Platform Grant Support for Materials Characterisation at Oxford
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: Materials
Abstract
The Oxford Materials Characterisation Platform grant will primarily support a number of post-doctoral research associates on a flexible basis thus enhancing and extending our portfolio of responsive mode research proposals. The majority of the proposed platform grant funding will support key staff between fixed term contacts (in the initial instance two posts) that are funded through standard mechanisms. In addition we will also use the platform grant to pump prime a number of new research strategically important interdisiplinary research directions that are not yet sufficiently well developed for standard applications to be made. Specifically we will develop 3D confocal electron microscopy in an aberration corrected environment, advanced nanometrology and high resolution imaging (EM and NanoSIMS) of radiation sensitive soft materials. We will also make appointments to short term research and technical posts (prior to full responsive mode applications) that will support a new He ion microscope on loan and new high performance specimen preparation equipment that provides an underpinning infrastructure to many of our activities.The investigators involved in this application lead internationally recognised teams (with an outsanding publication and support record) in Electron Microscopy, Atom Probe, nanoSIMS and Nanometrology. Within each of these the above lead internationally leading groups working on; a) key materials problems in degradation mechanisms in reactor steels, carbon nanomaterials for Quantum Information Processing (QIP), catalysis, structural ceramics, biomaterials and polymers and magnetic and energy materialsb) the development of new characterisation techniques and instrumentation (High Resolution Imaging and Exit Wave reconstruction, EELS, Electron Nanodiffraction, Analytical EM, NanoSIMS, Detector Development and 3D-Atom Probe. The Materials Department at Oxford, in which the grant will be based is internationally leading and is ranked top in the UK with a 5* rating in the last 2 RAE assessments and the development of materials characterisation is central to the long term strategic direction of the department and University. Thus, overall platform grant support will enable the retention of key, highly skilled research workers through flexible funding arrangements, will initiate several new research directions, will initially support new advanced instruments and will link to our core EM facillity which provides national acess.
Publications
Allen C
(2015)
Temperature dependence of atomic vibrations in mono-layer graphene
in Journal of Applied Physics
Bakkali Taheri F
(2016)
Electron bunch profile reconstruction based on phase-constrained iterative algorithm
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Barnard AS
(2009)
Nanogold: a quantitative phase map.
in ACS nano
Beal R
(2010)
The Molecular Structure of Polymer-Fullerene Composite Solar Cells and Its Influence on Device Performance
in Macromolecules
Borisenko KB
(2015)
Photo-induced optical activity in phase-change memory materials.
in Scientific reports
Botcherby EJ
(2012)
Aberration-free three-dimensional multiphoton imaging of neuronal activity at kHz rates.
in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Britton TB
(2011)
Measurement of residual elastic strain and lattice rotations with high resolution electron backscatter diffraction.
in Ultramicroscopy
Britton TB
(2010)
Factors affecting the accuracy of high resolution electron backscatter diffraction when using simulated patterns.
in Ultramicroscopy
Chen LG
(2017)
Snapshot 3D Electron Imaging of Structural Dynamics.
in Scientific reports
Cheng C
(2014)
Polystyrene templated porous titania wells for quantum dot heterojunction solar cells.
in ACS applied materials & interfaces
Cosgriff E
(2010)
Advances in Imaging and electron Physics
D'Alfonso A
(2016)
Dose-dependent high-resolution electron ptychography
in Journal of Applied Physics
D'Alfonso A
(2014)
Deterministic electron ptychography at atomic resolution
in Physical Review B
Enterkin JA
(2010)
A homologous series of structures on the surface of SrTiO3(110).
in Nature materials
Gao S
(2017)
Electron ptychographic microscopy for three-dimensional imaging.
in Nature communications
Gonzalez-Cortes S
(2016)
Wax: A benign hydrogen-storage material that rapidly releases H2-rich gases through microwave-assisted catalytic decomposition.
in Scientific reports
Haigh SJ
(2009)
Atomic structure imaging beyond conventional resolution limits in the transmission electron microscope.
in Physical review letters
Haigh SJ
(2013)
Recording low and high spatial frequencies in exit wave reconstructions.
in Ultramicroscopy
Hashimoto A
(2012)
Three-dimensional analysis of nanoparticles on carbon support using aberration-corrected scanning confocal electron microscopy
in Applied Physics Letters
Hirsch P
(2013)
The dissociation of the [ a + c ] dislocation in GaN
in Philosophical Magazine
Hjerrild NE
(2015)
Transfer printed silver nanowire transparent conductors for PbS-ZnO heterojunction quantum dot solar cells.
in ACS applied materials & interfaces
Hong SY
(2010)
Filled and glycosylated carbon nanotubes for in vivo radioemitter localization and imaging.
