COST Training School: Instrumental techniques for characterization of solids

COST Training School

Instrumental techniques for characterization of solids 

Venue:  Centro de Instrumentación Científica (Scientific Instrumentation Center)- University of Granada. Campus Universitario de Fuentenueva, Paseo Prof. Juan Ossorio, s/n, 18003 Granada (Spain). 

Dates: from 4th to 8th of November 2019.

Language: English

Organizer: C. Ignacio Sainz-Díaz, Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (IACT), CSIC-Universidad de Granada, Granada (Spain). 

Overview

This intensive workshop is within the COST Action CA17120 ‘Chemobrionics’ and is open to PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career investigators from COST full and cooperating members, and from near neighbour countries of the European Union.

This training school has an interdisciplinary nature since the characterization of solids is interesting for many natural sciences: for geology — for experts in the Earth and in other planets — physics, chemistry and biology. The characterization of the structure and microstructure of solids is critical for knowing the formation mechanisms of these solids in processes related with, for example, crystallization, crystal growth, biomineralization and biogeochemistry. The participants will acquire knowledge of instrumental techniques applied to the characterization of solids at multiple scales. The school will offer classes on the fundamentals of these techniques along with demonstrations and practical sessions with expert lecturers in the Scientific Instrumentation Centre of the University of Granada, and a seminar room with computers. Participants may bring their own samples to analyse them in our installations during the practical sessions.

 

Workshop topics

- Crystallography and X-ray diffraction

- X-Ray Microtomography

- Scanning Electron Microscopy

- Transmission Electron Microscopy

- Microstructure and texture analysis

- Atomic Force Microscopy

- Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy

 

International Lecturers

  

C. Ignacio Sainz-Díaz (IACT) Chairman

Antonio Checa (University of Granada and IACT)

Erika Griesshaber (Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany)

Alejandro Rodríguez-Navarro (University of Granada)

Fátima Linares Ordóñez (Scientific Instrumentation Center- University of Granada)

Isabel Sánchez Almazo (Scientific Instrumentation Center- University of Granada)

Wolfgang W. Schmahl (Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany)

Fernando Nieto (University of Granada-IACT)

María del Mar Abad Ortega (Scientific Instrumentation Center- University of Granada)

Elena Macías-Sánchez (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany)

Carlos Gutiérrez-Ariza (IACT)

Elizabeth Escamilla-Roa (Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, Sweden)

Danail Ivanov (Max Planck Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, Germany)

Carlos Pimentel (Univ. Politécnica Madrid)

  

Programme (provisional)

4 November (Monday)

9.00-9.15 Registration-Reception 

9.15-9.30 Welcome and Introduction (Sainz-Díaz)

9.30-11.00 X-ray diffraction (XRD) (Schmahl)

11.00-11.30 Coffee break 

11.30-12.30 X-ray microtomography (XRMT) (Linares)

12.30-14.00 Practical session of XRD-1 (Schmahl)

Practical session of XRMT-1 (Linares)

14.00-15.30 Lunch

15.30-16.30 Microstructure analysis of materials using 2D X-ray diffraction (Rodríguez-Navarro) 

16.30-18.00 Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) (Griesshaber)

5 November (Tuesday)

9.00-10.30  Practical session of XRD-2 (Schmahl)

Practical session of XRMT-2 (Linares)

10.30-11.00  Coffee break

11.00-12.30  Practical session of SEM-1 (Sánchez)

Practical session of texture analysis-1 (Rodríguez-Navarro)

12.30-14.00  Practical session of SEM-2 (Sánchez)

Practical session of texture analysis-2 (Rodríguez-Navarro)

14.00-15.30 Lunch

15.30-17.00 Transmission Electron Microscopy (Nieto)

17.00-18.30  TEM sample preparation methods (Macías-Sánchez)

6 November (Wednesday)

9.00-11.00  Practical session of TEM-1 (Nieto) 

Practical session of Ultramicrotome-1 (Macías-Sánchez)

Practical session sample preparation-1 (Ivanov)

11.00-11.30  Coffee break

11.30-13.30  Practical session of TEM-2 (Nieto) 

Practical session of Ultramicrotome-2 (Macías-Sánchez) 

Practical session sample preparation-2 (Ivanov)

13.30-15.30 Lunch + poster session

15.30-17.00 Microstructure analysis by electron diffraction techniques, Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) (Griesshaber)

17.00-18.30 Atomic Force Microscopy (Pimentel)

7 November (Thursday)

9.00-11.00  Practical session of EBSD-1 (Griesshaber)

Practical session of Atomic Force Microscopy-1 (Linares)

11.00-11.30  Coffee break

11.30-13.30  Practical session of EBSD-2 (Griesshaber)

Practical session of Atomic Force Microscopy-2 (Linares)

13.30-15.00 Lunch 

15.00-16.00 Infrared and Raman spectroscopy (Sainz-Díaz)

16.00-17.30 Electron microscopy studies on biogenic materials (Checa)

8 November (Friday)

9.00-10.30  Computational analysis of texture of crystalline materials. Practical session (Rodríguez-Navarro) 

Practical session of Raman spectroscopy-1 (Escamilla-Roa)

10.30-11.00  Coffee break 

11.00-12.30  Computational analysis of XRMT results. Practical session (Gutiérrez-Ariza)

Practical session of Raman spectroscopy-2 (Escamilla-Roa)

12.30-13.30  Presentations of the posters

13.30  Closure

14.00 Lunch 

The workshop is free of charge and participants will be able to obtain grants for travel and accommodation expenses from the COST Action. Estimated number of places available: 10-15 students. Applicants can send a motivation letter indicating their experience, interest and research topic. The acceptation will be by arrival-order of the applications until reaching the maximum number of places.

Registration was closed on 11 June, 2019 because of too many applicants and reaching the maximum capacity of the school.

Contact: C. Ignacio Sainz-Díaz (ci.sainz@csic.es)