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New Academic Director (Dr Mark Senn)

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce that Dr Mark Senn has taken over from Professor Richard Walton as academic director of the X-ray facility. Richard has been involved with the RTP since it was founded in 2014 and we thank him for all the hard work that he has put in over the years.

Case Study: Developing coatings for spacecraft equipment

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:11:00 GMT

The X-ray Diffraction facility worked with Teer Coatings Ltd, a specialist manufacturer of surface coatings, on their project to understand the antimicrobial and aging properties of coatings for spacecraft equipment using Small Angle X-ray Scattering.

UK national facility poised to expand use of state-of-the-art electron diffraction

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 09:08:00 GMT

World-class centre for single crystal electron diffraction will be UK first

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 14:47:00 GMT

First paper published from our laboratory XAFS spectrometer

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 18:20:45 GMT

Paper from Louis Piper and co-workers to enable optimisation of metal oxide battery cathodes: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.2c09937

Paper of the Month

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 13:00:00 GMT

B. Leforestier, M. R. Gyton & A. B. Chaplin, Oxidative addition of a mechanically entrapped C(sp)–C(sp) bond to a rhodium(I) pincer complex

Paper of the Month

Sat, 05 Sep 2020 10:25:00 GMT

M. C. Hatnean, O. A. Petrenko, M. R. Lees, T. E. Orton & G. Balakrishnan, Optical Floating Zone Crystal Growth of Rare-Earth Disilicates,R₂Si₂O₇(R = Er, Ho, and Tm)

X-ray Facility Open for Users

Thu, 18 Jun 2020 09:54:00 GMT

The X-ray facility is open and ready for our users. Please click on the link for more details on how to access the Facility post-lockdown.

Paper of the Month

Mon, 04 May 2020 08:44:00 GMT

D. S. Cook, M. R. Lees, J. M. Fisher, D. Thompsett & R. I. Walton, Ga_2.52V_2·48O_7·33(OH)_0.67, a synthetic member of the nolanite/akdalaite-type family of oxyhydroxides containing trivalent vanadium

Paper of the Month

Thu, 23 Apr 2020 09:25:00 GMT

Z. Luo, Z. Liu, D. Walker, S. Huband, P. A. Thomas, N. Zhang, W. Ran & Z.-G. Ye, Meso- to Nano-scopic Domain Structures in High Curie-Temperature Piezoelectric BiScO₃-PbTiO₃ Single Crystals of Complex Perovskite Structure