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11 January 2022

Formulating engine lubricants for modern fuels and hardware

Lubrizol has used small angle neutron scattering at ISIS to learn more about how additives neutralise a type of acid formed in engine lubricant that is more common when biofuels are used. Inside an engine, acidic species form that can damage the engine. To prevent this damage, the oil used for lubrication contains detergents that are 'overbased' to neutralise these acids.

The unit cell, with the top and bottom arrows pointing in one direction and the central arrow pointing the opposite way.

13 December 2021

Rare coupling of electronic and lattice degrees of freedom observed

Visual overview of the tribometer. (a) Diagonal view of the tribometer in the lowered position. (b) A schematic of the roller and substrate at the centre of the tribometer. The red and blue arrows depict the approximate paths for the neutron and X-ray beams respectively.

09 December 2021

Infineum commissions new sample environment to study engine oil components

Imran Rahman loading the ammonite onto IMAT

08 December 2021

Neutron imaging reveals never-before-seen 3D muscle structure in rare Jurassic ammonite fossil

06 December 2021

Unlocking the secrets of soil through time-of-flight neutron imaging and X-ray techniques

CH3NH3PbBr3 single crystal with engulfed Gd2O3 foil

13 September 2021

Photovoltaic perovskites can detect neutrons

Layers of graphite with surfactant layers and adsorbed methyl blue.

26 August 2021

A simpler, more effective, route to cleaner water

26 August 2021

How crumpling helmets protected Samurai warriors from bullets

25 August 2021

Layering Up

24 August 2021

Maximising beamtime using applied statistics

A graphic showing the surfactant solution and the different micellular forms in it.

20 August 2021

Investigating silica-surfactant interactions: when two techniques are better than one

09 July 2021

Designing toothpastes that are kinder to gums

A square with a hole in, with the hole labelled as a coolant pipe and interlayer surrounding.

21 June 2021

Quality control method for fusion component design

Ball and stick model of the sulfobetaine, showing the hydrogen bonding.

06 June 2021

Zwitterions as protein repellents

28 May 2021

Neutrons enable the distinction between single-k and multi-k structures

Machine learning approach to muon spectroscopy analysis

25 May 2021

Researchers develop algorithm to see inside materials with subatomic particles

14 May 2021

Can nanomagnetism be exploited for AI tasks?

The research team with beamline scientist Sarah Rogers (left) and group lead Wuge Briscoe (right).

12 May 2021

Self-assembling surfactants organise into fractal formations

11 May 2021

Discovering ion pairing in alkalide solutions

Graphical diagram of the SANS experiments and the microstructures of the systems. DOI: 10.1039/D1RA00755F

23 April 2021

Studying suncream using SANS

The crystal structure in a ball and stick format, based around a tetrahedral oxygen atom bonded to hydrogen atoms which are then hydrogen bonded out.

26 March 2021

Learning from meteorites to improve bone replacements

A framework structure of MFM-300 materials for gas separation Sihai Yang, University of Manchester

22 March 2021

Feature article: investigations into porous materials

09 March 2021

Simulated moon dust on ChipIr

$The neutron diffraction patterns are overlaid, showing the differences, and different sections of the ball and stick diagram of the structure are highlighted to correspond to the different structures.$

18 February 2021

Neutron experiments confirm the existence of new form of ice

29 January 2021

Noncollinear magnetic order of a new magnetoelectric material determined by neutron diffraction

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