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I am an authority on the structure of glasses and other disordered materials, and an expert in the study of atomic structure by neutron diffraction. I am employed at the ISIS Facility, which is a neutron source located in Oxfordshire in the UK. I work as an instrument scientist on the GEM (GEneral Materials) diffractometer, and I am responsible for its scientific programme in disordered materials.
I was recently awarded the Ross Coffin Purdy Award of the American Ceramic Society for the following paper:
Hannon, A. C., Vaishnav, S., Alderman, O. L. G. & Bingham, P. A., The structure of sodium silicate glass from neutron diffraction and modelling of oxygen-oxygen correlations, J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 2021, 104, 6155-6171. DOI: 10.1111/jace.17993 Open Access PDF
The following publication describes my main area of expertise...
Hannon, A. C., Neutron diffraction techniques for structural studies of glasses, Chapter 5 in: Modern glass characterization, Ed. M. Affatigato, Wiley, New York, 2015. See: Wiley or Amazon. CHAPTER
Here are my most recent publications...
Bokova, M., Kassem, M., Usuki, T., Tverjanovich, A., Sokolov, A., Fontanari, D., Hannon, A. C., Benmore, C. J., Alekseev, I., Kohara, S., Roussel, P., Khomenko, M., Ohara, K., Onodera, Y., Cuisset, A. & Bychkov, E. Rigidity-driven structural isomers in the NaCl–Ga2S3 system: implications for energy storage, Small Science, 2025, 5, 2400371. DOI: 10.1002/smsc.202400371
Hoppe, U., Freudenberger, P. T., Brow, R. K., Bednarčik, J. & Hannon, A. C. Study of the structure of Zn and Na borophosphate glasses using X-ray and neutron scattering techniques, Solids, 2024, 5, 355-374. DOI: 10.3390/solids5030024
Song, L., Hannon, A. C., Feller, S., Liu, R., McGuire, P., Zhang, B., Zhou, Y., Li, W. & Zhu, F. Deciphering the structure and potassium-ion transport mechanism of potassium borate glass, Dalton Trans., 2024, 53, 10434-10445. DOI: 10.1039/D4DT00804A
Song, L., Feller, S., Hawbaker, H., Yin, W., Li, W., Hannon, A. C., Zhou, Y., Xu, J. & Zhu, F. Unveiling the structure of calcium borate glass by neutron diffraction, MAS-NMR, Raman and first-principles calculations, Ceram. Int., 2024, 50, 6634-6647. DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2023.11.412
Song, L., Zhu, F., Hannon, A. C., Zhou, Y., Wang, Y. & Li, W. Raman spectroscopy combined with quantitative calculation to establish B2O3 glass structure model, Phys. Chem. Glasses Eur. J. Glass Sci. Technol. B, 2023, 64, 178-189. DOI: 10.13036/17533562.64.6.19
Mendes Da Silva, R., Zeidler, A., Mohammadi, H., Gammond, L. V. D., Girón Lange, E., Youngman, R. E., Aitken, B. G., Hannon, A. C., Benmore, C. J., Vaughan, G. B. M. & Salmon, P. S. Mapping the structural trends in zinc aluminosilicate glasses, J. Chem. Phys., 2023, 159, 064501. DOI: 10.1063/5.0157790
Song, L., Wang, Y., Hannon, A. C., Feller, S., Li, W., Zhou, Y. & Zhu, F. Structural investigation of lithium borate glasses by Raman spectroscopy: Quantitative evaluation of structural units and its correlation with density, J. Non-Cryst. Solids, 2023, 616, 122478. DOI: 10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2023.122478
Hannon, A. C. Adrian Carl Wright: The father of neutron diffraction studies of glass, Phys. Chem. Glasses Eur. J. Glass Sci. Technol. B, 2023, 64, 84-85. Free content
Itoh, K., Saida, J., Barney, E. R. & Hannon, A. C. Deuterium occupation of interatomic hole sites in Ni67Zr33 amorphous alloy, J. Alloys Comp., 2023, 961, 171094. DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2023.171094
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