Australian Neutron Beam Users Group
The Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering (ACNS) and National Deuteration Facility (NDF) have announced their inaugural Impact awards.
They are offering prizes for explanations of what impacts your results with our facilities have had. Up to nine prizes, valued at up to $200 are on offer.
For details on how to enter and eligibility visit:
https://www.ansto.gov.au/whats-on/acns-and-ndf-impact-awards
2021 is an important year for ANBUG users as the federal governement will develop the Australian Governement Research Infrastructure Roadmap, ANSTO will develop its Decadal Plan and ACNS is to start up its expansion planning on the Second Guide Hall. Feedback from our ANBUG members is extremely valuable! It is our opportunity to shape Australia’s future research facility that can provide sustainable and state-of-the art support for our research. Because of this, the ANBUG Executive Committee encourages all members and people who care and interested Australian Neutron Science and Technology to participate in this 10 -15 minutes survey.
The survey can be done through the link below
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZD5ZDSB
It will be open for 4 weeks until Friday 2nd July.
The majority of the questions are intended for ACNS users, but if you are not a previous ACNS user and have suggestions on specific instruments, their resolution or other technical capabilities that you feel are currently missing, then we want to hear from you too!
Please forward this survey to anyone you think may be interested or through relevant networks
If you are interested in joining a specific working group focused on developing new neutron facilities, please email us at secretary@anbug.net.
The Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering (ACNS) at ANSTO has developed a comprehensive resource in their Sample Environment Handbook.
This manual is designed to give you information about their sample environment equipment to help you choose the best fit for the parameters you want to achieve.
ACNS offers a large range of equipment across multiple neutron beam instruments, which can make choosing difficult, as there are a number of sample environment options to achieve similar parameters on each neutron beam instrument.
The handbook is available at: https://www.ansto.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-01/se_manual_06_01_21-compressed.pdf
A lot of our ANBUG members might not be aware that we are a member of the Asia-Oceania Neutron Scattering Association (AONSA). Please check out their website (http://aonsa.org/) if you’d like to learn more!
This year, three ANBUG members, Dr Teng Lu, Dr. Rezwanul Haque and Prof. Rob Robinson, were awarded AONSA prizes!
Dr Teng Lu, from ANU, was awarded a 2021 AONSA Young Research Fellowship. The title of his fellowship is “The order-disorder feature and lattice dynamics in silver niobate-based materials” and will be hosted by the J-PARC proton accelerator facility in Japan.
Dr. Rezwanul Haque, from the University of the Sunshine Coat, was also awarded a 2021 AONSA Young Research Fellowship. The title of his fellowship is “Exploring the mechanical properties of Pb-free SAC-305 solder with Bi additions” and will be hosted by the China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS).
Prof Rob Robinson was awarded the 2021 AONSA prize “For his outstanding achievements in understanding magnetism of actinide and heavy-fermion materials using neutron scattering, seminal contributions in building the world-leading neutron facility in Australia, and continuous dedication for the promotion of neutron science in the Asia-Oceania region“
ANBUG congratulates Teng, Rezwanul and Rob for their AONSA awards!
ANBUG (albeit a little late!) wishes to congratulate its past secretary, Dr. Andrew Clulow, and his colleagues at Monash University for being awarded the 2020 Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Innovative Use of Technology.
This award acknowledged their innovative new synchrotron-based methods to study the interaction of milk and milk-like systems with drugs.
The team members, based in the Drug Delivery Disposition and Dynamics theme at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS), are Professor Boyd, Dr Malinda Salim, Dr Andrew Clulow and Ms Gisela Ramirez. Dr Adrian Hawley from the Australian Synchrotron is also an integral part of the team, providing the critical link to this major infrastructure that has been crucial to the advances made during the project.
Congratulations to Andy and all involved!