Project

High-throughput powder X-Ray Diffractometer for fast sample screening

Code

01B01520

Duration

01 December 2020 → 30 November 2022

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Pascal Van Der Voort

Research disciplines

Natural sciences
- Crystallography
- Phase transformations
- Solid state chemistry
- Synthesis of materials
- Chemical crystallography

Keywords

X-Ray Diffraction Solid State Chemistry Crystalline Materials Powder analysis High throughput analysis

Project description

A consortium of WE06 (Chemistry) and WE04 (Solid State Sciences) asks for a high-throughput powder XRD setup. The number of samples to be analyzed has increased with a factor 10 in the last decade, far beyond the current capacity for two older machines (without sample changer), that are also already “out of service”. One high-throughput machine with automatic sample changer increases the capacity enormously.