Welcome to the May 2022 addition of the Scienta Omicron Newsletter that provides you with the latest news in surface science, materials science, and nanotechnology research and instrumentation.
In this issue you will find the Scienta Omicron Spring 2022 Newsflyer; ‘Result of the Month’ where the publications´ authors share additional insights about their recent research results, research news about Scientists Solving the Mystery About the Active Phase in Catalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction. You will also find news about our featured product, recent research publications, and recently installed systems. As well as information about Scienta Omicron open positions, services trainings, and newly updated product and services information.
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Welcome to the Scienta Omicron Newsflyer for Spring 2022 with an opening message from our new CEO Mr. Henrik Bergersen on the importance of filling customer needs and providing values to our customers. The BAR XPS for instance addresses the biggest challenge in APXPS, measuring at industrial relevant pressures. Read more about the BAR XPS break-through results at world record pressures; EVO Compact – the MBE System for 2D material research; new DFS30 analyser with unique electronic alignment capability for µARPES; successful analyser PEAK software upgrade and integration with the control system at SPring-8 synchrotron in Japan; and high resolution qPlus imaging with CO terminated Tip using the INFINITY SPM Lab at the Aix-Marseille University.
Atomic Insight into the Interfacial Effect on the Molecular Solvation
In this work, Duanyun Cao & Jing Guo et al. probe the microsolvation of methanol in water on copper surfaces, using qPlus-based nc-AFM with a CO-terminated tip at 4.8 K. The configurations of water and methanol molecules in the complexes, including the detailed OH directionalities and H-bonding networks could be identified unambiguously by the height-dependent AFM images in combination with theoretical simulations. They demonstrate the excellent cooperativity between the water and methanol molecules through hydrogen-bonding in the formation of ordered clusters on both Cu(110) and Cu(111) surfaces, which are composed of pentagonal and hexagonal rings. All the experiments were carried out with an ultra-high vacuum Scienta Omicron POLAR-STM/AFM combined system operated at 4.8 K using a qPlus sensor equipped with a W tip.
Scientists Solve the Mystery About the Active Phase in Catalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction
An international research team led by researchers of Stockholm University has for the first time been able to study the surface of a copper-zinc catalyst when carbon dioxide is reduced to methanol. The results – obtained at DESY´s brilliant light source PETRA III – are published in the scientific journal Science. A better knowledge of the catalytic process of methanol synthesis and the possibility of finding even more efficient materials opens the door for a green transition in the chemical industry.
Researchers: Peter Amann, Bernhard Klötzer, David Degerman, Norbert Köpfle, Thomas Götsch, Patrick Lömker, Christoph Rameshan, Kevin Ploner, Djuro Bikaljevic, Hsin-Yi Wang, Markus Soldemo, Mikhail Shipilin, Christopher M Goodwin, Jörgen Gladh, Joakim Halldin Stenlid, Mia Börner, Christoph Schlueter & Anders Nilsson
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