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  • The interactions between the species formed during the capture and release cycle when using amino acid salts for carbon capture are poorly characterised. Here, the authors use neutron diffraction and structural refinement to reveal the changes in their structural features before and after CO2 absorption, aiding their future design.

    • Harrison Laurent
    • Daniel Sault
    • Lorna Dougan
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    P: 1-12

  • Significant amounts of different perchlorate salts have been discovered on the surface of Mars. Here, the authors show that magnesium perchlorate has a major impact on water structure in solution, providing insight into how an aqueous fluid might exist under the sub-freezing conditions present on Mars.

    • Samuel Lenton
    • Natasha H. Rhys
    • Lorna Dougan
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 8, P: 1-5

  • Fibrous networks constructed from high aspect ratio protein building blocks are ubiquitous in nature, but the functional advantage of such building blocks over globular proteins is not understood. Here, using shear rheology and small-angle neutron scattering, the authors characterise the mechanical and structural properties of photochemically crosslinked protein L and fibrin networks and show that aspect ratio is a crucial property that defines network architecture and mechanics.

    • Matt D. G. Hughes
    • Sophie Cussons
    • Lorna Dougan
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 14, P: 1-11

  • The discovery of abundant ammonia in samples returned from the asteroid Bennu suggests that some bodies in the outer solar system accreted where ammonia ice was stable. Here, the authors use neutron scattering to probe the intermolecular structure of mimetic ammonia-water solutions relevant to a Titan impact melt and report the formation of ice-like motifs in ammonia’s hydration shell, providing insights into the hydrogen bonding network of ammonia-rich ocean worlds.

    • Mazin Nasralla
    • Harrison Laurent
    • Lorna Dougan
    ResearchOpen Access
    Communications Chemistry
    Volume: 8, P: 1-11

  • Trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) protects organisms from the damaging effects of deep-sea high pressure, but it is not well understood how pressure and TMAO in combination perturb the water structure. Here, the authors use neutron scattering coupled with computational modelling of water at 25 bar and 4 kbar in the presence and absence of TMAO to propose an “osmolyte protection ratio” at which pressure and TMAO-induced energy changes effectively cancel out, which translates across scales to the organism level.

    • Harrison Laurent
    • Tristan G. A. Youngs
    • Lorna Dougan
    ResearchOpen Access
    Communications Chemistry
    Volume: 5, P: 1-10