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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>First users at the
ISIS Second Target Station</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Wednesday 27 May 2009</span></b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>After five years of construction, the
ISIS Second Target Station has opened its doors for the first scheduled
experiment.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Professor Jeff Penfold, the Chief Scientist
for the ISIS Second Target Station is leading the team from Oxford University
and ISIS. The </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>joint team will carry out the experiment on the Inter
reflectometer. They expect the results to lead to significant advances in
understanding the workings of everything from cell membranes to the practical
chemistry of fabric conditioners.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> “</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We plan to explore for the
first time how the layered structures formed by surfactants at a liquid surface
dis-assemble in real time," said Professor Penfold. "When <span
style='color:black'>I first started using neutron scattering for these kind of
chemistry studies in the early 1990s, </span>experiments such as these would
have been unimaginable.<span style='color:black'> The new optimized instruments
on the second target station now allow us to see in a minute what used to take
a day. It’s a real boost for studies in soft matter and biochemistry and will
allow us to take a major step forward in our understanding.”</span></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'><img width=535 height=358 id="Picture_x0020_1"
src="cid:image001.jpg@01C9DEE5.F5898FC0"
alt="http://ndapelham/TargetStation2/about/09EC2091%20ISIS%20TS2%20First%20users.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Neutrons play a vital role in offering
analysis techniques for research on subjects as varied as clean energy and the
environment, pharmaceuticals and health care, through to nanotechnology,
materials engineering and IT. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img width=548 height=364
id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01C9DEE5.F5898FC0"
alt="http://ndapelham/TargetStation2/about/09EC2080%20ISIS%20TS2%20First%20users.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>“This first experiment on one of our seven new
instruments is a very important milestone in the project and a significant day
for the global science community," said Dr Andrew Taylor, ISIS Director. </span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>"The Second Target Station builds on the success and
expertise we have developed over the past 20 years in the UK at ISIS and allows
us to move further into the areas of soft matter, advanced materials and
bioscience. We will be carrying out fundamental research that will shape
the technological advances of tomorrow.”</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Professor Keith Mason, Chief Executive of the STFC said:</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>"The start of research on the ISIS Second Target
Station is a major day for UK science, and demonstrates the wisdom of long-term
government investment in research. The ISIS team can be justifiably proud of
their achievement in delivering this major new research facility on time and on
budget. ISIS Second Target Station will play a major role in delivering on
STFC's vision to maximise the benefits of our research for the UK and global
communities’’.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Neutron beams at ISIS can be used <span style='color:
black'>like “super x-rays” to study materials at the atomic level. Neutron
scattering experiments allow the location of atoms and the forces between them
to be measured. ISIS has been doing this since 1984 and has established itself
as a world leader in the physical and life sciences.</span></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img width=624
height=413 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.jpg@01C9DEE5.F5898FC0"
alt="http://ndapelham/TargetStation2/about/09EC2092%20ISIS%20TS2%20First%20users.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>The first experiment at the ISIS Second Target Station is
the start of a £400k major new research programme funded by the EPSRC
(Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) awarded to Professor
Jeffrey Penfold (ISIS, STFC) and Professor Bob Thomas (University of Oxford).
The research will use neutron scattering techniques to reveal how multilayer
structures at surfaces and interfaces can self-assemble. These structures are
found in a wide range of applications in biology and technology including
aspects of soft lubrication (hair and fabric conditioners) and bio-lubrication.</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Second
Target Station Project serves an international community of over 2,000
scientists. It was made possible by a grant to the Science and Technology
Facilities Council from The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
through the Large Facilities Capital Fund.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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