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A diverse mix of research takes place at our facility, generating impact on a local, national and global scale. Find out more by reading some of the highlights below.

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14 May 2021

Can nanomagnetism be exploited for AI tasks?

Emergent properties of a nanomagnetic system have potential to be harnessed for artificial intelligence tasks, like speech recognition. In biology, cells group together to form tissues, which group to form an organ. The organs form an organ system, which then helps carry out the life functions of the complete organism.

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

The crystal structure, showing the octahedral sites.

20 January 2021

New solid-state battery material for next generation batteries

Don Fleming and Abdel Jawad on the EMU instrument.

15 January 2021

Quantum tunnelling plays a major role in muonium reactions with larger alkanes

15 December 2020

ISIS beamlines help Unilever develop biodegradable products

Figure 1: Time resolved horizontal orthogonal slices of the LS 14250 cell discharged with 8 mA visualising the lithium diffusion from the lithium metal electrode in the liquid SOCl2 cathode.

10 November 2020

Investigating battery performance and lifetime at IMAT

$(a) Stress-strain curves of a 〈001〉-oriented Co-Ni-Ga crystal, solution heat treated (lower hysteresis) and subsequently aged (upper hysteresis), under compressive load at 100 °C. Spheroidal nanometric particles formed after aging are shown by the HRTEM image in the inset. (b,c) In situ neutron diffraction analysis of the solution heat treated (b) and aged (c) material at -3% compressive strain during the loading path as marked by the red points in (a).$

27 October 2020

Nano-particles´ influence – How shape memory alloys behave under stress