XAFS Journal Club

The safe use and disposal of UO2 based nuclear fuels relies on the stability of their material properties, under extreme conditions of temperature and irradiation, and with constantly evolving chemical […]

Databases of x-ray fluorescence line energies such as those of Deslattes (2003) and Bearden (1967) are critical to the calibration of any analytical tools that identify elemental compositions by their […]

The conservation of marine archaeological wood is complicated by the presence of iron and sulfur. The sulfur originates from sulfate ions in seawater being transformed by sulfur reducing bacteria, and […]

Using High-Energy-Resolution-Fluorescence-Detection (HERFD), one can sharpen the pre-edge structures revealing their multiplet nature. In ionic systems, they can be calculated from the transition from the 3dN ground state to the […]

We will look at how electrochemically active materials such as batteries can be studied in a concerted way by tuning to relevant resonant x-ray absorption at both the soft and […]

I will present details of the TES Beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source II, covering its design, commissioning, and early results. Its scientific mission includes static and in-situ/operando XRF […]

Modern electronic structure theory and computational methods now permit efficient calculations of ground state properties, as exemplified by the tabulation of many-thousands of structures in the Materials Project . Complementary […]

The presentation will be a collection of thoughts that I find interesting for the experimentalist employing hard X-ray photon-in/photon-out spectroscopy with a wavelength dispersive instrument. I would like to draw […]

The new painting materials used by the Impressionists, Fauvists, and Expressionists were critical components of their break with traditional modes of representation. These artists heavily exploited the synthetic organic and […]

Presented will be a discussion of efforts to employ a wavelet transform (WT) analysis towards the quantitative structural determination of discrete molecular systems using an EXAFS analysis. Unlike a transition […]

Great strides have been made over the past decade in the theory and calculation of X-ray and related spectra. Some advances involve predictions of material properties such as structure or […]

The oxidation state of the solid Earth influences, to a first order, the structure of the planet and the chemistry of rocks, ores and volcanic gases; mass transfer of oxygen […]