Science@id11

A very few selected ESRF highlights articles are listed here, to give a flavour of the kind of experiments which have previously been performed on the beamline.

The 3D x-ray microscope:

• 3D grain mapping (Highlights 2008)
  Direct observation of 3D grain growth in Al-0.1%Mn
• Monitoring transformations in single grains (Highlights 2007)
  Monitoring metastable grains in steel
• Diffraction from individual grains (Highlights 2001)
  Grain Rotations during Deformation of Polycrystals
• Kinetic measurements on individual grains (Highlights 1999)
  Kinetics of Individual Grains During Recrystallisation

Time resolved x-ray scattering:

• Aerodynamic levitation (Highlights 2007)
  Time-resolved structural study of the glass transition in glass forming liquids
• Phase transitions in polymers (Highlights 2000)
  Inverse Melting in Polymers
• 100ms time resolution to study fast synthesis (Highlights 1999)
  Time-Resolved Studies of Intermetallic-Ceramic Synthesis by Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis

Single Crystal studies:

• Ultra-High Pressure single crystal X-ray diffraction (Highlights 2020)
  Ultra-High Pressure chemistry of Nitrogen: The formation of Metal-Inorganic frameworks with Polymeric Nitrogen Linkers at Megabar conditions
• Observation of weak superlattice reflections from a microcrystal (Highlights 2001)
  Direct Observation of One-dimensional Charge Order in Yb4As3
• Avoiding extinction effects with high energy x-rays (Highlights 1998)
  Bonding electrons viewed by synchrotron radiation

•  Evolution of grain boundarys with 3D experimental movie (Highlights 2020)
  Grain boundary mobilities in polycrystals