S. Schöder

TL;DR: Room-temperature ionic liquids with the tris(pentafluoroethyl)trifluorophosphate anion in contact with a charged sapphire substrate were investigated with submolecular resolution and showed strong interfacial layering, akin to the charge inversion effect.

TL;DR: Interfacial density profiles with angstrom resolution near the solid–liquid interface of water in contact with an octadecyl-trichlorosilane layer are shown, providing clear evidence for the existence of a hydrophobic gap on the molecular scale with an integrated density deficit at the solid-water interface.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors carried out a ptychographic scanning coherent diffraction imaging experiment on a test object in order to characterize the hard x-ray nanobeam in a scanning X-ray microscope and obtained a detailed quantitative picture of the complex wave field in the nanofocus with high spatial resolution and dynamic range.

TL;DR: A small gold particle was illuminated with a hard x-ray nanobeam and is reconstructed from its coherent diffraction pattern and a resolution of about 5 nm is achieved in 600 s exposure time.

TL;DR: A review of the existing literature shows that micro-focused hard X-ray spectroscopy (absorption, fluorescence, diffraction), full-field Xray tomography (FTE) and IR spectrograms are the leading synchrotron techniques in the field, and presents illustrative examples of the study of ancient and historical materials for the various methods as mentioned in this paper.