Synopsis

BM01 offers a variety of synchrotron diffraction tools (powder, single crystal, and grazing-incidence surface diffraction, high-resolution reciprocal space mapping, small-angle scattering and combinatorial use of several techniques), mostly focused on the in-situ and operando diffraction experiments in the field of energy-related materials and processes.

Disciplines

• Physics
• Chemistry
• Materials and Engineering
• Environmental Sciences
• Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Life Sciences

Applications

• Energy
• Solid state physics and chemistry
• Advanced materials
• In-situ and operando crystallography

Techniques

• GISAXS - Grazing Incidence Small Angle X-ray Scattering
• GIXRD - Grazing Incidence X-ray Diffraction
• HP-XRD - High-Pressure X-ray Diffraction
• HT-XRD - High-Temperature X-ray Diffraction
• SAXS - Small-Angle X-ray Scattering
• SCXRD - Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction, SC-XRD, SCD, SXRD
• WAXS - Wide-angle X-ray Scattering
• XDS - X-ray Diffuse Scattering
• XRD - X-ray Diffraction
• XRPD - X-ray Powder Diffraction
• XRR - X-ray Reflectometry, X-ray reflectivity, X-ray specular reflectivity

Sample environments

• Electrochemical cells
• Electrolyzer cells
• Low temperatures: CryoVac 2-300K
• High temperatures: locally developed heaters, from 22C to 1500C
• Hydrostatic pressure: 1-1000 bars
• Gas pressure system: 0-40 bars
• Electric field: 0-1 kV, for single crystals and thin films
• 5-cells battery operando rig, gas loading manifold

Detectors

• Dectris Pilatus 2M (WAXS)
• Dectris Pilatus 2M (SAXS)

Reference publications:

Dyadkin, V., Pattison, Ph., Dmitriev, V., Chernyshov, D. A new multipurpose diffractometer PILATUS@SNBL J. Synchrotron Rad., 23, 3, 2016

Marshall, K. P., Emerich, H., McMonagle, C. J., Fuller, C. A., Dyadkin, V., Chernyshov, D. & van Beek, W. (2023). J. Synchrotron Rad. 30, 267-272.

Drozhzhin, O. A., Tereshchenko, I. V., Emerich, H., Antipov, E. V., Abakumov, A. M. & Chernyshov, D. (2018). J. Synchrotron Rad. 25, 468-472.