🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Amazing week ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Muon Training School! Thanks to the organisers, speakers, and scientists for great talks and hands-on experience with the μSR spectrometers! Delighted to have won the prize for best talk, my new Muon pal and etched schematic of ISIS are the coolest!

Excellent talks and training sessions Faraday Institution #ECR2024! Very excited to share my work on structural evolution in NaNiO2 cathodes, including our new structural model for Na(2/3)NiO2!

Jahn–Teller Distortions and Phase Transitions in LiNiO2: Insights from Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics and Variable-Temperature X-ray Diffraction By Grey Group, Sian Dutton et al. Cambridge University Read the paper 👉 go.acs.org/8UP

Just returned from a wonderful week Institut Laue-Langevin D4, where we measured magnetic diffuse scattering (mPDF) in candidate magnetocaloric materials. In lieu of our usual instrument photograph (no photography in the reactor!) Fiamma and I took advantage of the cool virtual tour!

Exciting times at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Roadshow Cardiff University! Many cool talks and interesting experiments to consider. Thanks to the organisers for putting on a great event, and giving me the opportunity to talk about novel structural solutions in Na(1-x)NiO2 phases!

Great to collaborate with Paul Saines and team on this work. Cavendish Laboratory

When you wish upon a high flux neutron diffractometer... you get to see low intensity superstructure peaks! (At least at the WISH instrument ISIS Neutron and Muon Source) Thanks to the team experimental Farheen, Liam, Sian Dutton and the wonderful instrument scientists Fabio and Pascal!

NOW OPEN! Winton 2025 Cambridge-Berkeley Exchange Programme 📅 Deadline - 13 Dec 2024 Partnership between the Winton Programme for the #Physics of Sustainability & Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute (ENSI) at UC Berkeley - supporting #research within the fields of these 2 programmes energy.cam.ac.uk/news/open-wint…

Our latest work is out in JACS! For anyone interested in Jahn-Teller distortions, displacive transitions and LiNiO2's cooler sibling NaNiO2, check out our "scientific tour de force" (thanks reviewer 1)! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… How might JT impact electrochemistry in NNO...? 👀🔋

Displacive Jahn–Teller Transition in NaNiO2 | Journal of the American Chemical Society Sian Dutton James Steele Cavendish Laboratory Cambridge University #Displacive #JahnTeller #NaNiO2 #Transition pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Congratulations Camilla

It's the most wonderful time of the year... By which I of course mean the RSC Solid State Chemistry Group ECR and Christmas meetings! Thanks so much for the opportunity to give a talk and poster presentation on our work which should be coming to ChemRxiv soon. Happy Holidays all!

The first paper from my PhD is now available ChemRxiv! We solve the structure of the first desodiated phase in NaxNiO2 (x=2/3) via X-ray and neutron diffraction, solid state NMR, and DFT/AIMD. Ni charge- and Na vacancy-ordering play an important role! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

📢 Happy to share our paper on low-T structure and magnetism of Ba3Tb(BO3)3, out now! Thank you to all coauthors, especially Sian Dutton. Work done at Cavendish Laboratory, PSI Paul Scherrer Institut and ISIS Neutron and Muon Source ⚛ doi.org/10.1103/PhysRe…

Our latest experiment was the cat's μ! We just wrapped up in-/ex-situ μ-SR on EMU ISIS Neutron and Muon Source ! We're looking into sodium dynamics in the phases which form when NaNiO2 is electrochemically cycled, and could even measure whilst dis/charging thanks to the BAM cell!

🎉 Congratulations to Xiaotian Zhang on his first paper! At the start of his PhD I think he hadn't ever done a Rietveld refinement before, and now he is a pro at multi-phase magnetic refinements! Read all about TbTaO4 here: doi.org/10.1039/D4MA01… Sian Dutton Montu Saxena

Congratulations James Steele and team!