The in-situ hard X-ray absorption spectroscopy beamline will serve a broad community of scientists and receives support from Swedish scientists representing a wide range of areas such as e.g. environmental science, biogeochemistry, catalysis research, energy research including e.g. solar cells, batteries and waste products from combustion, magnetic materials, material science, nuclear and coordination chemistry, organometallic chemistry, physics and chemistry of thin metal layers, corrosion chemistry, atmospheric research as well as conservation of heritage object. The technique is used to study the effective oxidation state of and the local structure around absorbing elements and it enables quantitative speciation of certain elements in a complex matrix. It is an especially powerful technique when studying very low element concentrations, e.g. experiments conducted at naturally occurring concentrations in water and soil or used in catalytic driven processes.
The design of the beamline has focused on a high flux of photons in a wide energy range, possibility to perform time resolved experiments down to the milliseconds regime, and an experimental set-up allowing several kinds of measurements to be performed simultaneously. The high brilliance from the MAX IV storage ring in combination with the beamline design allows for highly diluted samples and samples sensitive to radiation damage to be measured, making this in-situ hard X-ray XAS beamline highly competitive with the world leading XAS beamlines.
The in-situ XAS beamline will offer excellent possibilities in environmental science, biogeochemistry, catalysis research, material science, and energy research; Included are topics as corrosion chemistry, atmospheric research as well as conservation of heritage object.
Contact persons
Katarina Norén, MAX IV laboratory (Project Manager)
Email: Katarina.Noren@maxlab.lu.se
Phone:
+46 (0)46-222 09 35
Ingmar Persson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala (Spokesperson)
Email: Ingmar.Persson@slu.se
Phone: +46 (0)18-67 15 47
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