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Electronic structure and lattice dynamics of 1T-VSe2:Origin of the three-dimensional charge density wave

To characterize in detail the charge density wave (CDW) transition of 1T-VSe2, its electronic structure and lattice dynamics are comprehensively studied by means of x-ray diffraction, muon spectroscopy, angle resolved photoemission (ARPES), diffuse and ine ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

A compact approach to higher-resolution resonant inelastic x-ray scattering detection using photoelectrons

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Markus Scholz

The detection of inelastically scattered soft x-rays with high energy resolution usually requires large grating spectrometers. Recently, photoelectron spectrometry for analysis of x-rays (PAX) has been rediscovered for modern spectroscopy experiments at sy ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Beware of beam damage under reaction conditions: X-ray induced photochemical reduction of supported VOx catalysts during in situ XAS experiments

Oliver Kröcher, Davide Ferri, Anna Zabilska, Olga Safonova

In situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is a powerful technique for the investigation of heterogeneous catalysts and electrocatalysts. The obtained XAS spectra are usually interpreted from the point of view of the investigated chemical processes, there ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Quantifying the Solution Structure of Metal Nanoclusters Using Small-Angle Neutron Scattering

Francesco Stellacci, Stefan Guldin, Zhi Luo, Ye Yang, Huayan Yang

Metal nanoclusters are a unique class of synthetic material, as their crystal structures can be resolved using X-ray diffraction, and their chemical formula can be precisely determinated from mass spectroscopy. However, a complete structure characterizatio ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2022

New Reliability Assessment of MEMS Components under Accumulative Testing for Space Applications

Maxime Auchlin

This dissertation proposes a novel accumulative test method for MEMS-based, commercial off-the-shelves inertial measure units (IMUs) from the automotive field. The need for clarification and augmentation of the corpus of knowledge on MEMS reliability for s ...

EPFL2021

Characterizing crystalline defects in single nanoparticles from angular correlations of single-shot diffracted X-rays

Giorgio Rossi, Christoph Bostedt, Alessandro Colombo

Characterizing and controlling the uniformity of nanoparticles is crucial for their application in science and technology because crystalline defects in the nanoparticles strongly affect their unique properties. Recently, ultra-short and ultra-bright X-ray ...

INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY2020

Effects of X-rays on Perovskite Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Yun Luo, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Jérémie Werner, Björn Niesen, Xueying Li

Synchrotron micro- and nanoprobe beamlines have demonstrated great potential to advance photovoltaic devices. Most importantly, their small X-ray spot size has enabled the direct correlation of electrical performance with elemental composition at subgrain ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Experimental station Bernina at SwissFEL: condensed matter physics on femtosecond time scales investigated by X-ray diffraction and spectroscopic methods

Paul Beaud, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Christoph Peter Hauri, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Jochen Rittmann

The Bernina instrument at the SwissFEL Aramis hard X-ray free-electron laser is designed for studying ultrafast phenomena in condensed matter and material science. Ultrashort pulses from an optical laser system covering a large wavelength range can be used ...

International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)2019

Biomedical optical techniques for intracochlear cellular imaging

Marilisa Romito

Imaging the inner ear microanatomy is of great importance for the assessment of the state of the cells responsible for sound detection. Hearing disorders are mainly due to a malfunction of the cochlea, the bone containing the cells inside the inner ear. Un ...

EPFL2019

On isothermality in some commonly used plug flow reactors for X-ray based investigations of catalysts

Dragos-Constantin Stoian, Mark Adrian Newton

We compare two reactor setups commonly used to make operando measurements of catalyst behavior using X-rays in terms of the degree to which they may be considered to yield radial and axial isothermality. We use axial and radial Cu K-edge XANES mapping of c ...

