Projects
Analysis of texture and residual stresses by means of X-ray diffraction KU Leuven
Small and wide angle x-ray diffraction, equipped with a sample holder for powders and thin films (grazing angle) and a high temperature chamber. Ghent University
The spectrometer will be used for the characterization of mesoporous ordered materials (small angle) and ceramics, zeolites and metal organic frameworks (wide angle). It also offers the possibility to measure the crystallinity of thin films of thin films and is equipped with a high temperature chamber up to 1200°C.
Fast scanning chip calorimetry combined with time resolved X-ray diffraction: a new view on polymer crystallization and melting KU Leuven
In the last decades, different fast scanning calorimetry (FSC) techniques have been developed, able to operate at scanning rates up to 40000 °C/s and higher. To allow for such rates, sub microgram samples are required. Relating calorimetric events to structural changes in minute amounts of material is a major challenge in high speed calorimetry. To be able to characterize materials under FSC conditions, we developed a unique setup, combining ...
High-throughput powder X-Ray Diffractometer for fast sample screening Ghent University
A consortium of WE06 (Chemistry) and WE04 (Solid State Sciences) asks for a high-throughput powder XRD setup. The number of samples to be analyzed has increased with a factor 10 in the last decade, far beyond the current capacity for two older machines (without sample changer), that are also already “out of service”. One high-throughput machine with automatic sample changer increases the capacity enormously.
Mineralogical and physico-chemical study of the carbonation reactions of secondary raw materials for mineral CO2 sequestration. KU Leuven
Sabbatical Hideaki Mizuno: Serial femtosecond crystallography to reveal structural dynamics of proteins KU Leuven
The aim of the sabbatical is to master the cutting-edge technology of time resolved X-ray crystallography (TR-SFX) with X-ray free electron laser (XFEL). XFEL is the next generation X-ray technology that generates extremely short (10 fs), strong, and coherent pulses. Thanks to these properties, XFEL is a breakthrough in structural biology, especially exploring structural dynamics of proteins in fs to ps time resolution. TR-SFX requires ...