in Nature materials
Kim H
(2015)
Resilient High Catalytic Performance of Platinum Nanocatalysts with Porous Graphene Envelope.
in ACS nano
Kim JS
(2015)
Formation of Klein Edge Doublets from Graphene Monolayers.
in ACS nano
Li T
(2011)
Characterization of oxidation and reduction of a platinum-rhodium alloy by atom-probe tomography
in Catalysis Today
Lozano JG
(2014)
Direct observation of depth-dependent atomic displacements associated with dislocations in gallium nitride.
in Physical review letters
Lozano-Perez S
(2009)
Multi-scale characterization of stress corrosion cracking of cold-worked stainless steels and the influence of Cr content
in Acta Materialia
Marshall GD
(2011)
Three-dimensional imaging of direct-written photonic structures.
in Optics letters
Marshall MS
(2009)
Shape transitions of epitaxial islands during strained layer growth: anatase TiO2(001) on SrTiO3(001).
in Physical review letters
Marshall MS
(2011)
Surface and defect structure of oxide nanowires on SrTiO3.
in Physical review letters
Moore KL
(2012)
Handbook of Nanoscopy
Moore KL
(2010)
NanoSIMS analysis of arsenic and selenium in cereal grain.
in The New phytologist
Mura M
(2012)
Formation mechanism for a hybrid supramolecular network involving cooperative interactions.
in Physical review letters
Mura M
(2010)
Experimental and theoretical analysis of H-bonded supramolecular assemblies of PTCDA molecules
in Physical Review B
Naresh-Kumar G
(2012)
Rapid nondestructive analysis of threading dislocations in wurtzite materials using the scanning electron microscope.
in Physical review letters
Nellist P
(2017)
Electron-optical sectioning for three-dimensional imaging of crystal defect structures
in Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing
Nellist P
(2010)
Applications of the Oxford-JEOL aberration-corrected electron microscope
in Philosophical Magazine
Neo D
(2015)
Quantum funneling in blended multi-band gap core/shell colloidal quantum dot solar cells
in Applied Physics Letters
Neo D
(2015)
Quantum funneling in blended multi-band gap core/shell colloidal quantum dot solar cells
in Applied Physics Letters
Neo DC
(2016)
Poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) as a Hole Transport Layer for Colloidal Quantum Dot Solar Cells.
in ACS applied materials & interfaces
Nicolosi V
(2010)
A facile route to self-assembled Hg//MoSI nanowire networks
in New Journal of Chemistry
Robertson A
(2014)
PbTe Nanocrystal Arrays on Graphene and the Structural Influence of Capping Ligands
in Chemistry of Materials
Robertson A
(2014)
Inflating Graphene with Atomic Scale Blisters
in Nano Letters
Robertson AW
(2014)
Stability and dynamics of the tetravacancy in graphene.
in Nano letters
Robertson AW
(2015)
Partial Dislocations in Graphene and Their Atomic Level Migration Dynamics.
in Nano letters
Robertson AW
(2014)
The role of the bridging atom in stabilizing odd numbered graphene vacancies.
in Nano letters
Schäffel F
(2011)
Atomic resolution imaging of the edges of catalytically etched suspended few-layer graphene.
in ACS nano
Stavrinadis A
(2009)
Superstructures of PbS nanocrystals in a conjugated polymer and the aligning role of oxidation.
in Nanotechnology
Description | Support for a range of PDRAs for short periods between grants and in support of co-funded awards Initiation of new scoping research projects 15 RAs supported, 5 now employed in academic posts Over 200 publications in total for RAs and Investigators during the grant period |
Exploitation Route | Characterisation of new materials |
Sectors | Education Other |
Description | JEOL UK Platform Grant |
Organisation | Jeol UK Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | JEOL UK. Joint development of instrumentation and co-funding of a postdoctoral research fellow Johnson Matthey. Characterisation of model catalyst systems |
Collaborator Contribution | JEOL UK. Joint development of instrumentation and co-funding of a postdoctoral research fellow. Johnson Matthey. Provision of model catalyst materials |
Impact | Further co-funding of research students and post-doctoral fellows Jointly developed instrumentation and characterisation methods |
Start Year | 2008 |
Description | JEOL UK Platform Grant |
Organisation | Johnson Matthey |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | JEOL UK. Joint development of instrumentation and co-funding of a postdoctoral research fellow Johnson Matthey. Characterisation of model catalyst systems |
Collaborator Contribution | JEOL UK. Joint development of instrumentation and co-funding of a postdoctoral research fellow. Johnson Matthey. Provision of model catalyst materials |
Impact | Further co-funding of research students and post-doctoral fellows Jointly developed instrumentation and characterisation methods |
Start Year | 2008 |