Conveners
AfLS Contribution: AfLS-Contribution
- Philip Oluseyi Oladijo (Botswana International University of Science and Technology)
AfLS Contribution: IMA
- Michele Zema (International Union of Crystallography)
AfLS Contribution
- There are no conveners in this block
AfLS Contribution
- Kudakwashe Jakata (European Synchrotron)
AfLS Contribution
- Marielle AGBAHOUNGBATA (Semi City)
AfLS Contribution
- Marielle AGBAHOUNGBATA (Semi City)
Description
AfLS Contribution
The African continent is the one with the highest rate of urbanisation and it is expected that the local demand of building materials, such as cement, will drastically increase to support demographic, urban and economic growth. Most African countries are net cement importers and this, combined with the need of cutting CO2 emissions associated with Portland cement production and transport, may...
Photon Factory (PF) is a synchrotron radiation facility in KEK Tsukuba campus. We have two rings, PF and PF-AR (Advanced Ring). PF is operated with the beam energy of 2.5 GeV, and PF-AR 6.5 GeV, which provides higher energy regions. There are ~50 end stations including 6 x-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) beamlines: 9A, 9C, 12C, 15A1, NW2A and NW10A.
XAFS is one of the most...
Synchrotron Radiation is a useful tool to clarify the Earth’s deep interior. Here I would like to present the applications of synchrotron radiation to high pressure mineral physics. We apply this intense X-ray to study the properties and phase and melting relations of the Earth’s materials which can be applied to the Earth’s deep interior. We use various techniques such as X-ray diffraction...
Hydrous minerals play an important role in the transport of water from the Earth’s surface deep into the Earth’s mantle. At the same time, water incorporated into the minerals, mainly as OH hydroxyl group, influences their physical properties giving rise to possible seismic anomalies. In the present study, two different minerals, namely stishovite, SiO2, with 5mol% of AlOOH substitution, and...
- Introduction
The mineral gaylussite, Na2Ca(CO3)2·5H2O, was first identified from samples obtained in 1823 during an expedition to Colombia and Venezuela by the French chemist Jean-Baptiste Boussingault and the Peruvian mining engineer and chemist Mariano de Rivero [1]. The mineral samples were collected from Laguna de Urao, a salt lake in Lagunillas, Mérida state, Venezuela, from which...
The Electron Microscope Unit (EMU), provides a central microscopy service to all departments of the University of Cape Town, as well as to other universities, research institutions and private companies. Staff at the Unit are able to advise users on many aspects of electron microscopy, light microscopy and digital imaging and can take on joint research. The Unit offers a versatile, high...
It has long been assumed that mammalian ancestors, the "mammal-like reptiles", had primitive sense organs and nervous system, i.e. they had a small brain, simple behaviour, and unrefined sense of smell, sight, touch, hearing and olfaction. In the last 10 years,however,systematic synchrotron and CT scanning of dozens of these "mammal-like reptile" fossil skulls have unraveled a great...
The SYRMEP (SYnchrotron Radiation for MEdical Physics) beamline has been designed by Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste, in collaboration with the University of Trieste and the INFN, for research in medical diagnostic radiology, material science and life science applications. The use of monochromatic and laminar-shaped beams allows, in principle, an improvement of the clinical quality of images and...
The BAMline is the multipurpose beamline based at the BESSY II synchrotron facility in Berlin [1]. The beamline covers a broad range of energies from 4 up to 110 keV. Several techniques are available including X-ray absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy as well as computed tomography with various spatial resolution dawn to several m-sized beam. In the current talk we summarize our...
