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Highlights 2013

Magnetism of battery materials

(August 2013)
Max Avdeev, Chris Ling, H.B. Yahia, H. Kobayashi, M. Shikano and P. Barpanda

 

New Deuterated Phospholipids with Unsaturated and Branched Alkyl Chains from the National Deuteration Facility.

(January 2013)
Tamim Darwish, Nageshwar Rao Yepuri, Greta Moraes, Marie Gillon, Peter Holden and Michael James
 

Highlights 2012 

Giant Magnetoelastic Effect in a 5d Transition-Metal Oxide.

(September 2012)
Wojciech Miiller, Qingdi Zhou, Brendan Kennedy, Siegbert Schmid, Peter Blanchard, Chris Ling, Maxim Avdeev, Neeraj Sharma, Ramzi Kutteh, Gordon Kearley and Kevin Knight

 

Ferroelectric Charge Order Stabilized by Antiferromagnetism in Multiferroic LuFe2O4.

(August 2012)
Annemieke Mulders, Maciej Bartkowiak, James Hester, Ekaterina Pomjakushina and Kazimierz Conder

 

Using Neutron Reflectometry to Determine the Location of Antimicrobial Peptides from Australian Frogs in Model Biological Membranes.

(April 2012)
David Fernandez, Thomas Whitwell, Frances Separovic, Anton Le Brun, Paramjit Bansal and Michael James

 

Simultaneous Measurement of Structure and Viscosity Changes during Starch Cooking.

(March 2012)
James Doutch, Mark Bason, Ferdi Franceschini, Kevin James, Douglas Clowes and Elliot Gilbert
 

Highlights 2011

Role of Residual Stresses in Rail Squat Formation.

(November 2011)
Sarvesh Pal, William  Daniel, Andrej Atrens, Vladimir Luzin and Malcom Kerr

 

Investigating the Morphology and Stability of Thin-Film Organic Light Emitting Diodes.

(September 2011)
Arthur Smith, Jeremy Ruggles, Hamish Cavaye, Paul Shaw, Ian Gentle, Paul Burn, Tamim Darwish, and Michael James

 

Strain-Scanning Measurements of OPAL Cold-Neutron-Source Vacuum-Containment Welds.

(May 2011)
Marty Jones, Warren Brown, Vladimir Luzin, Phil Bendeich and Michael Law

 

High-Temperature Magnetism in CaTcO3 and SrTcO3.

(March 2011)
Max Avdeev, Melody Carter, Gordon Thorogood, Tony Cheetham, Brendan Kennedy, Jimmy Ting, Anna Llobet,

Frederic Poineau, Efrain Rodriguez, Ram Seshadri, David Singh and Kia Wallwork
 

Highlights 2010 

Artificially Modulated Chemical Order in Thin Films: A Different Approach to Creating Ferromagnetic-Antiferromagnetic Interfaces.

(October 2010)
Thomas Saerbeck, Frank Klose, Anton Stampfl, Sergey Danilkin, Mohana Yethiraj, Dieter Lott, Andreas Schreyer, Gary Mankey, Zhihong Lu, Patrick LeClair and Wolfgang Schmidt

 

Producing Deuterated Oleic Acid at the National Deuteration Facility.

(August 2010)
Tamim Darwish, Emily Luks, and Marie Gillon

 

Real-time Observations of Structural Changes in a Commercial Li-ion Battery.

(June 2010)
Neeraj Sharma, Vanessa Peterson, Hui-Chia Su, Chih-Wei Hu and Chih-Hao Lee

 

Solid-state Dendrimer Sensors: Probing the Diffusion of an Explosive Analogue using Neutron Reflectometry and in-situ Photoluminescence Spectroscopy.

(May 2010)
Hamish Cavaye, Arthur Smith, Michael James, Andrew Nelson, Paul Burn, Ian Gentle, S.-C. Lo and Paul Meredith
 

Highlights 2009 

Observation of Soft Phonon Modes in Superionic Copper Selenide - First experiment on our TAIPAN Thermal 3-Axis Spectrometer.

(December 2009)
Sergey Danilkin, Mohana Yethiraj and Don Kearley

 

Negative Thermal Expansion in Porous Frameworks.

(0ctober 2009)
Vanessa Peterson, Don Kearley, Yue Wu, Timmy Ramirez-Cuesta, Ewout Kemner and Cameron Kepert

 

Platypus Untangles the Structure of Microphase Separated Diblock Copolymer Thin Films.

(June 2009)
Chiara Neto, Wilasinee Sriprom, Andew Telford, Sebastien Perrier, Michael James and Andrew Nelson

 

Effects on Fracture Behaviour in a Welded Branch Connection.

(March 2009)
Michael Law, Vladimir Luzin and Oliver Kirstein
 

 Highlights 2008  
 Turning Negative Thermal Expansion.

(November 2008)
Samuel Duyker, Vanessa Peterson and Cameron Kepert

 

Directional Atomic Rearrangements During Transformations Between the α and γ-Phases in Titanium Aluminides.

(August 2008)
Klaus-Dieter Liss, Andreas Stark, Arno Bartels, Helmut Clemens, Thomas Buslaps, Dominic Phelan and LaReine Yeoh

 

A study of thin-film structures, important for spin-electronics applications, found that chemical ordering process is causing magnetic exchange bias.

(April 2008)
Dieter Lott, Frank Klose, Hailemariam Ambaye, Gary Mankey, Prakash Mani, Max Wolff, Andreas Schreyer, Hans Christiansen and Brian Sales

 

 Highlights 2007 
 Zener double exchange and charge ordering in magnetite: new insights in electronic conductivity.

(November 2007)
Rob McQueeney, Mohana Yethiraj, Wouter Montfrooij, Toby Perring, George Honig and Patti Metcalf

 

X-ray and neutron scattering reveal synaptic arrangement of the neuroligin/beta-neurexin complex.

(October 2007)
Davide Comoletti, Alexander Grishaev, Andrew Whitten, Igor Tsigelny, Palmer Taylor and Jill Trewhella

 

Free-liquid surfaces can now be studied with our X-ray reflectometer.

(September 2007)
Andrew Nelson and Tracey Hanley

 

First experiments with 7T cryomagnet.

(May 2007)
Wayne Hutchison, Darren Goossens, Glen Stewart, Katsuhiko Nishimura, Andrew Studer and Maxim Avdeev

 

Orbital dynamics of the 4f shell in DyB2C2 studied using inelastic neutron sacttering.

(May 2007)
Urs Staub, Annemieke Mulders, Oksana Zaharko, Stefan Janssen, Tetsuya Nakamura and Stephen Lovesey

 

Structural characterisation of resistant starch fractions from extruded maize, a study important for gut health and the prevention of several diseases.
 (April 2007)

Amparo Lopez-Rubio and Elliot Gilbert