Fwd: Neutron Scattering Applications to Hydrogen Storage Materials

[Alan Hewat]

*+++We kindly invite you to the upcoming Neutron School 2015+++*



*Neutron Scattering Applications to Hydrogen Storage Materials*

*17th-26th of August 2015 at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin*

*Hahn-Meitner Platz 1, 14109 Berlin, Germany*



*SCOPE*

Energy research is an important scientific area today and hydrogen is one
of the most promising sources of energy due to its highest energy density
by weight. The efficient hydrogen storage depends on development of the new
materials. Neutron scattering and -diffraction are powerful,
non-destructive tool for the analysis of structure and dynamics in matter
in a broad space and time domain. High sensitivity to hydrogen makes
neutron scattering techniques ideally suitable to study the process in
hydrogen storage systems. The goal of this school is to introduce
participants to basics of neutron scattering techniques and show how these
techniques can be applied for exploration of hydrogen storage materials.



The school is organized jointly by University of Potsdam, Germany and
University of Tartu, Estonia. It will be held from 17th – 26th of August
2014 at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), Berlin, Germany.

The lectures and practical exercises will give basics to:



-   *Hydrogen economy and hydrogen storage technologies*

-   *Fundamentals of the gas storage  *

-   *Basics of the neutron scattering and in particular in-situ neutron
diffraction *

-   *Characterizing sorption behavior of porous materials by ab-initio
and crystal structure refinements*



Lectures: M. Russina (HZB), H. Kurig (University of Tartu, Estonia), D.
Többens (HZB), D. Wallacher (HZB), M.C. Schlegel  and Roman Svetogorov
(NRC, Mocsow)



*Target group*

The course is primarily aimed at early stage researchers with basics
knowledge in Thermodynamics

and Solid State Physics. It is part of the curriculum of the Faculty of
Mathematics and Sciences at the University of Potsdam, Modul 741A and is
credited with 4 credit points.



*Registration *

If you are interested in attending the school, please follow this link:

*www.helmholtz-berlin.de/events/hydrogen-school
http://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/events/hydrogen-school *





*Please register until May, 25th 2015*



Kind regards



Dr. Moritz-Caspar Schlegel

BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing

BAM-S.4 Ecodesign

Unter den Eichen 87

12205 Berlin / Germany

Phone: +49 (0)30 -8104-3808

Fax: +49 (0)30 -8104-1947

E-mail: *moritz-caspar.schle...@bam.de moritz-caspar.schle...@bam.de*


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Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH

Mitglied der Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren
e.V.

Aufsichtsrat: Vorsitzender Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Joachim Treusch, stv.
Vorsitzende Dr. Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph
Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Anke Rita Kaysser-Pyzalla, Thomas Frederking

Sitz Berlin, AG Charlottenburg, 89 HRB 5583

Postadresse:
Hahn-Meitner-Platz 1
D-14109 Berlin

http://www.helmholtz-berlin.de
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Re: This and that

[Alan Hewat]

Hi Mike. It is great to have the Vice-President of the IUCr contributing
again to the list, so I will have to be serious:-) The problem is, the list
does sometimes become a little moribond without occasional provocation.

The current discussion touched on many interesting subjects - the poor
quality of some published data, the interpretation of multi-phase patterns,
the determination of symmetry and the interpretation of line-broadening,
serial crystallography or single-crystal data from powders, and even
non-crystal techniques such as single-molecule image reconstruction (XFEL)
and single-particle cryo-EM.

These new non-crystal techniques are indeed exciting, and related to much
older tomography techniques as Jon implied, where large numbers of 2D
projections can be reconstructed as a 3D image. A big difference is that
with classical tomography you know the relative orientations, whereas with
the xFEL and cryo-EM techniques you have to determine that for each
molecule - you don't have a crystal to help you. These techniques are far
from the expertise of most of us here, who indeed will still need crystals,
usually as powders for inorganic materials.

I too would like to see the list with more discussion of current techniques
and publications, even if some of the comments appear provocative or even
snarky. At least the members of this list have a certain expertise and sign
their name to their comments, unlike the comments at the bottom of the
Science article:
http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/05/electron-microscopes-close-imaging-individual-atoms

BTW Mike, when I said that all structures are triclinic I was joking;
actually most of them are monoclinic:-)

Alan.
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