2019

Benign synthesis of quinolinecarboxamide ligands, H(2)bqbenzo and H(2)bqb and their Pd(II) complexes: X-ray crystal structure, electrochemical and antibacterial studies

Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Maryam Bagheri

Two carboxamide ligands, H(2)bqbenzo {3,4-bis(2-quinolinecarboxamido)benzophenone} and H(2)bqb {N,N-bis[(2-quinolinecarboxamide)-1,2-benzene]}, have been prepared using tetrabutylammonium bromide as an environmentally benign reaction medium. Two new Pd(II) ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2017

X‑ray and Neutron Scattering of Water

Livia Eleonora Bove Kado

This review article focuses on the most recent advances in X-ray and neutron scattering studies of water structure, from ambient temperature to the deeply supercooled and amorphous states, and of water diffusive and collective dynamics, in disparate thermo ...

American Chemical Society2016

Crystalline and Soft Materials Based on Dative Boron-Nitrogen Bonds

Nicolas Luisier

The thesis describes the utilization of dative boron-nitrogen bond is used for the construction of new materials. In chapter 2.1, the synthesis of new organogels based on bisimidazolyl ligands and diboronate esters is described. Gels with a critical gel co ...

EPFL2016

Virtual reading of a large ancient handwritten science book

Giorgio Margaritondo, Frédéric Kaplan, Fauzia Albertin, Alessandra Patera, Marco Stampanoni

We present a fundamental development step of a new technique to read and digitize ancient handwritten documents. Chemical analysis by x-ray fluorescence and x-ray tomography enabled us to decipher words and drawings from inside a closed, 200-pages 18 th ce ...

Elsevier2016

Syntheses, characterizations, X-ray crystal structures, and antibacterial activities of Co( II), Ni( II), and Zn( II) complexes of the Schiff base derived from 5-nitro-2hydroxybenzaldehyde and benzylamine

Kurt Schenk

Three new complexes, [(CoL2)-L-II(bzln)(2)] (1), [(NiL2)-L-II(DMF)(2)] (2), and [(ZnL2)-L-II] (3), with the bidentate (NO) Schiff base HL=2-((E)-(benzylimino)methyl)-4-nitrophenol have been synthesized and characterized. [(CoL2)-L-II(bzln)(2)] (1) was init ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2015

Total Syntheses of (−)-Mersicarpine, (−)-Scholarisine G, (+)-Melodinine E, (−)-Leuconoxine, (−)-Leuconolam, (−)-Leuconodine A, (+)-Leuconodine F, and (−)-Leuconodine C: Self-Induced Diastereomeric Anisochronism (SIDA) Phenomenon for Scholarisine G and Leuconodines A and C

Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu, Zhengren Xu

Enantioselective total syntheses of title natural products from a common cyclohexenone derivative (S)-18 were reported. Ozonolysis of (S)-18 afforded a stable diketo ester (R)-17 that was subsequently converted to two skeletally different natural products, ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Lattice dynamics and antiferroelectricity in PbZrO3 tested by x-ray and Brillouin light scattering

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Kaushik Vaideeswaran

We report the results of a comprehensive study of the critical dynamics of the classical perovskite antiferroelectric PbZrO3. The combination of inelastic x-ray and diffuse x-ray scattering techniques and Brillouin light scattering was used. It is found th ...

American Physical Society2014

'Seeing' Atoms: The Crystallographic Revolution

Dieter Schwarzenbach

Laue's experiment in 1912 of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals led to one of the most influential discoveries in the history of science: the first determinations of crystal structures, NaCl and diamond in particular, by W. L. Bragg in 1913. For the fir ...

Swiss Chemical Soc2014

Optical microscopy for imaging through scattering media

Xin Yang

Optical microscopy has been widely used in the life sciences and biological research for several decades. It possesses many advantages over x-ray radiography, computed tomography, ultrasound imaging and magnetic resonance imaging, in terms of being low cos ...

EPFL2014

X-ray micro-diffraction studies of heterogeneous interfaces between cementitious materials and geological formations

Philip Pattison

In the present study the challenge of analyzing complex micro X-ray diffraction (microXRD) patterns from cement clay interfaces has been addressed. In order to extract the maximum information concerning both the spatial distribution and the crystal structu ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014