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Some of the applications based on conjugated polymers February 2020Conjugated polymers have attracted broad academic and industrial interest over recent years for their potential use in a range of applications. Made up of a complex configuration of carbon and hydro…

Moringa seeds November 2019One in three people cannot access clean drinking water ​​​​​​[1]. Moringa seed  extracts have been used of centuries to help purify water in regions where clean water is not available.Researchers have used neutrons and X-rays to identify …

By Martin Herrema, University of Kent

The crystal structure of bismuth vanadate is made up of two types of sub-lattice: the Bi-O sub-lattice (depicted in yellow) and the V-O sub-lattice (depicted in brown). 23 July 2019Given the ever-increasing need for cleaner, more efficient energy sources, materia…

Newly discovered multiferroic nano-clusters might help to enable the next generation of processor and memory devices 24.06.2016A team of scientists from England, Germany and France recently discovered novel so-called multiferroic clusters. Results were published as a featured article in the journa…

The wax surface on the leaves of plants, such as barley and wheat crops, acts as a protective barrier against environmental attacks including pests, and water and nutrient loss. The wax surface is also involved in the uptake and transportation of water and nutrients across the plant surface for pl…

Solar hydrogen can be produced from water and light in a process called photocatalytic water-splitting and could help to mitigate the impact of climate change, as no fossil fuels are used in its production ...

The C-D loop in transthyretin is tight in the stable T119M mutant (protective against amyloidosis). However, the same loop at the mutation site of the S52P mutant (associated with the most aggressive form of transthyretin amyloidosis) is loosened, causing degradation of the protein and misfolding…

The diffuse scattering measured from Yb₂Ti₂O₇ at 50 mK using polarised neutrons on D7 at the ILL. All the features are due to magnetism in the sample. This is a characteristic pattern from a Quantum Spin Liquid, stabilised by th…

28.01.2016Gels are materials that are present in many everyday products such as shampoos, sunscreens and food gelatin among many others. They are formed by mixtures in which large amounts of liquid, usually water, are confined within a flexible network of polymer chains or colloidal particles. Amo…

10.04.2013Research at Birkbeck, University of London uses world-leading neutron sources at ILL and ISIS to demonstrate ozone attacks on lung surface fluidsA research team from Birkbeck and Royal Holloway Colleges at the University of London, and Uppsala University in Sweden, have helped explain ho…