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13. Juni 2023
SHL 13062023

Tender X-rays show how one of nature’s strongest bonds breaks

Short flashes of an unusual kind of X-ray light at SwissFEL and SLS bring scientists closer to developing better catalysts to transform the greenhouse gas methane into a less harmful chemical.

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27. Juli 2021
An old violin

Secret of Stradivarius violins revealed

Research Using Synchrotron Light Large Research Facilities Materials Research Miscellaneous

As an international team of researchers discovered, the old Italian masters Stradivari and Guarneri relied on unexpected chemical additives in making violins.

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8. März 2021
Pazyryk carpet fibre

Insights into the world’s oldest pile carpet

High-resolution XRF imaging of the specific metal distribution within wool fibers at the PHOENIX beamline gives insights into traditional oriental dyeing procedures.

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27. Oktober 2020
maize

Phosphorus recovery from wastewater: Nitrogen K-edge micro-XANES spectroscopy unravels the effects of nitrification inhibitor on fertilizer phosphorus uptake of maize

Phosphorous containing fertilizers are essential to feed the growing population on earth. Because phosphorus (P) is a scarce resource in the European Union, recovering P from wastewater and sewage sludge has become extremely important. However, the availability of P to the plant is limited in such recycling P fertilizers. To overcome this problem, co-fertilization with nitrogen (N) in the form of ammonium and nitrification inhibitors, is a promising pathway. By applying the novel N K-edge micro-XRF and micro-XANES methods at the PHOENIX beamline on the soils, we could verify that a nitrification inhibitor indeed promotes ammonium fixation in fertilized soils, and hence causing a slow-release of temporarily fixed ammonium. This deceases local pH, making P better available to plants.

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27. Oktober 2020
alloy

Uncovering the short range order and local distortions in high entropy alloys using EXAFS

High entropy alloys (HEA), medium entropy alloys and multi-phase compositionally complex alloys (CCA) have gained much attention in the last 20 years because of their outstanding mechanical properties. Such baseless alloys provide different open questions on local chemical ordering, lattice distortions, orbital hybridization and/or charge transfer which define the very nature of alloys’ mechanical properties. By combining EXAFS measurements in the rarely served tender x-ray range  (PHOENIX-SLS, Al K-edge) and at higher X-ray energies (BM08-ESRF, transition metal K-edges), local chemical ordering in a CCA, Al8Cr17Co17Cu8Fe17Ni33 was quantified showing preferred Al-Ni and Al-Cu pairs. In addition, slight structural distortions, much lower than the predicted ones of metallic radii, were found.

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20. Oktober 2020
Na_battery

Sodium-ion batteries: a study of the structural and electrochemical properties of the layered cathode material NaxMnyO2

Being able to replace Lithium by the much more abundant sodium for new batteries would be an important asset for energy storage. For example, NaxMnyO2 cathodes would offer a high initial specific charge and a relatively high working potential. Despite long, intensive research of the electrochemical properties of these materials, the open key question remains unresolved: Where does the sodium goes to in the charging /discharging process. Unfortunately, the (de)sodiation mechanism in those materials was not completely understood, especially in terms of types of phases in which Na stays during cycling, which in turn impeded the optimization of its performance. Using the unique tender energy range of the PHOENIX beamline, we used Na K-edge X-ray absorption spectra measurements to gain a better understanding about the Na atomic positions in phases appearing during cycling. Thanks to this unique method, we established that observed high capacity in NaxMnyO2 is due to the high-voltage phase being an intergrowth structure between P2 and O2 type phases were Na ions stays both in tetrahedral and octahedral sites.

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18. Oktober 2020
Li_battery

Lithium-ion batteries: following the redox reaction of oxygen and transition metals in the Li1.2Mn0.6Ni0.1Co0.1O2 electrode using X-ray absorption spectroscopy

The new generation of cathode materials from the Li-rich NMC (nickel-manganese-cobalt) group are under constant investigation due to their extremely high energy densities resulting from redox reactions involving both transition metals and lattice oxygen. Although a lot of research has been done so far, the exact mechanism of lithium (de)insertion in those materials, especially the reactions involving redox reactions of lattice oxygen is still elusive. Due to the particular battery design the observed reactions starts at the surface of the electrode that contacts the electrolyte and, as the reaction continues, goes deeper into the bulk structure. In order to follow the reactions taking place in the Li-rich NMC materials we aimed to exactly distinguish and characterize the phase transitions taking place on the surface and within the bulk of the Li1.2Mn0.6Ni0.1Co0.1O2 electrode. To do so we used comprehensive XAS measurements at the PHOENIX beamline, taking advantage of the unique options to perform in situ experiments in the soft energy range to study both the Oxygen K edge and the L edges of Ni, Co and Mn.

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15. Oktober 2020
Root

Root induced soil deformation influences Fe, S and P: rhizosphere chemistry investigated using synchrotron XRF and XANES

Taking up nutrients from the soil is key to plant growth. Understanding and potentially controlling this process is important when growing food but also when caring for natural habitats, which are the basis for life on Earth. Typically, nutrients are tightly chemically bound to the soil, and roots need to create a chemical environment to harvest nutrients.  Here we use the special capabilities X-ray microscopy with tender X-rays to study the chemical changes of sulfur, phosphorus, and iron in the vicinity of plant roots (rhizosphere). We can show that Fe is slightly reduced, S is increasingly transformed into sulfate (SO42−) and phosphorus (P) is increasingly adsorbed to humic substances in this enrichment zone around the root.

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14. Oktober 2020
ASR

Refined diagnosis of the “concrete disease”

When bridges, dam walls and other structures made of concrete (cement and aggregates such as sand/gravel) are marked by map-like cracks after a few decades, the diagnosis is ASR (alkali-silica Reaction), in popular science terms also called “concrete disease or concrete cancer”.  The ASR-induced microscale crack initiation can hardly be modelled, mainly due to our limited knowledge of the structure and property of the ASR products. Using X-ray absorption micro-spectroscopy at the PHOENIX beamline of the Swiss Light Source (SLS) allowed a refined diagnosis of ASR products by providing new insights into the crystallinity and structure of ASR products with micro-scale resolution.

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