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Professor So Iwata, who leads the Membrane Protein Laboratory at Diamond Light Source and is also a professor at Imperial College London, has been awarded the Gregori Aminoff prize in crystallography for 2010.
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BBSRC is planning to award one Diamond Professorial Research Fellowship to be located in the Research Complex at Harwell
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Hydrogen is difficult to store or transport with current technology. Hydrogen gas has good energy density by weight, but poor energy density by volume compared to the hydrocarbons used currently to power cars. In principle, hydrogen requires a larger tank than petrol to store the same energy, making it a less practical alternative in volumetric terms. One approach to improve the energy density of gaseous hydrogen is by storing the gas at higher pressures. This requires material and design ...
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Many nanotechnology and biotechnology applications rely on how tiny metal particles arrange themselves on flat surfaces. These patterned structures on the nanometre scale are of great importance in making novel electronic, magnetic and photonic devices. Therefore being able to accurately characterise them is vital. However, this can be very challenging and sometimes requires several different techniques to find the detailed shape and chemical composition of the nanoparticles. A group of ...
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On Tuesday 1st September the Lord Lieutenant of Surrey, Mrs Sarah Goad JP, took part in an innovative science and art project to launch the involvement of the UK’s national synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, in the British Science Festival, which opens in Surrey this weekend.
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Understanding the deformation of polycrystalline structural materials is the key to improving performance and reliability of complex engineering components and systems. The interaction between grains in the metal and how they behave under stress is vital to determining the strength of a component and how it will deform. However capturing full details of polycrystalline deformation is a significant challenge, partly because of the sheer volume of information involved, and partly due to the ...
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Transition metal oxides are an intriguing class of materials since it is possible to drastically modify their properties by changing their temperature, applying a magnetic field or simply by irradiating them with light. Of particular interest are the manganites that exhibit complex interactions bewteen the spin and and orbital degrees of freedom. To fully understand the nature of this delicate balance between the different phases of the same material it is crucial to exploit the versatility ...
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Professor So Iwata, an Imperial College London scientist, has been awarded the first ever ‘Diamond Fellowship’ of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
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On Friday 26th June, the first turf was cut to make way for the latest experimental station to be added to the UK’s national synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source.
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Kicking off on Tuesday 30th June, Diamond had a busy week in London with a presence at two of the biggest science events in the city.
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Diamond Light Source’s intense X-rays are helping researchers to refine their methods to better preserve the famous Tudor warship known as the Mary Rose. Raised from the seabed in October 1982, 437 years after she capsized and sank, the Mary Rose is the only 16th century warship on display anywhere in the world.
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London: A special family of antimicrobials called quinolones is currently used to treat virulent bacteria responsible for some of the most dangerous diseases such as pneumonia and meningitis.
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The impact earthquakes have on the planet’s surface is well documented. However, much less is known about what happens deep in the planet’s interior. An international group of researchers have been using the Extreme Conditions beamline at Diamond Light Source to study the mineral ferropericlase, thought to be the second most abundant mineral in the Earth’s lower mantle, over 300 miles (670 km) below the surface of the planet. Understanding what happens to ferropericlase in the high ...
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Diamond is taking part in this year's Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, showcasing the accelerator physics behind the facility and the outputs of an innovative science and art initiative.
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From Tuesday 30th June to Thursday 2nd July, over 700 science writers and communicators will gather in London for the 2009 World Conference of Science Journalists (WCSJ).
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What are the basic physical principles behind the Diamond machine? How is the electron beam produced? How is it steered, focussed and “wiggled” to produce synchrotron light?
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At 5:30pm on Saturday 6th June, members of the local community took part in a special annual service commemorating the D-Day landings in Normandy on 6th June 1944.
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On Saturday 23rd May 2009, over 200 members of the public flocked to Diamond to take a closer look at the facility, meet its staff and view the works of art produced by its artists in residence.
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It was a novel event on Tuesday 12th May when two separate beamlines achieved first light on the same day. The screens in the control room lit up with fluorescent images as beamlines I07 (Surface and Interface diffraction) and I12 (JEEP) received synchrotron light for the first time.
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Harwell, UK – 16th April 2009: Today, His Royal Highness The Duke of York, Prince Andrew, met the winners of the National Science Competition, whose prize included a visit to Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron science facility, which is based on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in South Oxfordshire.
