Synchrotron-based Research on Geomaterials

The availability of synchrotron radiation for research in geoscience opens new experimental possibilities by overcoming the former limitations such as detection limit and spatial resolution. Our group uses a broad energetic range of synchrotron radiation from high-energetic X-rays down to low-energetic infrared radiation for research mostly in-situ at high pressures in diamond anvil cells (DAC).

X-ray diffraction
X-ray fluorescence
X-ray Absorption spectroscopy (XANES/EXAFS)
X-ray Raman scattering (XRS)
Infrared spectroscopy

Contact: Hauke Marquardt, Monika Koch-Müller, Sergio Speziale, Christian Schmidt, Max Wilke

Partners:
Karen Appel, Manuela Borchert, Wolfgang Caliebe, Roman Chernikov, Hanns-Peter Liermann, Anke Watenphul, Edmund Welter, Hasan Yavas - Deutsches Elektronensynchrotron DESY Hamburg, A Research Centre of the Helmholtz Association

Christian Sternemann, Metin Tolan - Technical University Dortmund

Pieter Glatzel, Kristina Kvashnina, Marco Moretti, Sakura Pascarelli, Laura Simonelli, Remi Touculou - European Synchrotron Radiation Facility ESRF, Grenoble, France

Ulrich Schade - Helmholtz Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy, Bessy II