A large-area, latest-generation detector for X-ray structure determination
Name of applicant
Jesper Bendix
Title
Professor
Institution
University of Copenhagen
Amount
DKK 753,888
Year
2022
Type of grant
Research Infrastructure
Summary
Scattering of X-rays of crystalline phases is the most direct and most applicable technique for establishing the exact atomic geometry of chemical compounds. The most central societal questions concerning energy, climate change, health and sustainability, all have important components of material development. This entails structure elucidation by single-crystal diffraction for e.g. battery technology, solar cells, catalytic converters, medicine, as well as for future technologies involving superconductivity and quantum information processing. The project encompasses installation of a state-of-the-art detector for sing-crystal structure determination. This will broaden the range of users of this technique and the range of crystalline systems which can studied.