First Users at Balder Beamline Seek to Illuminate MXenes

…Local chemical bonding and structural properties in Ti3AlC2 MAX phase and Ti3C2Tx MXene probed by Ti 1s x-ray absorption spectroscopy open_in_new PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH 2, 033516 (2020) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033516 open_in_new

A cloudy route for shipping in the Arctic

…Erik S. Thomson Changes in CCN activity of ship exhaust particles induced by fuel sulfur content reduction and wet scrubbing open_in_new Environ. Sci.: Atmos., 2023, 3, 182 DOI: 10.1039/d2ea00081d open_in_new

Honeycomb silicon carbide: a research surprise

…Bäcke, J. Ekman, S. P. Dash, S. Kubatkin, and S. Lara-Avila Bottom-Up Growth of Monolayer Honeycomb SiC open_in_new Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 076203 – Published 14 February 2023 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.076203 open_in_new

Deciphering corrosion resistance of superalloys

…Delblanc A., Pan J., Lundgren E. Thickness and composition of native oxides and near-surface regions of Ni superalloys open_in_new Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 25 February 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2021.162657 open_in_new

Our Activities

…equipment (upgrades, new branches, new beamlines). Installation and maintenance of vacuum systems and equipment across the facility (including bakeouts, leak detection tests, small repairing jobs and substitution of faulty parts)….

Reaction undercover: boosting the potency of catalysts

…Schnadt, Jan Knudsen Following the Kinetics of Undercover Catalysis with APXPS and the Role of Hydrogen as an Intercalation Promoter open_in_new ACS Catalysis, 2022, 12, 16, 9897–9907 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c00803 open_in_new

Honeycomb borophene: myth or reality?

…Lyalin, A., Taketsugu, T., Vinogradov, N. A., & Vinogradov, A. S. Honeycomb Boron on Al(111): From the Concept of Borophene to the Two-Dimensional Boride open_in_new ACS Nano, 2021 10.1021/acsnano.1c05603 open_in_new