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10/23/2017 - 10/23/2017 | Frankfurt am Main

Synchrotron Radiation and Neutrons for Catalysis, Materials Research and Development

How do catalysts, fuel cells, batteries or sensors work on an atomic scale? What changes under reaction conditions with gas exposure, temperature, time or with start up or interruption of the reaction?

This infoday, organised by the German Catalysis Society (GeCatS), provides an overview of the latest research with Synchrotron Radiation and Neutrons which play an important role for understanding catalytic reactions and controlling material properties.

This infoday intends to promote the exchange and provide a platform for new and strengthened collaborations at both academic and industrial levels.It will bring together new and established users from academia, large scale facilities and industry.

Synchrotron radiation and neutrons play an important role for understanding catalytic reactions and controlling material properties. The GeCatS information day aims to give an overview of the latest research in these fields. It is intended to promote the exchange and provide a platform for new and strengthened collaborations at both academic and industrial levels. We will bring together new and established users from academia, large scale facilities and industry.

Synchrotron radiation and neutron sources offer completely new insight. It is not only possible to obtain atomic structural information on functional materials but also to generate an image from the molecular system to the reactor or a battery. Thanks to new beamlines at synchrotron radiation sources, higher brilliance and tremendously improved computer power, tomographic images and 3D-investigations can now be obtained over many orders of length scales. In addition, processes can be directly followed, for example, the preparation of materials as well as the life of a catalyst under reaction conditions, i.e. in gas, liquid or high pressure environment. Another very important aspect is the tracking of temporal changes: new research approaches allow the data acquisition in the ms area, "pump-probe" experiments and X-ray lasers face even much shorter temporal information down to the fs range.

Such facilities are also highly interesting for industrial research and have great future potential. Many methodological synergies between synchrotron and neutron measurement techniques are currently available and lab infrastructure already exists to some extent, or is presently put into position. With the construction of FLASH and XFEL as well as the upgrade of BESSY or PETRA III, completely new possibilities arise in Germany and with MAXIV, ESRF, ILL, ISIS upgrades and the ESS at European level. Now it is important to familiarize the fundamental sciences and applied disciplines equally with the new potential created in recent years and to tap them as best as possible. The techniques and new potentials will only be used optimally if the right infrastructure is established and scientific questions are addressed and tackled in the right way.

Information on participating / attending:

Date:

10/23/2017 - 10/23/2017

Event venue:

DECHEMA-Haus
Theodor-Heuss-Allee 25
60486 Frankfurt am Main
Hessen
Germany

Target group:

Scientists and scholars

Email address:

Relevance:

international

Subject areas:

Chemistry, Energy, Materials sciences

Types of events:

Conference / symposium / (annual) conference

Entry:

07/18/2017

Sender/author:

Dr. Christine Dillmann

Department:

Öffentlichkeitsarbeit

Event is free:

no

Language of the text:

English

URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event57976


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