The Application of HEXS and HERFD XANES for Accurate Structural Characterisation of Actinide Nanomaterials: The Case of ThO2

Lucia Amidani; Gavin B M Vaughan; Tatiana V Plakhova; Anna Yu Romanchuk; Evgeny Gerber; Roman Svetogorov; Stephan Weiss; Yves Joly; Stepan N Kalmykov; Kristina O Kvashnina

doi:10.1002/chem.202004684

The Application of HEXS and HERFD XANES for Accurate Structural Characterisation of Actinide Nanomaterials: The Case of ThO₂

Chemistry. 2021 Jan 4;27(1):5. doi: 10.1002/chem.202004684. Epub 2020 Nov 18.

Authors

Lucia Amidani^{1

2}, Gavin B M Vaughan³, Tatiana V Plakhova⁴, Anna Yu Romanchuk⁴, Evgeny Gerber^{1

4}, Roman Svetogorov⁵, Stephan Weiss², Yves Joly⁶, Stepan N Kalmykov⁴, Kristina O Kvashnina^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ The Rossendorf Beamline at ESRF, The European Synchrotron, CS40220, 38043, Grenoble Cedex 9, France.
² Institute of Resource Ecology, Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), PO Box 510119, 01314, Dresden, Germany.
³ ESRF-The European Synchrotron, CS40220, 38043, Grenoble Cedex 9, France.
⁴ Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia.
⁵ National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute", 123182, Moscow, Russia.
⁶ CNRS, Grenoble INP, Institut Néel, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38042, Grenoble, France.

PMID: 33210366
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202004684

Abstract

Invited for the cover of this issue is Lucia Amidani and co-workers from the The European Synchrotron, Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Kurchatov Institute, and the Université Grenoble Alpes. The image depicts the atomic structure of the sample being viewed through "atomic googles", which represent the X-ray techniques used in this work. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/chem.202003360.