Abstract
After a short introduction into synchrotron techniques, I present a national synchrotron facility, Swiss-Norwegian BeamLines. SNBL focusses on material science research with a special emphasis on "in-situ" and "operando" experimentation. More precisely, SNBL specializes in studying functional materials and materials chemistry by multi-probe synchrotron techniques. Two complimentary beamlines, BM01 and BM31, are available to the Norwegian user community.
BM31's combines powder diffraction and spectroscopy tools and is typically applied for catalysis, fuel cell, electro- and environmental chemistry and material synthesis research.
BM01 is specialized in crystallography and diffraction with single crystals, powders, and films. Research done at BM01 is typically in the fields of ferroelectrics, photovoltaics, gas absorbing MOFs, and batteries.
Both stations provide tailor made operando and in-situ equipment for all mentioned applications. Together, both stations offer a unique portfolio of synchrotron tools for material chemistry, solid state physics, and physical chemistry. A list of experimental options, that is recently augmented by PDF (BM31) and SAXS (BM01), is reviewed, together with information on how to get the beamtime.
This presentation is focused on BM01 and the science one does here is illustrated with several examples. Two specificities of synchrotron experiments, radiation impact and big data management, will also be discussed. Last not least, we wish to discuss your research priorities in order to further develop BM01 to your future needs.