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Alex C. Hannon is affiliated with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the United Kingdom and specializes in research within the field of Materials Science, with a focus on Materials Chemistry, Ceramics and Composites, and related subfields such as Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Mechanical Engineering, and Condensed Matter Physics.

Their research primarily addresses topics related to glass properties and applications, luminescence properties of advanced materials, phase-change materials and chalcogenides, solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography, crystal structures and properties, material dynamics and properties, and nuclear materials and radiation effects.

Recent publications by Alex C. Hannon include:

  • "Structure and properties of densified silica glass: characterizing the order within disorder," 2020, NPG Asia Materials
  • "Neutron Diffraction and Raman Studies of the Incorporation of Sulfate in Silicate Glasses," 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • "The structure of sodium silicate glass from neutron diffraction and modeling of oxygen-oxygen correlations," 2021, Journal of the American Ceramic Society
  • "Structural units of binary vanadate glasses by X-ray and neutron diffraction," 2021, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
  • "Structural investigation of lithium borate glasses by Raman spectroscopy: Quantitative evaluation of structural units and its correlation with density," 2023, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids

Frequent coauthors in their work include Steve Feller, Uwe Hoppe, Fayan Zhu, Yongquan Zhou, and Chris J. Benmore.

Alex C. Hannon's work has been published repeatedly in several notable venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
  • Journal of the American Ceramic Society
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Ceramics International

Best Publications

  • Structures of Uncharacterised Polymorphs of Gallium Oxide from Total Neutron Diffraction

    Helen Y. Playford;Alex C. Hannon;Emma R. Barney;Emma R. Barney;Richard I. Walton

  • Results on disordered materials from the GEneral Materials diffractometer, GEM, at ISIS

    Alex C. Hannon

  • Boroxol groups in vitreous boron oxide: new evidence from neutron diffraction and inelastic neutron scattering studies

    Alex C. Hannon;David I. Grimley;Robert A. Hulme;Adrian C. Wright

  • ATLAS - Analysis of Time-of-Flight Diffraction Data from Liquid and Amorphous Samples

    AK Soper;WS Howells;AC Hannon

  • Characterization of Structural Disorder in γ-Ga2O3

    Helen. Y. Playford;Alex C. Hannon;Matthew G. Tucker;Daniel M. Dawson

  • Floppy modes in crystalline and amorphous silicates

    Martin T. Dove;Mark J. Harris;Alex C. Hannon;John M. Parker

  • ATLAS : A Suite of Programs for the Analysis of Time-of-flight Neutron Diffraction Data from Liquid and Amorphous Samples

    A. C. Hannon;W. S. Howells;A. K. Soper

  • Voronoi analysis of the structure of Cu–Zr and Ni–Zr metallic glasses

    T. Fukunaga;K. Itoh;T. Otomo;K. Mori

  • Direct measurement of the Si–O bond length and orientational disorder in the high-temperature phase of cristobalite

    Martin T. Dove;David A. Keen;Alex C. Hannon;Ian P. Swainson

  • Local distortions in the colossal magnetoresistive manganates La0.70Ca0.30MnO3, La0.80Ca0.20MnO3 and La0.70Sr0.30MnO3 revealed by total neutron diffraction

    S. J. Hibble;S. P. Cooper;A. C. Hannon;I. D. Fawcett

  • Terminal oxygens in amorphous TeO2

    Emma R. Barney;Alex C. Hannon;Diane Holland;Norimasa Umesaki

  • Structure and properties of densified silica glass: characterizing the order within disorder

    Yohei Onodera;Yohei Onodera;Shinji Kohara;Philip S. Salmon;Akihiko Hirata;Akihiko Hirata;Akihiko Hirata

  • The structure of aluminate glasses by neutron diffraction

    Alex C. Hannon;John M. Parker

  • Intermediate range structure and low-energy dynamics of densified vitreous silica

    Y. Inamura;M. Arai;M. Nakamura;T. Otomo

  • Structure of zinc and niobium tellurite glasses by neutron and x-ray diffraction

    U Hoppe;E Yousef;E Yousef;C Rüssel;J Neuefeind

  • Surprises from a Simple Material—The Structure and Properties of Nickel Cyanide

    Simon J. Hibble;Ann M. Chippindale;Alexander H. Pohl;Alex C. Hannon

  • The structure of alkali silicate glasses

    Alex C. Hannon;Behnam Vessal;John M. Parker

  • The P-O bond lengths in vitreous probed by neutron diffraction with high real-space resolution

    U Hoppe;G Walter;A Barz;D Stachel

  • Scientific Reviews: GEM: The General Materials Diffractometer at ISIS-Multibank Capabilities for Studying Crystalline and Disordered Materials

    P. Day;J. Enderby;W. Williams;L. Chapon

  • Establishing the structure of GeS2 at high pressures and temperatures: a combined approach using x-ray and neutron diffraction

    Anita Zeidler;James W E Drewitt;Philip S Salmon;Adrian C Barnes

  • Structure of AuCN determined from total neutron diffraction.

    Simon J. Hibble;and Alex C. Hannon;Simon M. Cheyne

  • The role of Sb5+ in the structure of Sb2O3–B2O3 binary glasses—an NMR and Mössbauer spectroscopy study

    D. Holland;A.C. Hannon;M.E. Smith;C.E. Johnson

  • CuCN: A Polymorphic Material. Structure of One Form Determined from Total Neutron Diffraction

    Simon J. Hibble;Simon M. Cheyne;and Alex C. Hannon;Sharon G. Eversfield

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard I. Walton
Richard I. Walton University of Warwick
Richard K. Brow
Richard K. Brow Missouri University of Science and Technology
Richard P. Martin
Richard P. Martin Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Alan K. Soper
Alan K. Soper Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Chris J. Benmore
Chris J. Benmore Argonne National Laboratory
Robert J. Newport
Robert J. Newport University of Kent
Yongqiang Cheng
Yongqiang Cheng Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Matthew G. Tucker
Matthew G. Tucker Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Akihiko Hirata
Akihiko Hirata Waseda University
Mark E. Smith
Mark E. Smith University of Southampton

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