The CAT-ACT Beamline at ANKA: A new high energy X-ray spectroscopy facility for CATalysis and ACTinide research

Opportunities and challenges of applying advanced X-ray spectroscopy to actinide and lanthanide N-donor ligand systems

“…In the O K-edge water spectrum [Fig. 19(b)], details for the edge region, similar to those reported for water ice in the literature (Fister et al, 2009;Zubavichus et al, 2006), are well distinguishable. The N K-edge spectrum of crystalline n-Pr-BTP measured for 30 minutes by averaging over 18 detectors is shown in Fig.…”

“…Pu and Am L 3 -edge HR-XANES spectra have been collected at the INE beamline (Rothe et al, 2012;Walshe et al, 2014;Zimina et al, 2016Zimina et al, , 2017 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) light source (KARA storage ring, KIT Campus North). The X-rays emitted from the sample were energy analyzed by a Johann spectrometer and detected by a Vortex silicon drift detector (Iwanczyk et al, 2003).…”

The direct synthesis of hydrogen peroxide from H2 and O2 using Pd–Ga and Pd–In catalysts

“…X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) measurements at Pd K absorption edge were performed at the CAT-ACT beamline 30 (CAT experimental station, using Si (311) double crystal monochromator) of the KIT synchrotron (Karlsruhe, Germany) and the P64 beamline (using Si(111) channel-cut QEXAFS monochromator) of the PETRA III at DESY (Hamburg, Germany) in transmission mode using ionization chambers as detectors. Catalyst samples were measured ex situ as powders packed in 3 mm o.d.…”

ROBL-II at ESRF: a synchrotron toolbox for actinide research

“…INE-KARA ACT-KARA Mars-SOLEIL microXAS-SLS Reference This paper (Rothe et al, 2012) (Zimina et al, 2016(Zimina et al, , 2017) (Llorens et al, 2014;Sitaud et al, 2012) ( Borca et al, 2009) Source SBM (0.6 T) on 6 GeV ring at 200 mA BM (1.6 T) on 2. Inhouse and collaborations Public user facility (47%), CEA dedicated time (33%), inhouse (20%)…”