We are pleased to announce that Dr Mark SennLink opens in a new window has taken over from Professor Richard Walton Link opens in a new windowas academic director of the X-ray facility. Richard has been involved with the RTP since it was founded in 2014 and we thank him for all the hard work that he has put in over the years.

The X-ray Diffraction facility worked with Teer Coatings Ltd, a specialist manufacturer of surface coatings, on their project to understand the antimicrobial and aging properties of coatings for spacecraft equipment using Small Angle X-ray Scattering.

Paper from Louis Piper and co-workers to enable optimisation of metal oxide battery cathodes: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.2c09937

B. Leforestier, M. R. Gyton & A. B. Chaplin, Oxidative addition of a mechanically entrapped C(sp)–C(sp) bond to a rhodium(I) pincer complex

M. C. Hatnean, O. A. Petrenko, M. R. Lees, T. E. Orton & G. Balakrishnan, Optical Floating Zone Crystal Growth of Rare-Earth Disilicates,R₂Si₂O₇(R = Er, Ho, and Tm)

The X-ray facility is open and ready for our users. Please click on the link for more details on how to access the Facility post-lockdown.

D. S. Cook, M. R. Lees, J. M. Fisher, D. Thompsett & R. I. Walton, Ga_2.52V_2·48O_7·33(OH)_0.67, a synthetic member of the nolanite/akdalaite-type family of oxyhydroxides containing trivalent vanadium