It's #ThrowbackThursday again, so it's time to have a look at the next decade of ISIS' history - here are a tiny handful of the many pieces of our work from the 1990s! #ISISat40
ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Research Services
Didcot, Oxfordshire 3,488 followers
ISIS is a world-leading neutron & muon source, operated by STFC at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. STFC is part of UKRI.
About us
ISIS Neutron and Muon Source is a world-leading centre for research at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Our neutron and muon instruments give unique insights into the properties of materials on the atomic scale.
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- Research Services
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- 501-1,000 employees
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- Didcot, Oxfordshire
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- 1984
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- research , innovation, and engineering
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Our recent selection of science highlights act as a great example of the variety of research that happens at ISIS: batteries, quantum spin liquids and spacecraft! Scientists from the PSI Paul Scherrer Institut and ISIS have developed an experimental setup that enables quick imaging of battery materials and used it to study the state of charge of a commercial-size pouch cell during charging and discharging: https://lnkd.in/gZVR9FrV A new route to making a quantum spin liquid has been produced by scientists from the University of Birmingham for the first time. The first author on the study, Dr Aly Abdeldaim, completed the work during his PhD, which was part-funded by ISIS. https://lnkd.in/gtzZJ2PW Research that will help fine-tune a new class of ion exchange membranes has been published by researchers at Imperial College London, supported by colleagues at a range of other institutions, including Fabrizia Foglia from UCL. The results, published in Nature, should make it possible to build longer lasting and more cost- and energy-efficient devices such as flow batteries, a promising technology for long-duration grid-scale energy storage. https://lnkd.in/gW_ByJ9w Dr Ashwath Pazhani (Ash) from Coventry University, along with an international team of researchers, has created a new material for storing the liquid hydrogen used to propel rockets into space. https://lnkd.in/gqXBuB6z
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Today's #ThrowbackThursday, so we're reflecting on ISIS' history during the 1980s - what a throwback! And these are just a handful of the milestones and achievements of ISIS staff in the 1980s! #ISISat40
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ISIS has been around for the last 40 years, but our story begins even earlier than that! #ISISat40
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The countdown to our 40th anniversary has begun! Over the next 30 days, we’ll be sharing a variety of highlights from ISIS, past and present! #ISISat40
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How can neutrons provide information to help us improve meat alternatives? Have a look at this article, published by Technology Networks and co-written by one of our instrument scientists Gregory Smith, along with researchers from Delft University of Technology ➡️ https://bit.ly/3O7Kela #NeutronScience #MeatAlternatives
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A great showcase of ISIS science!
Today at ISIS Neutron and Muon Source , we had a "Science, Coffee and Cake" session. It was a great opportunity to hear flash presentations from scientists across the facility and chat to them about their work. Thanks to Maria Kastriotou and Peter Baker for organising! Talks were from: Emma Perry McLean talking about catalysts for Ammonia production George Wood presenting his work on skyrmions Oleg Kirichek and some new cryogenic kit Stephen Hall on tackling antimicrobial resistance Carlo Cazzaniga on Neutron irradiation Sayani Biswas using muons for elemental analysis Oleksandr Tomchuk using reflectometry to study liquid crystals Natasha Goudarzi on creating ISIS eLearning resources
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There's been loads of great science coming from our users and researchers recently - here are three photos from some of our recent science highlights! 1. Alex Rodzinka (joint ISIS-funded PhD student), looking at Iron-Age swords with Cranfield University and The British Museum on the INES beamline ⚔️ 2. The MuSR instrument, where observations in a conventional superconductor are challenging existing theories 🤯 3. A new probing technique is helping scientists from Universidade de Coimbra to see how manufacturing defects change materials in solar cells 🔎
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Over the last two days, we've been enjoying the annual ISIS student meeting, packed with excellent scientific talks and posters, as well as a careers panel, proposal writing session and an after dinner quiz. This event is a great opportunity for early career researchers to present their work, meet their peers, and find out more about what neutrons and muons can do. Did you attend? What was your favourite part? Images show: 1 - a group photo in front of an aerial photo of ISIS 2 - Kinga Molnár and Eugene C. in discussions by a poster 3 - Anthony R., Josh Makepeace and Sylvia Britto speaking on the careers panel 4 - Rosie de Laune (Davies) presenting the welcome 5 - Ben Bradley as quizmaster
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Find out what Haneef Shittu got up to while he was here as an intern over the summer...
How did you spend your summer? Haneef Shittu spent his working at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source. We caught up with Haneef in his final week to find out what he’s been up to. Haneef was one of ten interns who joined STFC for the summer through the 10,000 Black Interns programme. Between them, they worked on everything from Computer Assisted Design at STFC ASTeC to quantum sensors at RAL Space. #Interns #internships #10000BlackInterns #SummerIntern #DiscoverWhatsPossible