Nano-materials and Powder Diffraction

EPDIC-10 Workshop

31 August 2006, 8h30 - 18h15

Uni Mail, lecture hall S160

Geneva, Switzerland

8h30 – 9h10 Bogdan Palosz - Institute of High Pressure Physics PAS, Warsaw
Introduction: Structure of nano-crystals as the key to understanding the unique properties of nano-materials

9h10 – 9h40 Iuliana Dragomir-Cernatescu – PANalytical
XRD techniques and instrumentation for nano-materials characterization

9h40 – 10h00 Robert L. Snyder - School of Mat. Sci. and Eng., Georgia Tech
Diffraction analysis on individual nano-belts

10h00 – 10h30 Break

10h30 – 11h15 Simon Billinge - Michigan State University
Atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis of x-ray powder diffraction to study nanostructured materials

11h15 – 12h00 Stavros Nicolopoulos - Technical University of Valencia & NANOMEGAS
From powder diffraction to structure resolution of nanocrystals by precession electron diffraction

12h00 – 13h00 Lunch

13h30 – 14h15 Thomas E. Proffen - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Total scattering: a 'complete' structural fingerprint of nanoparticles

14h15 – 15h00 Lutz Brügemann - Bruker AXS
Small Angle X-Ray Scattering - Principles & Applications

15h00 – 15h45 Paolo Scardi - MSE University of Trento
XRD Line Profile Analysis for the Study of Nano-crystalline Materials

15h45 – 16h00 Break

16h00 – 16h45 Ian Robinson - University College, London
Phasing of Coherent x-ray Diffraction from Nano-crystals: Beating the Powder Average

16h45 – 17h30 Jacek Krzywinski - Institute of High Pressure Physics PAS, Warsaw
X-Ray Laser: Opening New Perspectives in Nano-science

17h30 – 18h15 Izabela Szlufarska - MSE University of Wisconsin
Simulation and Diffraction: Virtual and Real Experiments for Structural Studies of Nanocrystals