Webinar on Clean Energy research at ISIS
For the ISIS proposal call with deadline 20 April 2026 we are having a particular focus on the benefits of neutron and muon techniques for Clean Energy research. If you've not used these techniques before but are involved in materials studies relevant to Clean Energy, the webinar will give an introduction to relevant neutron and muon methods and the problems they can solve.
Webinar: Materials studies for clean energy: how neutron and muon techniques can help
Webinar date: Thursday 12 February 2026
Webinar times: 2pm - 3.30pm
Outline webinar programme:
2.00pm: Welcome, and introduction to the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source - Martin Jones, ISIS Energy Materials Coordinator
2.15pm: Neutron diffraction applications - Tom Wood, ISIS Energy Materials Research Fellow
2.30pm: Neutron spectroscopy applications - Svemir Rudic, ISIS Spectroscopy Scientist
2.45pm: Neutron imaging and engineering applications - ISIS Imaging Scientist
3.00pm: Muon applications: Peter Baker, ISIS Muon Scientist
3.15pm: Applying for time at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source - Emma Gozzard, ISIS User Programme Manager
3.25pm: Q&A
3.35pm: Meeting ends.
Please
use this link to register for the webinar.
How does ISIS support Clean Energy research?
Energy and Clean Growth is an area of enormous social, political and economic significance, in which scientific research has a transformative role. This is reflected in this area’s proportionally significant academic and industrial use of ISIS, the large fraction of ISIS science staff involved, and the number of ISIS Impact Awards. We enable many research activities that support the UK Government’s Clean Energy Sector Plan and the Advanced Manufacturing sector of the Industrial Strategy. This includes battery technologies, wind, nuclear fission, fusion energy, carbon capture usage and storage, hydrogen and ammonia storage, fuel cells and heat pumps, alongside solar and bioenergy production.
Neutron and muon techniques have critical capabilities relevant to clean energy material study and development:
- The ability to observe light elements including hydrogen, lithium, oxygen; and the ability to see these in the presence of heavy elements.
- Penetration of neutrons and muons into samples allows the study of large or delicate components
- The penetrating ability of neutrons means complex sample environment can be used
- In-situ and in-operando studies are possible
- The quantitative study of the dynamics of matter
- An ability to image components and materials in three dimensions from the atomic through to macroscopic lengthscales
Key contacts for Clean Energy research at ISIS
If you have a question about how neutron or muon methods at ISIS might be useful for your research, please contact any of those listed below.
Review articles on neutron and muon use for energy materials
Neutron and muon characterisation techniques for battery materials: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2TA07235A
Accelerating Battery Characterization Using Neutron and Synchrotron Techniques: Toward a Multi-Modal and Multi-Scale Standardized Experimental Workflow: https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202102694
Neutron imaging of lithium batteries: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2021.12.007
Neutron scattering and hydrogen storage: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1369-7021(09)70299-8
Neutron scattering and heterogeneous catalysis: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00101
Light-weight solid-state hydrogen storage materials characterized by neutron scattering: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925838821046648
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