ID15A - Materials Chemistry and Materials Engineering

Synopsis

ID15A is dedicated to applications of high energy X-ray radiation to materials chemistry.

Disciplines

• Chemistry
• Physics
• Environmental Sciences
• Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Materials and Engineering
• Life Sciences
• Cultural Heritage

Applications

• Solid-state chemistry
• Nanomaterials
• Batteries
• Catalysis
• Glasses and disordered systems
• Hierarchical structures

Techniques

• Diffraction contrast tomography
• Imaging, phase-contrast
• Pair-distribution function analysis
• Time-resolved WAXS
• X-ray scattering
• XRF - X-ray fluorescence
• Pump-probe
• Microbeam

Sample environments

• Biologic SP-300 potentiostat (1 µA - 10 A)
• Gas loading system with remote-controlled mass-flow controllers and electrovalves
• DRIFTS spectrometer with temperature/gas reaction chamber (300-800 K)
• Flow-through cell for liquid-phase and gas-phase reactions (300-500 K)
• Cryostream (80-500 K)
• Capillary oven (300-1300 K)

Detectors

• Pilatus3 X 2M CdTe (WAXS)
• Pilatus4 XE 4M CdTe (WAXS)
• PCOedgeHS (imaging)
• Mirion HPGe-CMOS and Hitachi Vortex Si-drift (Fluorescence)

Reference publications

ID15A at the ESRF – a beamline for high speed operando X-ray diffraction, diffraction tomography and total scattering. G. Vaughan, et al. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 27, 515–528 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577519016813

Characterization and calibration of DECTRIS PILATUS3 X CdTe 2M high- hybrid pixel detector for high-precision powder diffraction measurements. G. Vaughan, et al. Journal of Applied Crystallography (2024) https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576724010033

Highlights

• Complete 3D picture of next-generation solid-state batteries
• Multielement Z-tag imaging by X-ray fluorescence microscopy for next-generation multiplex imaging
• Piezoelectric ceramics go textured
• Temperature mapping in Li-ion batteries during fast discharge
• Hard X-rays help to understand the formation of the pearl oyster shell
• The history of one of the oldest objects in the Solar system unveiled
• Spatial dynamics of lithiation and lithium plating during high-rate operation of graphite electrodes
• Spatially quantifying crystallographic heterogeneities in operating Li-ion electrodes
• Spatially resolving the state of charge in Li-ion electrodes
• Operando imaging of a methane-reforming catalyst bed