Electrochemical energy storage systems can be challenging to characterize as they function far from equilibrium, dominated by kinetics. Heterogeniety of the ion distribution and phase transformations within the electrode can have a significant impact on the electrochemistry of the system, but is not discernable by conventional methods. The benefits of energy dispersive x-ray diffraction...
Developing new renewable energy storage devices is vital for regulating the energy output of intermittent solar and wind energy, which have been expected to occupy increasing proportions of energy sources in light of the environmental issues caused by fossil fuel energy. Amid staggering advances on grid-scale devices and electric vehicles, there has been great interest in exploring potassium...
Under the sponsorship of the Australian Synchrotron International Synchrotron Access Program (ISAP), real-time X-ray imaging was conducted at the SPring-8 synchrotron BL20XU beamline to visualise the rapid formation of Cu6Sn5 for lithium-ion battery anode applications. This presentation describes the experimental setup employed at the BL20XU beamline, and shares the...
X-Ray Free Electron Lasers provide a means of conducting crystallography experiments with remarkable time and spatial resolution. These methods can directly recover the electron density of the materials analysed, however, stringent requirements such as crystal size, number density per exposure, and the crystal order can compromise data quality. Membrane proteins, which do not readily...
Auto-Rickshaw [1,2] is a system for automated crystal structure determination. It provides computer coded decision-makers for successive and automated execution of a number of existing macromolecular crystallographic computer programs thus forming a software pipeline for automated and efficient crystal structure determination.
Auto-Rickshaw (AR) is freely available to the crystallography...
