Zoom webinar | Live stream on Youtube Stefan Facsko, Coordinator of ReMade@ARI Ion Beam Center, Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V., Dresden Germany   "Earth Overshoot Day", on which we have consumed more than the sustainable resources available to us, is continuously shifting towards the beginning of a year. In …

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Zoom webinar | Live stream on Youtube   Jakub Drnec, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France Complete physico-chemical operando characterization of electrochemical devices in whole, or it’s constituent materials separately, is necessary to guide the development and to improve the performance. High brilliance synchrotron X-ray sources play a crucial role in this respect as …

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Zoom webinar | Live stream on Youtube   Sarah ROGERS ISIS Neutron and muon source, United Kingdom Traditional Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) is a powerful technique for determining microstructure in the range of tens to thousands of Angstroms.  SANS on a pulsed source, such as ISIS, has the significant advantage of a wide simultaneous Q …

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Zoom webinar | Live stream on Youtube   Ion beam analysis refers to established methods to investigate the material properties by inspecting the interaction of energic ions. The interaction is distinctly different from other probes, like X-rays, electrons, neutrons etc. This enables to probe the properties in a complementary manner compared to other characterization techniques. …

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Zoom webinar | Recording on Youtube Demetrios Anglos Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece and IESL-FORTH anglos@uoc.gr; anglos@iesl.forth.gr Optical technologies, including laser sources, detectors, spectrometers, optical fibers and light collection systems have advanced over the past years in a way that has facilitated engineering of various types of field-deployable spectrometers capable of supporting …

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Zoom webinar | Live stream on Youtube Eric HIRSCHMANN Institute of Radiation Physics Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (HZDR) The positron research infrastructure (pELBE) at the ELBE linear accelerator at the HZDR is a collection of methods and instruments that characterize defects, determine open volumes and investigate open or closed microporous systems using positron annihilation spectroscopy. …

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Zoom webinar By Ralph Gilles, Technical Univeristy of Munich, Germany Rechargeable batteries play an important role in the Green Deal activities. Using sophisticated methods, a deeper understanding of the processes in electrochemistry is gained in order to further improve battery components and complete cells. In particular, non-destructive studies examining Li-ion batteries in situ/operando represent a …

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Zoom webinar | Live stream on Youtube By Belén Ballesteros From Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2, Spain) This seminar aims to showcase the possibilities of advanced electron microscopy for materials characterisation. First, the basic theoretical and practical concepts of electron microscopy will be introduced, such as types of electron microscopes, main characteristics and …

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Zoom webinar | Live stream on Youtube   By Iva Bogdanović Radović From Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI), Laboratory for Ion Beam Interactions (LIBI) (Croatia) Passing through the material, energetic ions lose their energy in many interactions with electrons in atomic shells and atomic nuclei. These interactions are the basis for different ion beam analysis (IBA) …

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Zoom webinar | Live stream on Youtube   Peter Fouquet Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble, France The European Neutron Source   The development of new materials for “green” energy production and storage is a key activity for the progression towards a circular economy. Neutron spectroscopy provides an ideal supporting tool for this development, because neutrons are …

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Zoom webinar | Youtube video   Giulio Cerullo Politecnico di Milano, Italy   Abstract:  Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy uses sequences of ultra-short light pulses (with femto- to picosecond duration) to study dynamical processes in atoms, molecules, nanostructures and solids by measuring the photoinduced variations of sample absorption. This technique finds broad interdisciplinary applications ranging from …

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