Projects

Before deciding whether to start a research project, think well:

• Why does the topic interest YOU?

• What is thought/known/done before this work?

• What is the question everybody is asking?

• What you expect to be the key findings of your work?

• What’s the main message for your audience reading the eventual paper?

• How does new data change the thinking, or support current approach, or open new avenues or research?

• Before starting to write a paper, ask the same questions again!

Upcoming beamtimes (anyone can participate)

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General topics

Old stuff:

• Nanoconfined water in carbon nanotubes
• Energy materials
• Functional materials

Valence excitations

• YBCO, manuscript in preparation

• Crystal field excitations in NiO using NIXS with 60-meV resolution (Simo)

• Temperature dependence of crystal field excitations in CuO using NIXS (Simo)

• SrTiO/LaAlO (Kari)

• CO2, N2 and He gases (Juho)

X-ray Raman

• XRS aka NIXS (4d-4f) of rare earth compounds (LaPO4, CePO4, PrPO4, NdPO4, ErPO4, ...) (Simo)

• Gas phase N2, N2O, CO2 and N2, CO2: Two PCCP articles published (2011,2013)

• Gas phase dimerisation, acetic acid (experiment at ID20 ESRF Oct-2013)

• Water T and p dependence: PNAS article published (2013)

• Water general

• NaOH, HCl:water, O K edge, calculations ongoing (Christoph)

• LiCl:water, O K edge, Li K edge, manuscript in preparation (Iina)

• Spectroscopic predictions for aerosols (signatures of clustering of sulphur acid, water, amines etc.) (Johannes)

• H2SO4:H2O (Johannes)

• High-pressure silicon, phases I,II,V,XI, Si L2,3 edge (Christoph)

• Si:Ba clathrate, Ba N edge (Christoph)

• Water:cetrimonium bromide, O K edge (Christoph)

• Water - methanol, ethanol, propanol, O K edge, exp analyzed, calculations ongoing (Iina)

Monohydroxy alcohols (e.g. 2-ethyl-1-hexanol, 2E1H, C8H17OH), T dependence.

• Experiment at P01/PETRA III (summer 2013); Simulations with Gromacs + spectrum calculations.
• PRL 107, 118304 (2011), C. Gainaru et al.

Compton

• 1- and 2-propanol

• Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide):water (published 2014)

• Formic acid:water

• Ionic liquids

• TMAO:water (ESRF experiment by Lehmkühler in autumn 2013)

• Vanadium oxide

• Beryllium, pressure dependence

Computational projects

• Completeness-optimized basis sets: Two JCP articles published (2012, 2013)

• Dye-sensitized solar cell systems (optically active molecule and/or TiO2 surface and/or solvent) (Ali,Mikko)

• Multiband solar cell materials (Javad,Mikko)

• Iron pnictides (Mikko)

• Time-resolved x-ray spectroscopy