Speaker
Dr
Giuliana Aquilanti
(Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste)
Description
The XAFS beamline at Elettra is dedicated to x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). It is a standard energy scanning XAS beamline built on a bending magnet x-ray source. It is designed to cover a large energy range: from 2.4 to 27 keV. The XAFS beamline aims to meet the needs of researchers in the area of conventional XAS. It is therefore conceived to be general purpose and open to a very wide community of users in many different fields. Its assets are to perform XAS with an excellent signal-to-noise ratio, stability, versatility, reliability and high automation level.
In this presentation I will highlight the most recent results obtained at the XAFS beamline. These cover the most classical fields of XAS such as chemistry and materials science evidencing how the technique can play an important role in connecting the structural properties and the functional characteristics of complex systems. As well, I will show how XAS can be applied for answering questions related to the study of alternative sources of energy, nowadays one of the main research subjects globally. Finally, I will discuss results from other disciplines such as environmental science and archaeometry. For these the use of synchrotron radiation has become widespread only recently because of the need of a multidisciplinary approach to find conservation strategies in both fields.
Author
Dr
Giuliana Aquilanti
(Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste)
