Silvia Capelli
Silvia is currently responsible of the Laue-in-Time-of-Flight single crystal neutron diffraction instrument SXD at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Oxford, UK).
After a Laurea in Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Milan (I) and a Master in Polymer Science and Technology at the Polytechnic of Milan (I), she obtained a PhD in Chemical Crystallography from the University of Bern (CH). Since then, she worked at large scale facilities like the ESRF (Swiss-Norwegian beamline BM1A and Material science beamline ID11) and the ILL (single crystal neutron diffraction instruments D19 and D10) in Grenoble (F). Her research interests include: structure-properties relationship in molecular crystals, effects of H/D isotope replacements on intermolecular interactions, molecular motion and diffuse scattering in crystals, combining different techniques in-situ (most recent: simultaneous Raman spectroscopy and single crystal neutron diffraction for the study of thermo- and photo-chromic materials).
On the difference between neutrons and X-rays ADPs: experiences and observations
Although the theory behind single-crystal diffraction is exactly the same independently of using neutrons or x-rays, the two probes are sensitive to very different constituents of the same crystal: nuclei and electron clouds respectively
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