Just a few atomic layers at the surface can strongly influence how effectively a material binds pollutants from water or how ...

In research published in the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, the electronic structures of organic molecules ...

X-Ray spectroscopy of liquid systems encompasses a suite of element-specific probes that unravel electronic structure and ultrafast dynamics in condensed phases. By tuning incident photon energies to ...

EDS works by focusing an electron beam onto the sample, which causes the sample to emit X-rays. Each element emits X-rays at unique energy levels, allowing for the identification and quantification of ...

Here’s how XANES works: Scientists shine X-ray beams with increasing energy onto a material. Each X-ray beam is a tiny packet of energy. When the energy is high enough to knock a tightly bound ...

X-ray crystallography, like mass spectroscopy and nuclear spectroscopy, is an extremely useful material characterization technique that is unfortunately hard for amateurs to perform. The physical ...

A groundbreaking superconducting X-ray spectrometer has begun operation at BESSY II, giving Europe its first TES-based system and boosting photon detection efficiency by up to 1,000 times. The advance ...

Scientists are working on a new concept for developing the brightest artificial X-ray source in the world, called an X-ray ...