Publisher: IOP Publishing

Issue: 39

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Publication date(s): 2021/09/29 (print) 2021/07/23 (online)

Pages: 390401

Volume: 33 Issue: 39

Journal: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

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This special issue is designed to honour the contributions of our colleague Neville Greaves who was among the first to apply newly-available synchrotron x-ray techniques to study the synthesis, structures and properties of advanced materials [1, 2]. His wide ranging work on ceramics, glasses and nanomaterials was celebrated in a recent issue of the J. Non-Cryst. Solids [3]. Neville’s contributions to synchrotron research, highlighted here, focussed on design and construction of new beamline capabilities and sample environments to probe materials under different physical and chemical conditions, integrating various techniques to obtain complementary data on structure and bonding. The innovative nature of his work is illustrated by his studies of liquids and glasses, where he incorporated aerodynamic levitation into these experimental techniques, using both synchrotron x-ray and neutron beams to probe the structural transformations and dynamics combined with molecular dynamics simulations to study atomic scale organisation. His work has had a major impact on fundamental condensed matter physics and chemistry as well as applied materials science; and in this issue, we present contributions from colleagues using and developing new experimental techniques at current and next-generation synchrotron, neutron and free-electron laser sources and in their own laboratories, that probe the fundamental physics, chemistry and functional properties of novel materials and processes.

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