{"id":2970,"date":"2025-10-01T13:39:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2025-10-08T13:47:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T12:47:42","slug":"shepherd-group-explores-high-pressure-chemistry-at-diamond-light-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/2025\/10\/01\/shepherd-group-explores-high-pressure-chemistry-at-diamond-light-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Shepherd Group Explores High-Pressure Chemistry at Diamond Light Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Across two intensive days on the I19 beamline (Small Molecule Single Crystal Diffraction), the team used diamond anvil cells to compress crystalline samples and collect high-resolution diffraction data under well-defined pressure conditions. This approach allows researchers to probe structural changes, phase transitions, and intermolecular contacts that are not accessible at ambient pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Access to I19 enabled precise measurements across multiple pressure points, generating a robust dataset for subsequent crystallographic refinement and comparison with room-pressure structures. The work forms part of the group\u2019s broader programme in crystal engineering and solid-state chemistry, aimed at establishing reliable structure\u2013pressure relationships in functional molecular materials.<\/p>\n<p>This successful visit underlines SISC\u2019s engagement with national large-scale research facilities and the group\u2019s continued use of advanced crystallographic methods to address challenging chemical questions.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diamond.ac.uk\/Instruments\/Crystallography\/I19.html\">I19 beamline at Diamond Light Source<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across two intensive days on the I19 beamline (Small Molecule Single Crystal Diffraction), the team used diamond anvil cells to compress crystalline samples and collect high-resolution diffraction data under well-defined pressure conditions. This approach allows researchers to probe structural changes, phase transitions, and intermolecular contacts that are not accessible at ambient pressure. Access to I19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2050,"featured_media":2973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2976,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions\/2976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}