Disordered Materials
The Disordered Materials group operates three neutron time-of-flight diffractometers for the fundamental and applied study of disordered and complex materials using total scattering. These instruments are SANDALS and GEM (co-operated with the Crystallography group) on Target Station 1, and NIMROD on Target Station 2. The group also runs two PANalytical X-ray diffractometers with Ag and Mo sources, and which are optimised for PDF measurements.
The group specialises in the analysis of total scattering data covering multiple length scales ranging from the atomic up to the nanoscopic regimes, and provides structural insights in to problems in chemistry, physics, materials science, and biology. To this end we support an extensive suite of data reduction and analysis tools, covering the processing of raw neutron data, analysis of target systems through Monte Carlo refinement of the data, and the subsequent extraction of structural properties.
