Dr James Hester

Instrument scientist for ECHIDNA

Phone +61 (0)2 9717 3218
E-Mail  James.Hester@ansto.gov.au

Dr James Hester is an instrument scientist for ECHIDNA, the High-Resolution Powder Diffraction beamline at OPAL.

After obtaining his PhD from the University of Western Australia in the area of inorganic electron density study, he moved to Tsukuba, Japan to undertake postdoctoral work. A few years later he joined ANSTO as a synchrotron instrument scientist at the Australian National Beamline Facility, also in Tsukuba. In April 2007 he returned to Sydney to join the OPAL diffraction group.

James's research interests include accurate electron density study, crystallographic data standards, scientific programming, and novel inorganic structures.

Key Publications

P. S. Salamakha, O. L. Sologub, J. R. Hester, C. Rizzoli, A. P. Goncalves, and M. Almeida, Rietveld refinement of the RNi₄B compounds (R = Gd, Tb, Er), J. Alloy. Compd., 439(1-2), 162-165 (2007).

J. R. Hester, 'A validating CIF parser: PyCIFRW', J. Appl. Cryst. 39, 621-625 (2006).

O. L. Solugub, J. R. Hester, P. S. Salamakha, E. Leroy, and C. Godart, 'Ab-initio structure determination of a new boride CePt₃B, a distorted variant of CaTiO₃', J. Alloys Comp. 337, 10-17 (2002).

J. R. Hester and O. A. Louchev, 'Nanoparticle-templated carbon nanotube ring nucleus formation', Appl. Phys. Lett. 80, 2580-2582 (2002).

V. V. Petrykin, E. A. Goodilin, J. R. Hester, E. A. Trofimenko, M. Kakihana, N. N. Oleynikov, and Y. D. Tret'yakov, 'Structural disorder and supercoductivity suppression in NdBa₂Cu₃O_z (z ~ 7)' Physica C. 340, 16-32 (2000).