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Ion dynamics in Sodium and Potassium Cobalt Dioxides
We found that muSR detects Li-diffusion in LixCoO2, LiNiO2, Lix(NiCoMn)O2 and LiFePO4 through a dynamic behavior of nuclear field relaxation. Very recently, we have also found... -
Neutron scattering to characterise protein interactions with solid-liquid int...
Objectives of this proposal aim to shed light on how adsorption processes such as protein A chromatography, used to purify biologics, affect protein propensity for aggregation.... -
AGGREGATION BEHAVIOUR OF A NOVEL P-AOT SURFACTANT
This proposal aims to provide essential surfactant micellisation structural information of significant interest in its own right but also as key information for our on-going... -
QENS on Lightweight Borohydrides
We propose to study two aspects of the hydrogen dynamics in complex hydrides:First: The structural transitions in borohydrides are believed to be connected with an increase in... -
Structure determination of water-rich and highly metastable energy-storage ma...
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Competitive adsorption of Fatty acid, Phosphoric acid and Sulphonic acid salt...
This proposal presents a comparative study of the adsorption of three key chemical groups onto an important technological substrate, viz. fatty acid salt (Sodium hexanoate),... -
Effect of surfactant head group on micelle structure of drug containing micelles
The aim of the current project is to probe (at the nanometer length scale) the relationship between the solution structures of a surfactant molecule, the aggregate(s) it forms... -
The effect of sodium ordering on rattling modes in sodium cobaltate
NaxCoO2 has exceptional thermoelectric properties, including low thermal conductivity, and it is currently under consideration for use in power recovery applications and as a... -
Dynamical Landscape in Cat-Anionic Vesicles: Effect of Multi to Unilamellar T...
Vesicles have spheroid structures composed of bilayers of amphiphilic molecules and widely used as models of cell membranes and as carriers for controlled drug delivery.... -
Protein interactions at solid-liquid interfaces: The effect of affinity colum...
Biopharmaceuticals are manufactured using chromatographic procedures including adsorption and desorption processes at the solid-liquid interface. These events take place in... -
QENS studies of Na-ion battery materials
LixCoO2 is used extensively in portable batteries in laptops and mobile phones, but the scarcity of Li means that alternative materials are required. Structurally related... -
Novel Alginate Adsorption onto High Surface Energy Crystal Faces of Calcite
In this novel proposal we will investigate adsorption onto the non-equilibrium face of calcite the first time this has been attempted. This will compliment and extend our... -
Structures of the superconducting metal/ammonia intercalates of FeSe
We will use POLARIS to determine the structures of the high temperature superconducting intercalates obtained by the reactions between FeSe and deuterated ammonia solutions... -
Magnetically Driven Ferroelectric Order in the 2D Antiferromagnet b-NaMnO2.
Incommensurate magnetic phases generated by frustrated magnetic exchange interactions can stabilise novel induced magnetoelectrics. We have recently found that the... -
Inelastic Neutron Scattering Experiments in the Sulfur-Ammonia Photothermoche...
The following proposal aims to ellucidate the role of ammonium ions in sulfite oxidation reaction. The key step in the sulfur-ammonia photothermochemical cycle, which is one of... -
Adsorption of Sodium Polyacrylate onto a-Alumina
In this proposal we investigate the adsorption of the key dispersant additive, sodium polyacrylate, used in colloidal systems using neutron reflection on aluminium oxide, with... -
The Grüneisen and Anderson-Grüneisen parameters of mirabilite (Na2SO4.10D2O)
Sodium sulfate decahydrate (mirabilite) may be an important rock-forming mineral in the outer solar system, comprising a large fraction of the mantles of Jupiter's icy moons; it... -
A high-pressure study of monovalent bifluorides
This proposal seeks PEARL beam time to conduct the first high-pressure neutron diffraction study of the monovalent azides XDF2, where X = Na, ND4, Cs and Tl. In so doing, we... -
Nuclear Structures of Lithium Substituted Layered Transition Metal Oxide Cath...
Novel cathode materials for rechargeable batteries have been under intense investigation since high cost and toxicity of current Li-ion batteries. We propose to study the... -
Discrete breathers in the high-temperature vibrational spectra of alkali halides
Inelastic neutron measurements on some selected polycrystalline alkali halides (namely LiBr, LiI, NaBr, NaI), where the mass difference between anions and cations is large, are...