringent environmental regulations oblige to treat hydrogen sulphide (H2S) emissions originated in petroleum refineries and gas plants. Claus processes are the most... -
Local structure and proton sites in proton conducting brownmillerites
This proposal requests 6 days on Tosca to investigate the nature of local structure and proton sites in the proton conducting brownmillerite system Ba2In1.85M0.15O6H2 (M = In,... -
Defect perturbation of the rotational states of NH4 in octahedral environments
The (NH4)0.02 Rbx K0.98-x I system offers advantages for the systematic study of tunnelling species and how they interact. Currently there are two models to explain the dynamics... -
Wittig Revisited: Cleaning up 50 years of Waste in Metal-Free Catalysis
Recent thereotical determinations on the Wittig reaction point to low energy (terahertz) vibrations in the ~15-50 meV region being responsible for selectivity of this industrial... -
The vibrational spectrum of C60
The vibrational spectrum of C60 has been investigated by many techniques since it became available in significcant quantities. Previous INS spectra were recorded with small... -
Characterization of texture of bronze standards through Bragg edge diffractio...
The Bragg edge transmission technique (BET) is a diffraction method exploiting the edges appearing in the transmitted neutron spectra crossing polycrystalline materials and is... -
Proton vibrations in lithium imide studied through incoherent inelastic neutr...
We propose to measure the incoherent neutron spectra of lithium amide (LiNH_2) and imide (Li_2NH) at low temperature (T<20 K). These two substances belong to the Li-H-N... -
Investigation of hydrogen dynamics on pure and metal cluster decorated metal ...
Metal oxides(MO) are widely used in technological applications especially for catalysts and supports for catalysts. We propose to use the inelastic response of H2 adsorbed on... -
POLYMORPHISM IN PLATINUM(II) COMPLEXES PROBED BY SIMULTANEOUS INS AND RAMAN S...
The present study aims to probe polymorphic transitions in Pt(II)-amine complexes, aiming at identifying the INS and Raman spectral signature of each species as well as their... -
INS investigation of the decomposition intermediates for the destabilised mul...
Here we propose the investigation of intermediate compounds obtained during the decomposition of the multicomponent hydrogen storage system 2 LiBH4 : MgH2 using ex-situ... -
In-situ Inelastic Neutron Scattering Study of a Gas Loaded Aluminium-carboxyl...
We request 9 days on TOSCA to study the interaction of adsorbed SO2 and NO2 gas molecules with a porous aluminium-based metal-organic framework (MOF) as a function of gas... -
In-situ study of hydrogen absorption and desorption in metal-hydride hydrogen...
In order to develop our understanding of hydrogen coordination as a function of pressure within two titanium-chromium-vanadium-molybdenum alloys, Ti10Cr10V75Mo5 and... -
HERBICIDE LIFETIMES IN SOILS
The herbicides mesotrione and tembotrione have been observed to have short half-lives in soil. Furthermore, their partition coefficients (Kd and Koc) suggest limited soil...
