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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...

Hannon, A.C. & Sutrisno, M.S. Improving the accuracy of gas pycnometry measurements on small samples, Phys. Chem. Glasses - Eur. J. Glass Sci. Technol. B in press 2025

Alderman, O. L. G., Tagiara, N. S., Slagle, I. T., Gabrielsson, R., Boggs, P., Wagner, M., Rossini, A., Martin, S. W., John, S., Rocha, L., Wilson, R. M., Hawbaker, H., Hannon, A. C., Kamitsos, E. I. I. & Feller, S. A review of the fraction of four-coordinated boron in binary borate glasses and melts, Rep. Prog. Phys., 2025, 88, 076501. DOI: 10.1002/10.1088/1361-6633/adc69c

Song, L., Wang, Y., Zhai, T., Sun, B., Du, Y., Feller, S., Yin, W., Xu, J., Hannon, A. C. & Zhu, F. Revealing the microstructure and structural origin of glass-forming range of magnesium borate glass, Ceram. Int., 2025, 51, 18966-18977. DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2025.02.075 

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

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