A NEW HIGH-THROUGHPUT DIFFRACTOMETER FOR SOLID-STATE CHEMISTRY
Lead Research Organisation:
Heriot-Watt University
Department Name: Sch of Engineering and Physical Science
Abstract
The scattering of X-ray radiation from solids provides the principal means of characterising new materials. The diffraction pattern that results, provides both a fingerprint that identifies a substance and contains detailed information on the way that the atoms within the solid are arranged. Recent advances in instrumentation have led to improvements in resolution, allowing subtle structural variations to be probed, whilst significantly reducing the rate of data acquisition, often to the order of minutes. We propose to exploit such developments to carry out detailed structural studies on complex systems, to investigate large numbers of small samples, arising from parallel synthesis programmes and to collect multiple data sets to follow structural changes with increasing temperature. The capacity to collect such data is critical to our efforts to establish new research programmes that will produce a range of technologically important materials and lead to the development of parallel approaches to materials discovery, in which large number of reactions can be carried out simultaneously. These programmes will lead to new materials for use in information storage systems, materials for production of power generators capable of using waste heat, materials for construction of CFC-free cooling devices with no moving parts, or materials that combine multiple functions, such as optical transparency or porosity at the molecular scale with semiconductivity .
Organisations
Publications
Ewing S
(2013)
Polymorphism and optical properties in [NH4][InSe2]
in Journal of Solid State Chemistry
Ewing S
(2012)
Solvothermal Synthesis of One-dimensional Chalcogenides Containing Group 13 Elements
in Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie
Ewing S
(2011)
Hydrothermal synthesis of [C6H16N2][In2Se3(Se2)]: A new one-dimensional indium selenide
in Journal of Solid State Chemistry
Ewing SJ
(2012)
[C7H10N][In3Se5]: a layered selenide with two indium coordination environments.
in Inorganic chemistry
Leyva-Bailen P
(2009)
Ionothermal synthesis of the mixed-anion material, Ba3Cl4CO3
in Journal of Solid State Chemistry
Powell A
(2009)
Co 3 (SO 4 ) 3 (OH) 2 [enH 2 ]: A New S = 3/2 Kagome-Type Layered Sulfate with a Unique Connectivity
in Chemistry of Materials
Powell A
(2011)
Solvothermal synthesis of a bimetallic thiometallate containing germanium in two oxidation states
in Journal of Solid State Chemistry
Szkoda I
(2009)
Compositional control of electrical transport properties in the new series of defect thiospinels, Ga1-xGexV4S8-d (0=x=1)
in Journal of Solid State Chemistry
Vaqueiro P
(2009)
Ternary erbium chromium sulfides: structural relationships and magnetic properties.
in Inorganic chemistry
Description | Structural characterisation of a range of magnetic and electronic materials. Development of high-throughput approaches to materials discovery. |
Exploitation Route | Fundamental studies of materials. |
Sectors | Chemicals Energy |