SOLID, ESS

ESS lighthouse on hard materials in 3D (Image is present)

About the project

Hard materials are essential ingredients in the solution for many of society’s most outstanding issues within e.g. energy, production and CO2 storage. Most hard materials have a complex internal structure that extends across length scales from nanometers to centimeter. A major research challenge is therefore to understand and tailor the materials' internal structure on various scales, as strength, efficiency, storage capacity etc. thereby can be radically changed. The vision of our center of excellence is to visualize the internal structure of such materials, their creation and change in use – in 3D and on all the relevant length and time scales.

SOLID is a cross-disciplinary center that seeks to exploit the strong synergy in methods and science across materials science, geoscience, bone research, forensics and archeology. To enable the 3D visualization the group is engaged in building instruments at the world's most powerful neutron and X-ray sources, ESS in Lund and ESRF in Grenoble, and is in charge of two national X-ray infrastructures, DanMAX at MAX IV and DANFIX at DTU as well as the regional data analysis center QIM supplying the advanced data analysis required. 

SOLID also serves a Danish competence center for neutron and X-ray imaging in general, with extensive collaboration with industry.

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Type of project

Center of Excellence funded by the Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education.

People from the SAM section involved

PI: Luise Theil Kuhn,

 
Luise Theil Kuhn

Luise Theil Kuhn Head of Section, Professor Department of Energy Conversion and Storage Mobile: 5141 9371

Estrid Buhl Naver

Estrid Buhl Naver Postdoc Department of Energy Conversion and Storage Mobile: +45 93510744

Domenico Battaglia

Domenico Battaglia Postdoc Department of Energy Conversion and Storage Mobile: +4593510682

Luke Besley

Luke Besley Development Engineer Department of Energy Conversion and Storage Mobile: +45 93510977

Peter Stanley Jørgensen

Peter Stanley Jørgensen Senior Researcher Department of Energy Conversion and Storage Mobile: +45 93511607

Salvatore De Angelis

Salvatore De Angelis Assistant Professor Department of Energy Conversion and Storage Mobile: +4528979498

Jens Wenzel Andreasen

Jens Wenzel Andreasen Professor Department of Energy Conversion and Storage Phone: +45 46774702 Mobile: 2132 6301

Poul Ægidius Norby

Poul Ægidius Norby Professor Department of Energy Conversion and Storage Mobile: +45 21124450