Liquid Structure

Current research activities:

• Determination of the microscopic structure of disordered materials using diffraction methods and computer modelling (primarily Reverse Monte Carlo, RMC). Systems studied include:
  • Covalent glasses, such as simple oxide glasses, multi-component borosilicate based glasses and chalcogenide glasses.
  • Metallic glasses (amorphous metallic alloys).
  • Simple molecular liquids.
  • Aqueous solutions.
• Atomic and magnetic structure of nano- and microcrystalline oxide materials.
• Residual stress and texture investigations, using high resolution neutron diffraction.
• Development of the Reverse Monte Carlo method of structural modelling.

Instrumentation:

• PSD two-axis neutron diffractometer with position sensitive detectors.
• MTEST neutron diffractometer.
• NRAD neutron radiography station, in cooperation with the KFKI Atomic Energy Research Institute.