Topic: Multimodal Hard X-ray in-situ Investigations of Synthesis Processes

Primary goal of this workshop will be to bring together a community, exchange ideas and discuss common problems as well as recent technical and beamline developments. We will cover the use of (combinations of) hard X-ray methods as GI-WAXS/XRD, PDF, SAXS and XAS to reveal synthesis processes of a broad spectrum of energy materials (perovskites, MOFs, organics, inorganic functional nanocrystals, etc.). Beyond this we will have discussion sessions with individual beamlines and present our recent developments for in-situ multimodal analysis.

Among the questions to be discussed are:

• Which techniques will help to answer which specific questions?
• How can multimodal / multiperspective insights help to unravel a complex synthesis process?
• How to determine the "observer effect", that actually the reaction is behaving differently during irradiation with X-rays? And how to learn about it and how to minimize it?
• What are available / already used reaction cells? Is there a need for more or more specific ones?
• What are common methodologies to extract meaningful physical / chemical properties such as activation energies etc. from process observations?
• Why do we need multimodal combined techniques? What is the benefit of simultaneous combination vs. dedicated single technique experiments?
• How can multimodal / multi-perspective data be analyzed beyond just correlating timelines of changes?
• What is the compromise in data quality combining different techniques?
• What time resolutions are available / would be required?

If accomondation is required, please contact MAX IV reception to get assistant, reception@maxiv.lu.se 

	MAX IV Laboratory welcomes you to the event
	This event is financed in the framework of the SSF in-FORM project, grant ITM17-0276