| DATE: |
2010-12-16 15:00 - 16:00 |
| PLACE: |
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| TITLE: |
Recent advances in synchrotron techniques, new opportunities in organometallics, phase systems, clusters and nanoroughness. |
| SPEAKER: |
Dr. Christopher Chantler, Associate Professor & Reader, (Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics (Port Melbourne, ) |
| LANGUAGE: |
English |
| ABSTRACT: |
Crystallographic and XAFS techniques have been the mainstay of mainstream chemistry and biology at synchrotrons, now augmented with excellent IR and other facilities. Typical questions look at structure, bonding, active centres and dynamics, catalysts and biologically active organometallics.
Materials science (chemistry, physics and engineering) are increasingly investigating complex and nano-systems. Tools for greater insight experimentally, theoretically and analytically are emerging. This talk will look at:
1. organometallics, catalysts and enzymes - what we can do now which we could not do a few years ago;
2. dilute and disordered systems -where the future may lie; and
3. XAFS and XERT and the measurement of dynamical bond lengths and thermal ellipsoids and
4. new fields of nano-roughness and inelastic mean free paths.
I shall mention a few theoretical (chemistry and physics) developments which help to achieve these opportunities.
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