Swiss Summer School on Materials Chemistry 2025:
Materials characterization through X-ray total scattering

This SCS summer school focuses on the characterization of materials through X-ray total scattering, often combined by Pair Distribution Function (PDF) analysis. The materials are typically inorganic nanocrystals, but the technique is increasingly used to study a variety of materials, ranging from organic materials, over metal-organic frameworks, to bulk materials with nanoscale defects. The target audience comprises PhD students and postdocs with some experience in X-ray total scattering, and who want to gain familiarity with the multitude of advanced tools that are available in the total scattering community.

We will discuss a broad set of approaches aiming at increasing the understanding of the participants and providing them with the tools (Diffpy-CMI, Debussy, DISCUS, reverse Monte Carlo fitting) to analyze their data. We combine tutorial lectures with hands-on workshops, including data visualization using python.

Directly after the Summer School and as a recommended part of the training, the Symposium on “Sustainable Materials: Innovations in Advanced Characterization”, will take place at the Adolphe Merkle Institute of the University of Fribourg. https://mat25.scg.ch

Speakers

Dr. Maxwell Terban, co-founder Momentum Transfer, Guest Scientist at Max Planck Institute FKF, Stuttgart, Germany
"PDF on organic molecules and polymers"
Prof. Federica Bertolotti, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria and To.Sca.Lab
"Debussy"
Prof. Kirsten Marie Ørnsbjerg Jensen, University of Copenhagen
"Diffpy CMI"
Prof. Reinhard Neder, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
"Building complex and decorated nanoparticles with DISCUS"
Dr. Simon Boehme, ETH Zurich
"Data visualization with python"

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