ANSTO's research capabilities, led by the OPAL nuclear research reactor and associated instruments provide access to users investigating areas as diverse as materials, life sciences, climate change and mining/engineering.
Invited Talks 2009
"How Quokka and Platypus see soft matter", Bill Hamilton at 11th Pacific Polymer Conference (PPC-11), Cairns, 6-10 December 2009
“Molecular Interactions with Copolymer Films at the Air-Water Interface Using Neutron Reflectometry”, Michael James, Workshop on Liquid Surfaces, Seoul, Korea, 3-4 December 2009.
“Characterisation of Engineered Surfaces and Molecular Sensing by Neutron and X-ray Reflectometry”, Michael James, 7th Workshop on X-ray and Neutron Scattering Techniques for Surface Nanocharacterisation, Gwangju, Korea, 1-2 December 2009.
"Progress on Installation and Commissioning of the Pelican Time-of-Flight Polarization-Analysis Spectrometer", Dehong Yu at Workshop on Trends in Cold Neutron Time-Of-Flight spectrometers (TICn'TOF), Grenoble, France, 26-28 November 2009
"Neutron scattering in sustainable-energy materials research", Don Kearley at International Symposium on Renewable Energy Storage and Conversion Technologies, Wollongong, 18-20 November 2009 (PDF)
"Kowari - OPAL's new stress diffractometer for the engineering community: Capabilities and first results", Oliver Kirstein at 5th International Conference on Mechanical Stress Evaluation by Neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation (MECASENS-V), Mito, Japan, 10-12 November 2009
"Chemical Crystallography with Neutrons - Do the Experiment", Alison Edwards at 67th Annual Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference, Atlanta, USA, 28-31 October 2009
"Phonon Dispersion in Superionic Copper Selenide", Sergei Danilkin at 3rd International Conference on Physics of Solid State Ionics (ICPSSI-3), Kumamoto, Japan, 25-28 October 2009
"Surface and flow induced ordering of complex fluids", Bill Hamilton atAsCA'09, Joint Conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association and Chinese Crystallography Society, Beijing, China, 22-25 October 2009
"Neutron Scattering and Materials Science" Dehong Yu at International Symposium on Novel Materials and their Synthesis (NMS-V), Shanghai, China, 18-22 October 2009
"High-Speed Texture Measurement: Present Situation and Outlook", Ulf Garbe at 3rd International Conference on Texture and Anisotropy of Polycrystals (ITAP-3), Gottingen, Germany, 22-25 September 2009
"Complementary In-Situ Neutron and High-Energy X-Ray Powder Diffraction Analysis of the Phase Transformations In Titanium Aluminides", Klaus-Dieter Liss at Thermec' 2009, International Conference on Processing & Manufacturing of Advanced Materials, Berlin, Germany, 25-29 August 2009
"In-Situ Grain Studies In The Bulk Of Metals Undergoing Thermo-Mechanical Processes", Klaus-Dieter Liss at Thermec' 2009, International Conference on Processing & Manufacturing of Advanced Materials, Berlin, Germany, 25-29 August 2009
"Single-Crystal Elastic Constants of the MAX Phase Ti3AIC2 Determined by Neutron Diffraction ", Oliver Kirstein at Thermec' 2009, International Conference on Processing & Manufacturing of Advanced Materials, Berlin, Germany, 25-29 August 2009
"Liposome structure using small angle X-ray and neutron scattering (SAXS and SANS)", Robert Knott at International Conference on Neutron and X-ray Scattering ICNX-2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 29 June - 1 July 2009
"Elucidation of Novel Chemistry and Structures using Neutron Diiffraction", Alison Edwards at International Conference on Neutron Scattering (ICNS2009), Knoxville, USA, 3-7 May 2009
"First Results from the new OPAL Research Reactor in Sydney, Australia", Rob Robinson at International Conference on Neutron Scattering (ICNS2009), Knoxville, USA, 3-7 May 2009
"Neutron scattering at Opal - an Overview", Don Kearley at CRYSTAL-26, Barossa Valley, 14-17 April 2009
"Surface-induced ordering of soft matter systems", Bill Hamilton at CRYSTAL-26, Barossa Valley, 14-17 April 2009
"Structural studies of macromolecules in solution", Andrew Whitten at CRYSTAL-26, Barossa Valley, 14-17 April 2009
"Structural studies of bulk synthesized graphene", John Stride at CRYSTAL-26, Barossa Valley, 14-17 April 2009
"Neutron Scattering Science and Nanostructured Materials", Frank Klose at 1st International Conference on Nanostructured Materials and Nanocomposites (ICNM-2009), Kottayam, India, 6-8 April 2009