From femtoseconds to hours—measuring dynamics over 18 orders of magnitude with coherent x-rays

F Lehmkühler, W Roseker, G Grübel - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) enables the study of sample dynamics
between micrometer and atomic length scales. As a coherent scattering technique, it …

Relaxation processes and physical aging in metallic glasses

B Ruta, E Pineda, Z Evenson - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Since their discovery in the 1960s, metallic glasses have continuously attracted much
interest across the physics and materials science communities. In the forefront are their …

Photon beam transport and scientific instruments at the European XFEL

T Tschentscher, C Bressler, J Grünert, A Madsen… - Applied Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
Featured Application This article describes the layout of the European XFEL, a soft and hard
X-ray free-electron laser user facility starting operation in 2017. Emphasis is put on the …

Microscopic dynamics of liquid-liquid phase separation and domain coarsening in a protein solution revealed by X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy

A Girelli, H Rahmann, N Begam, A Ragulskaya… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
While the interplay between liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) and glass formation in
biological systems is highly relevant for their structure formation and thus function, the exact …

Emergence of anomalous dynamics in soft matter probed at the European XFEL

F Lehmkühler, F Dallari, A Jain… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Dynamics and kinetics in soft matter physics, biology, and nanoscience frequently occur on
fast (sub) microsecond but not ultrafast timescales which are difficult to probe …

Hierarchical aging pathways and reversible fragile-to-strong transition upon annealing of a metallic glass former

I Gallino, D Cangialosi, Z Evenson, L Schmitt… - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
The change of physical properties during aging and the associated microscopic dynamics of
the Au 49 Cu 26.9 Si 16.3 Ag 5.5 Pd 2.3 bulk metallic glass are investigated using a broad …

Recent applications of synchrotron radiation and neutrons in the study of soft matter

T Narayanan, H Wacklin, O Konovalov… - Crystallography …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The broad range of applications of synchrotron and neutron scattering in the investigation of
soft condensed matter is reviewed. Appropriate combinations of these techniques allow …

Hard x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy methods for materials studies

AR Sandy, Q Zhang, LB Lurio - Annual Review of Materials …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Understanding and designing sophisticated new materials require measurements of not
only their average structural properties but also their dynamic behavior. X-ray photon …

[PDF][PDF] Microsecond hydrodynamic interactions in dense colloidal dispersions probed at the European XFEL

F Dallari, A Jain, M Sikorski, J Möller, R Bean… - IUCrJ, 2021 - journals.iucr.org
Many soft-matter systems are composed of macromolecules or nanoparticles suspended in
water. The characteristic times at intrinsic length scales of a few nanometres fall therefore in …

Disentangling structural and kinetic components of the α-relaxation in supercooled metallic liquids

N Neuber, O Gross, M Frey, B Bochtler… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
The particle motion associated to the α-relaxation in supercooled liquids is still challenging
scientists due to its difficulty to be probed experimentally. By combining synchrotron …