ForMAX Workshop

11 Jun 2015, 10:30 → 12 Jun 2015, 13:00 Europe/Stockholm

MAX IV Laboratory

A meeting with scientific and technical presentations by expert users on synchrotron radiation techniques within fields of relevance for the forest and pulp industry.

Possibilities for interaction and presentations by R&D experts from the indus­try on current and future needs on research opportunities.

Specific discussions regarding the ForMAX beamline.

Guided tour at the research facility.

Through experiments on beamlines at MAX IV, unique information can be obtained for academic as well as industrial research. At ForMAX, a proposed beamline that is tailored after the needs forest and pulp industry extra efforts to gather relevant experimental techniques have been made.

At this workshop, experts that are already today using these techniques on relevant systems, e.g. cellulose will present examples on what information is possible to achieve.

Speakers:
Daniel Söderberg, KTH
Sven Lidin, LU
Lennart Bergström, SU
Fredrik Lundell, KTH
Stephen Hall, LTH
Experts from MAX IV Laboratory

Registration deadline: June 8th

Workshop fee: Commercial participants 3 000 SEK, academic participants 1 000 SEK (please observe that dinner and lunch is included but not travel & lodgning)

Thursday, 11 June

10:30 → 10:45 Welcome – Christoph Quitmann & Daniel Söderberg

10:45 → 11:30 Introduction to the world of advanced characterization – Sven Lidin, LU

11:30 → 12:30 Lunch

12:30 → 13:15 Introduction to the synchrotron facility, Yngve Cerenius, MAX IV

Basic design – The machine and the beamline
MAX IV – setting a new standard among synchrotrons
MAX IV – as a project
MAX IV – as a user facility, access modes etc

13:15 → 14:15 The Measurement Toolbox –​ Quick introduction to three synchrotron based experimental techniques with high industrial interest, including case studies/ examples with relevance for forest and/or pulp industry

SAXS/WAXS – Tomas Plivelic, MAX IV
EXAFS – Katarina Norén, MAX IV
Imaging techniques – Stephen Hall, LTH

14:15 → 14:45 ForMAX – Daniel Söderberg, WWSC

A dedicated beamline for academic and industrial research and development related to forest materials and processes

14:45 → 15:45 Tour of MAX IV including coffee

15:45 → 16:45 Investigating material mechanics through 4D synchrotron imaging - Stephen Hall, LU

16:45 → 18:00 Short presentations from industrial participants

Who they are and their interest and need for materials, processes and advanced characterization techniques

18:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Friday, 12 June

08:15 → 09:00 Process development for nano-structured cellulose materials – Fredrik Lundell, KTH

09:00 → 09:45 Tackling cellulose-related questions with synchrotron-based methods – Germán Salazar Alvarez, SU

09:45 → 10:15 Examples of research that would benefit from ForMAX

Wallenberg Wood Science Center
Oulu University

10:15 → 10:30 Coffee

10:30 → 11:30 Discussion regarding the ForMAX beamline

Needs specific to forest materials and processes
Possible unique features of the beamline