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Stochastic Cation Dynamics in Photovoltaic Hybrid Perovskites under Pressure
Methylammonium lead iodide (MAPI) is one the most promising materials for photovoltaics. Notwithstanding the above, access to its phase diagram and the underlying structural... -
Dynamics of Ethylene Glycol based Deep Eutectic Solvents: Effect of Cations
Deep eutectic solvents (DES) formed from a mixture of hydrogen-bond donors and metal salts, is a novel variety of solvents that have been synthesized and studied extensively. In... -
Comparison of Dynamical Behaviour in MAPbX3 and FAPbX3: How Do They Differ ?
Organic-inorganic lead halide perovskite compounds are shown to be very promising candidates for low cost, solution-processable, highly efficient (>22%) solar cells with a... -
Investigation of modulated crystal and magnetic structure of Ni-Pt-Mn-Ga ferr...
Ferromagnetic shape memory alloys (FSMAs) are of recent interest because they exhibit a shapememory effect that can be driven by magnetic fields. Thus, FSMAs are important for... -
The Local Structure of Doped α - Tricalcium Phosphate
The biomaterial potential of many calcium phosphates, such as hydroxyapatites and tricalcium phosphates (Ca3(PO4)2, TCP hereafter), have led to much literature attention over... -
How do rotational motions alter the local potential of nanoscopic molecules? ...
C60 represents the prototypical case study for a highly geometric nanoscopic entity that exhibits exotic dynamical and thermodynamic transitions. Yet little in general is known... -
Structural Investigations of Mixed-anion Argyrodites
Argyrodites exhibit promising thermoelectric (TE) properties but a structural transition causes cracking of ingots on cooling to ambient temperature, introducing problems for... -
Structural and magnetic characterisation of polar magnetic perovskite-based m...
A new generation of low-power high-density information storage would be enabled by the development of ?multiferroic? materials which function at or above room temperature. Such... -
What is the Room Temperature Structure of NaTaO3?
The current proposal seeks to establish the origin of t non-perovskite-like peak splitting observed in HRPD data for NaTaO3. It is our hypothesis that this is a result of the... -
Magnetic excitations in square lattice 2D Heisenberg Antiferromagnet Sr3Fe2O6.5
Strontium iron oxides belonging to the RP series Srn+1FenO3n+1 (n = 1, 2, ..,1) may offer unique insights into the differences between the magnetic properties of the... -
Exploring Structural and Spin Orders in the Quantum Spin Liquid Candidate Znx...
Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are intriguing states of matter in which magnetic frustration and strong quantum fluctuations prevent classical long-range magnetic order. To date,... -
Configurational and displacive disorder in the cubic NTE material Cd(CN)2
Cubic cadmium(II) cyanide shows the most pronounced isotropic NTE effect known, with behaviour more than twice as extreme as that of better known materials such as ZrW2O8. This... -
Long-range cationic ordering in metal-organic perovskite solid solutions
The structure of the metal guanadinium formates is analogous to perovskite; the Cu compound is of particular interest as a potential multiferroic. We have recently demonstrated... -
Investigations of amorphous pharmaceutical materials produced from different ...
Pharmaceuticals are usually formulated in the crystalline state for obvious reasons of stability. They may also exist in a disordered and less cohesive state i.e. amorphous... -
Phase Separation in NaTaO3. Can it be controlled by pressure?
The present proposal seeks to establish the pressure dependence of the Pbnm-Cmcm transition in NaTaO3 and some doped variants thereof. It aims to understand the understand the... -
A total scattering study of the phase transitions in the hybrid organic-inorg...
Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites are interesting candidates for a range of applications, from solar cells to light emitting diodes and lasers. For the latter applications... -
Paramagnetic excitations in NaFe0.53Cu0.47As
NaFe0.53Cu0.47As is an antiferromagnetic Mott insulator which connects unconventional superconductivity and Mott physics. The magnetic fluctuations in the ordered state has been... -
Field-induced transition in a brownmillerite
The objective of this proposal is to solve the field-induced magnetic structure of a newly synthesized brownmillerite. Under normal conditions there are three different magnetic... -
Single crystal diffraction as a tool for the interpretation of the phonon spe...
A reliable spectroscopic assignment of the high-frequency proton modes in CsH2PO4 (CDP) is possible only within the framework of the fully ordered proton, low-temperature P21... -
Studies of Diffusion of Adsorbed Gas Molecules in a Porous MOF by QENS
We request 6 days on IRIS to study the diffusion of adsorbed gas molecules (H2, CH4, C2H2, C2H4, C2H6) within a functional porous metal-organic framework (MOF) as a function of...
