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 2010
"Neutron Scattering and First Principles Studies of Hydrogen Storage in Cu3(1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate)2", Vanessa Peterson, at Pacifichem 2010, Honolulu, USA, 15-20 December 2010
"Dynamical coupling between hydration water and proteins explored by neutron scattering", Katy Wood, at Pacifichem 2010, Honolulu, USA, 15-20 December 2010
"Food Structure and Dynamics - What are the Opportunities for X-Ray and Neutron Scattering", Elliot Gilbert at 3rd International Symposium on Materials Chemistry (ISMC-2010), Trombay, India, 7-11 December 2010
"Determination of the symmetry of the ferroelectric phase of SrTi18O3 from lattice dynamics calculations", Don Kearley at 3rd Workshop on ab-initio phonon calculations, Cracow, Poland, 1-4 December 2010
"Methods of high-throughput crystal chemical analysis for discovery of new battery materials", Maxim Avdeev at International Conference on the Advancement of Materials and Technology (ICAMN II 2010), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 29 November - 1 December 2010
"Novel Spintronic Materials Investigated with Polarised Neutrons", Frank Klose, at 1st Taiwan Neutron Users' Meeting, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 26 November 2010
"Cold Neutron Science at Australia's OPAL Reactor", Michael James at International HANARO Symposium 2010, Daejeon, Korea, 1-2 November 2010
"Laue diffraction from spin-polarised protons: a new tool for neutron protein crystallography?", Garry McIntyre at 10th Conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA2010), Busan, Korea, 31 October - 3 November 2010
"Molecular sensing using fluorescent dendrimer films and neutron reflectometry", Michael James at 10th Conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA2010), Busan, Korea, 31 October - 3 November 2010
"Novel spintronic materials investigated with polarized neutron scattering", Frank Klose at International Conference on Recent Trends in Materials Science and Technology (ICMST 2010), Tivandrum, India, 29-31 October 2010
"Texture Refinement using a Rietveld Strategy", Saurabh Kabra at International Workshop on Structural Integrity & Materials Behaviour at Micro and Nano Scales (SMMN 2010) , Brisbane, 25-27 October 2010
"Analysis of metal formation using neutron and synchrotron radiation", Klaus-Dieter Liss at International Workshop on Structural Integrity & Materials Behaviour at Micro and Nano Scales (SMMN 2010) , Brisbane, 25-27 October 2010
"The Role of Neutron Scattering in the Development of Materials for Nano Medicine Applications", Frank Klose at BIT Life Sciences' 1st Annual Nanomedicine Conference, Beijing, China, 23-25 October 2010
"Theoretical and Experimental Methods of Characterizing Transport Pathways in Ionic Conductors", Maxim Avdeev, at International Conference on Material Science and Technology (ICMST-2010), Jakarta, Indonesia, 19-22 October 2010
"Neutron Scattering Techniques for Solid State Ionics", Sergei Danilkin, at International Conference on Material Science and Technology (ICMST-2010), Jakarta, Indonesia, 19-22 October 2010
"Exploration of Materials Science by the Neutron Scattering Technique", Rob Robinson, at International Conference on Material Science and Technology (ICMST-2010), Jakarta, Indonesia, 19-22 October 2010
"Battery Research using Neutron Scattering", Neeraj Sharma, at the International Conference on Material Science and Technology (ICMST-2010), Jakarta, Indonesia, 19-22 October 2010
"Neutron Scattering Application to Advanced Materials", Michael James at 3rd Asia-Oceania Neutron Scattering Association Neutron School, Mumbai, India, 4-9 October 2010
"Energy Storage in Batteries", Don Kearley, at Neutrons for Global Energy Solutions (NGES 2010), Bonn, Germany, 26-29 September 2010
"Hierarchical Organisation in Cellulosic Materials - Scattering Studies", Chris Garvey, at Second International Conference on Natural Polymers & Biomaterials (ICNP 2010) , Kottayam, India, 24-26 September 2010
"In-situ characterisation of phase transformations in TiAl alloys", Klaus-Dieter Liss at Materials Science and Engineering Conference (MSE-2010), Darmstadt, Germany, 24-26 August 2010
"Recent Advances in Spintronic Materials", Frank Klose at International Union of Materials Research Societies - International Conference on Electronic Materials 2010 (IUMRS-ICEM2010), Seoul, Korea, 22-27 August 2010
"Neutron Scattering Facilities at OPAL, the New Research Reactor in Sydney", Dehong Yu at 16th International Conference on Crystal Growth/14th International Conference on Vapor Growth and Epitaxy (ICCG-16/ICVGE-14), Beijing, China, 8-13 August 2010
"First Scientific Results from the New OPAL Research Reactor in Sydney, Australia", Rob Robinson at 7th Pacific Rim International Conference on Advanced Materials and Processing (PRICM-7), Cairns, 1-5 August 2010
"Neutron scattering: a natural tool for food science and technology research", Elliot Gilbert at 2010 Institute of Food Technologists' Food Executive Leadership Forum, Chicago, USA, 17 July 2010
"Reflectometry on Bio-membranes with Polarised Neutrons", Stephen Holt at Polarized Neutrons in Condensed Matter Investigations 2010, Delft, Netherlands, 5-8 July 2010
"Thermo-mechanical Processing in a Synchrotron Beam - from Simple Metals to Multiphase Alloys and Intermetallics", Klaus-Dieter Liss at 18th International Conference on Composites or Nano Engineering (ICCE-18), Anchorage, USA, 4-10 July 2010
"Thermomechanical processing in a synchrotron beam", Klaus-Dieter Liss at 4th International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth, Sheffield, UK, 4-9 July 2010
"Neutron Scattering Study of Disorder, Diffusion and Lattice Dynamics in Copper Chalcogenides", Sergei Danilkin at 3rd International Conference on Functional Materials and Devices (ICFMD-2010), Terengganu, Malaysia, 14-17 June 2010
"Neutrons go where other particles fear to tread…Characterisation of advanced materials using neutrons from the OPAL research reactor", Michael James at CSIRO Conference on Advanced Materials, Melbourne, 10-12 May, 2010
"Application of Neutron Scattering to Research Problems in the Field of Biophysical Chemistry ", Chris Garvey at Australian Biophysical Chemistry Workshop, Adelaide, 6-10 April 2010
"Energy Materials Research using Neutron Scattering: An Australian Perspective", Rob Robinson at Spring 2010, Meeting of the Materials Research Society, San Francisco, USA, 5-9 April 2010
"Sustainable Energy Research using Neutrons: Recent Neutron Scattering Research at OPAL", Vanessa Peterson at 2010 Spring Annual Meeting of the International Center for Diffraction Data, Philadelphia, USA, 16-19 March, 2010
"Deuterated Protein Expression: Lessons learned and strategies implemented at the National Deuteration Facility", Anthony Duff at Queensland Protein Symposium 2010, Brisbane, 2-4 March 2010
"Studies of Nanoscale Thin Films and Surfaces using Neutron Reflectometry", Michael James at International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2010, Sydney, 22-26 February, 2010
"Developments towards wide-angle polarization analysis in ANSTO", Hal Lee at Workshop on Wide Angle Polarisation Analysis in Neutron Scattering, Paris, France, 22 February 2010
"Electrical Double layers in Ionic Liquids studied by Neutron and X-ray Reflectometry", Andrew Nelson at 34th Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, Auckland, New Zealand, 2-5 February 2010
"The World of Wombat: a Review of High-speed Neutron Diffraction at the OPAL Research Reactor", Andrew Studer at 34th Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, Auckland, New Zealand, 2-5 February 2010