Modelling nano-scale disorder in crystals

Materials Monthly is produced by the ANU Centre for Science and Engineering of Materials Professor Richard Welberry has been working on methods to understand the arrangement of atoms and molecules in disordered crystals for many years. He’s the head of the Disordered Materials Research Group at the Research School of Chemistry (RSC), and his main tools of trade are X-rays and computers. The X-rays are used to probe the atomic structure of the material being studied. The computers are used to construct models based on the information from these X-ray studies.