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Principal Beamline Scientist:
Darrren Batey
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I13-1 generates X-rays in the 6-20 keV range with a coherence length in the experimental hutch of up to 1mm, allowing for a wide range of advanced imaging methods applicable across multiple scientific application areas. Some examples of these applications along with the range of available imaging modalities are described below.
In-situ charging and discharging of battery materials, whilst using ptychographic tomography to reveal the changes in its nanoscale structure and crystallographic deformation.
Ptychographic tomography allows for the imaging of nanoscale pores within catalytic materials, providing critical insights into their sizes and distributions.
3D Bragg CDI reveals the light induced migration of dislocations in Halide Perovskites, an important material in the production of high-performance solar cells and light-emitting devices.
Hard X-ray ptychography provides a great tool for imaging soft biological tissues at I13-1, from 2D imaging of individual chromosome spreads to 3D imaging of whole organ biopsies such as from the lung and brain.
Ptychography provides the waveform incident on the sample along with the sample structure itself. This powerful diagnostic tool was exploited here to design a corrector phase plate for a stack of compound refractive lenses (CRLs).
Ptychographic nano-tomography can be combined with larger scale μ-CT to provide a multiscale analysis of hierarchical materials.
Some application areas require special care and particular enivornmental cells or protective encasements. Here a particulate extracted from the wider Fukushima disaster site was brought to I13-1 for a multimodal and multiscale analysis, combining μ-CT, ptychography, and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) to reveal insights from within the nuclear reactors at the time of the incident.
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