Two excellent talks given by self-confessed "chemists who enjoy crystallography." Sebastian Pike shared how electron diffraction has benefitted his explorations in organometallic chemistry and Dr Andrea Laybourn @andrealaybourn.bsky.social described her group's successes resulting from ED on MOFs.

There has been a large explosion in Oxfordshire tonight. Suggestions from eye witnesses are a possible lightning strike. ▶️ Read more ⤵️ bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Congrats to all involved in the 4th Synergy-ED installation in Europe University of Southampton. The culmination of two years hard work headed up by Professor Simon Coles Simon Coles🇪🇺🇬🇧 . His vision to bring 3D Electron Diffraction to the whole UK community is now a reality. #3DED #microED

Soo excited to announce the birth of ‘Els’ - our new dedicated electron diffractometer Rigaku Oxford Diffraction @UoSChemistry NCS. This is one of those career milestone moments…

NEW: we need to talk about UK graduate wages, and the idea that Britain sends too many people to university. American readers should stick around for the UK/US comparisons 👀 Let’s start with this: the UK graduate wage premium has fallen substantially over the last 25 years

Fantastic for our X-ray RTP Warwick to be involved in this study.

We are please to confirm Dr David Walker from RTP Warwick who will be telling us about the new National Facility for Electron Diffraction. Meeting registration is still open at uksaf.net

Solid state #battery design charges in minutes, lasts for thousands of cycles Harvard SEAS Nature Materials doi.org/gtcp6m techxplore.com/news/2024-01-s…

Concluding the first half of the meeting is Dr David Walker with a talk on the new electron diffraction national facility.

Please share - our team is recruiting for a fully funded PhD position (Oct 2024 start, home fees only) on the use of electron crystallography to examine a range of properties in MOFs, from flexibility to guest binding (including crystal sponge work). Advert to come. Email me!

Thrilling moment University of Southampton this week with our partners JEOL EUROPE as we marked the opening of the National Electron Diffraction Facility! Huge kudos to the whole team who played a part in bringing this vision to life. ncs.ac.uk/nedf/

With lab-based operando X-ray & post-mortem techniques, Ashok Menon, Louis F J Piper, & team WMG Faraday Institution visualize the origins of electrochemical capacity fade under high-voltage conditions in pilot line single-crystalline NMC811-graphite cells doi.org/10.1103/PRXEne…

📰 #Paper | #RenewableEnergy "A Novel #Electrochemical Flow-Cell for Operando XAS Investigations On X-ray Opaque Supports" published in PCCP Royal Society of Chemistry SAMBA #XAS #XRAY 👉doi.org/10.1039/D3CP04…

Great work by Louis F J Piper Ashok Menon and team using our excellent in-house X-ray facilities.

Would you like to work on a state-of-the-art materials characterization beamline 🔬⚛️? 🇬🇧Warwick Physics is hiring a PostDoc! 📅Period: 2 yrs mostly based at XMaS/BM28 European Synchrotron 🇫🇷 📌Deadline for application: 03 March Details in bit.ly/RFellow_108735…

I hope you enjoy this rather different offering, because there is going to be more dinosaur content very soon. And no! There will be no dyno jokes🙂 Have a great weekend everyone. Take care🙂

Refinement of X-ray and electron diffraction crystal structures using analytical Fourier transforms of Slater-type atomic wavefunctions in Olex2 doi.org/10.1107/S16005…

🔋 We invite you to join the #JEOL, Rigaku Oxford Diffraction and HORIBA Scientific Battery Characterization Seminar 🔋 📅 April 4, 2024 ⏰ 9.30 AM - 4 PM 📍JEOL (EUROPE) SAS, Paris Register here 👉 lnkd.in/eqPEQQh5 #nmr #microscopy #electronmicroscopy #batteryresearch

Sneak preview of my upcoming talk Solid State Ionics - Thursday 4pm - Abbey Room (5D5 Battery Degradation/Dendrites). Operando NMC//graphite pouch cell studies without Synchrotron*. I will be highlighting recent work from both FI-Degradation and FI_FutureCat projects. Please say hi!