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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Proposals at the OPAL Neutron Beam Facility (both cold- and thermal-neutron instruments) and National Deuteration Facility.<o:p></o:p></span></b></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">We operate around 300 days per calendar year. 
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<p><em><b><span style="color:black">Deadline 15 March 2016, for beam time between July and December 2016</span></b></em><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><em>ANSTO is open</em><b> for proposals</b> for the following neutron-beam instruments and facilities:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Facilities/Instruments/Echidna/index.htm" title="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/instruments/echidna">Echidna</a></span>
 (high-resolution powder diffractometer) <br>
<a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Facilities/Instruments/Wombat/index.htm" title="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/instruments/wombat">Womba<span style="color:#0079C2">t</span></a> (high-intensity powder diffractometer)
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<span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Facilities/Instruments/Koala/index.htm" title="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/instruments/koala">Koala</a></span> (Laue diffractometer)<br>
<span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Facilities/Instruments/Kowari/index.htm" title="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/instruments/kowari">Kowari</a></span> (strain scanner)
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Facilities/Instruments/Platypus/index.htm">Platypus</a> (reflectometer)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Facilities/Instruments/Quokka/index.htm">Quokka</a> (pinhole small-angle-neutron scattering)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Facilities/Instruments/Taipan/index.htm" title="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/instruments/taipan">Taipan</a></span>
 (thermal-neutron 3-axis spectrometer)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Facilities/Instruments/Sika/index.htm" title="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/instruments/taipan">Sika</a></span>
 (cold-neutron 3-axis spectrometer) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Facilities/Instruments/Dingo/index.htm">Dingo</a> (neutron radiography/tomography/imaging)
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Facilities/Instruments/Pelican/index.htm">Pelican</a> (cold-neutron time-of-flight spectrometer)
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Facilities/Instruments/Kookaburra/index.htm">Kookaburra</a> (ultra-small-angle neutron scattering)
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Facilities/Instruments/Bilby/index.htm">Bilby</a> (2<sup>nd</sup> pinhole small-angle-neutron scattering – time-of-flight)
<span style="color:black">–</span><span style="color:red"> new</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Facilities/NationalDeuterationFacility/BiologicalLabs/index.htm" title="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/molecular_deuteration/biological_deuteration_laboratories">Biological</a></span>
 and <span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Facilities/NationalDeuterationFacility/ChemicalDeuterationLabs/index.htm" title="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/facilities/molecular_deuteration/chemical_deuteration_laboratories">Chemical</a></span>
 Deuteration (at the <span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Facilities/NationalDeuterationFacility/index.htm" title="http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/facilities_and_equipment/national_deuteration_facility">National Deuteration
 Facility</a></span> - NDF)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Facilities/Instruments/SAXS/index.htm">Small-angle X-ray scattering</a> and
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X-ray reflectometry</a> (in conjunction with QUOKKA or PLATYPUS)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Facilities/Instruments/Magnetometer/index.htm">Physical Properties Measurement System</a> (only in collaborative mode with ANSTO staff)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>Proposals should be submitted using our on-line system,
<span style="color:blue"><a href="https://neutron.ansto.gov.au/" title="https://neutron.ansto.gov.au/">https://neutron.ansto.gov.au</a></span>
<span style="color:black">Deadline: 15 March 2016.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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