{"id":27174,"date":"2024-08-22T15:33:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T19:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=27174"},"modified":"2024-08-22T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T19:46:00","slug":"marshall-university-awarded-national-science-foundation-grant-for-advanced-x-ray-diffractometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2024\/08\/marshall-university-awarded-national-science-foundation-grant-for-advanced-x-ray-diffractometer\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall University awarded National Science Foundation grant for advanced X-ray diffractometer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A team of Marshall University researchers has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant totaling $338,647. This grant will fund the acquisition of a state-of-the-art X-ray diffractometer, significantly enhancing the university\u2019s research capabilities in materials analysis.<\/p>\n<p>The successful grant proposal was led by researchers from the College of Engineering and Computer Sciences (CECS) and the College of Science (COS.)\u00a0 They are:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Principal Investigator &#8211; Dr. Iyad Hijazi (CECS)<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Co-Principal Investigator &#8211; Dr. Rosalynn Quinones-Fernandez (COS)<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Co-Principal Investigator &#8211; Dr. Nasim Nosoudi (CECS)<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Co-Principal Investigator &#8211; Dr. Mohammed Ferdjallah (CECS)<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Co-Principal Investigator &#8211; Dr. Kim Kunkler (COS)<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Wesley Stites, dean of the College of Science,\u00a0 says the new instrument will make a dramatic difference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis cutting-edge instrument replaces a workhorse X-ray powder diffraction instrument that was used in the college of science in the 1970\u2019s,\u201d Stites said. \u201cImagine looking at the pattern of light on the floor after coming through a set of blinds and using that pattern and the angle of the floor and sun to figure out what the blinds look like. This instrument does that with X-rays and the tiny, repeating patterns inside a material.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stites said their collaborative efforts, along with contributions from other dedicated team members, have secured this vital funding for research capabilities at the university.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe advanced detector and the powerful software for data analysis are an amazing improvement,\u201d Stites said. This machine is going to be very useful for engineers, forensic scientists, biomedical researchers and materials scientists. I predict it is going to be very busy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Rigaku SmartLab SE X-ray diffractometer is designed primarily for materials analysis, including powder diffraction, small-angle scattering and thin-film analysis. This versatile instrument will be an invaluable tool for researchers across multiple departments interested in the structure and composition of materials.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the equipment, visit the Rigaku site. For a closer look at the research and efforts of the Marshall University Research Corporation, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/murc\/\">www.marshall.edu\/murc\/<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Marshall University researchers has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant totaling $338,647. This grant will fund the acquisition of a state-of-the-art X-ray diffractometer, significantly enhancing the university\u2019s research capabilities in materials analysis. The successful grant proposal was led by researchers from the College of Engineering and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,42,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cecs","category-cos","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27176,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27174\/revisions\/27176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}