NIRT research funding is renewed with an NSF FRG (focused research group)
Renewed funding has been awarded by NSF to a group made up in part of the NIRT group. The new grant is entitled "Beyond Crystallography: structure of nanostructured materials". The PI is Simon Billinge with co-PI's Chong-Yu Ruan (MSU physics), Mich...
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Summer high school intern research is a success
Margaret Shaw spent the summer in the Billinge group working on speeding up our PDF refinements without losing any accuracy in the refined parameters. As well as learning a lot and having plenty of fun, Margarets work showed us a way to get an almost...
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NIRT research featured as an ESRF research highlight
NIRT research into the real local structure of quasiperiodic quasicrystals was highlighted in the 2006 annual report of research at the facility....
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Book on the PDF techique is published by Plenum
The atomic pair distribution function (PDF) technique, under development by NIRT researchers, now has a book explaining what it is about and how to do it. The book was coauthored by Prof. Takeshi Egami (U. Tennessee) and NIRT investigator Prof. Simo...
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