Scientific highlights

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

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

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

Tuning 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

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