PROGRAMME MESA+ COLLOQUIUM
Date: Monday, 12 September 2022
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 hrs.
Location: Building Waaier, room 3
Hosted by the MESA+ groups Inorganic Materials Systems and Mesoscale Chemical Systems.
MESA+ COLLOQUIUM BY PROF. DR. MONIEK TROMP, FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, MATERIALS CHEMISTRY, UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN, ENTITLED: PROBING (RE)ACTIVE SPECIES IN CATALYSIS AND BATTERY MATERIALS SCIENCE - APPLICATION OF ADVANCED LAB AND SYNCHROTRON TECHNIQUES
Probing (Re)Active Species in Catalysis and Battery Materials Science– Application of Advanced Lab and Synchrotron Techniques
To understand, tune and optimize the performance of molecules and/or materials, detailed information on the structural and electronic properties, at different length- and timescales, and how they change during performance, is required. Many common lab-based techniques only provide information on specific materials/molecules, or partial information under specific conditions.
X-ray spectroscopy techniques can provide structural as well as electronic characterisation. Since these techniques do not require long range ordering of your system, they are powerful techniques to determine the local and electronic structure of molecules and compounds including amorphous materials and solutions. Moreover, the techniques can be applied under in situ or operando conditions and in a time-resolved manner. Detailed information about the materials in their dynamic chemical active environment can thus be obtained and structure/electronic – performance relationships and reaction mechanisms derived.
In this lecture I will show the strengths and limitations of and developments in X-ray techniques, ranging from novel lab-based systems, to advanced methods at synchrotrons. I will use examples in catalysis and energy materials’ science, ranging from large scale industrial catalysis to novel battery systems.
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