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20-12-2013

Assembling molecular wedges: the route towards new nano-structured functional materials

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17-12-2013

Iron phase distribution analysis reveals the firing protocol of ancient ceramics

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03-12-2013

Self-organised dynamics of nanodot patterns on a surface

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19-11-2013

Iron electronic state and the electrical conductivity of the Earth’s lower mantle

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05-11-2013

Perfect crystals evolving from highly-mismatched epitaxial structures

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25-09-2013

Organic photovoltaic device local structure revealed by combined X-ray diffraction and fluorescence

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23-09-2013

Reactivity of xenon with ice under planetary conditions

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17-09-2013

Cellular water transport: atomic level insight provided by the first sub-angstrom resolution crystal structure of a membrane protein

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03-09-2013

Does nuclear resonant scattering violate reciprocity?

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20-08-2013

Persistent magnetic excitations in superconducting and non-superconducting La2-xSrxCuO4

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06-08-2013

Magnetoelectronics, developing next generation device technology

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16-07-2013

High pressure synthesis of high oxidation state metal nitrides using a pre-structured nanocrystalline chemical precursor

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02-07-2013

Unexpected tolerance of the spinal cord to X-ray microbeams

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18-06-2013

Room temperature magnetic semiconductor for spintronics

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23-05-2013

Direct observation of the self-assembly of surfactant micelles

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15-05-2013

Phonon anomalies and the Verwey transition in magnetite

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18-04-2013

A new class of signalling molecules revealed by structure solution exploiting the anomalous scattering of sulphur

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12-04-2013

Particle and liquid motion in semi-solid aluminium alloys

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27-03-2013

Structural and electronic reconstruction at the interface between LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 band insulators revealed by X-rays

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15-03-2013

A path to new manganites with perovskite structure

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05-03-2013

Sub-angstrom resolution protein crystallography reveals how living organisms discriminate in favour of phosphate in arsenate-rich environments

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19-02-2013

New structures of carbonates at high pressures and their relevance for the deep Earth carbon cycle

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31-01-2013

Record paramagnetic response of gold nanoparticles deposited on an archaeal cell wall surface layer

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23-01-2013

Blue blood: a challenge for structural biologists

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