Professor Billinge has won the 2010 J.D. Hanawalt Award for his contribution to the field of powder diffraction. The award is named for J. Donald Hanawalt, whose pioneering work in the 1930’s led to the development of the PDF database structure and search/match procedures still in use today. The International Center for Diffraction Data gives the award… Read More Prof. Billinge wins the JD Hanawalt award
The web-proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Neutron Scattering has been published online. Our own Dr. Emil Bozin is one of the proceedings editors. The papers are all free to read at the following link: http://herald.iop.org/branding/m113/lt/319061/link/4218
Congratulations to Emil and the group for getting this study into Science: Entropically Stabilized local dipole formation in lead chalcogenides, Science 330, 1660 (2010). http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6011/1660.abstract?sid=3f66768e-9ea8-4854-92cf-25d35e96761d Here are some links to news coverage of the story: http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/PR_display.asp?prID=1206 http://www.apam.columbia.edu/announcements/Billinge_2011.html http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-245617027.html?key=01-42160D517E1A106C150B051F04694B2E224E324D3417295C30420B61651B617F137019731B7B1D6B39 http://www.ecoseed.org/en/technology-article-list/article/2-technology/8675-scientists-find-structural-distortions-in-thermoelectric-materials
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