Data: 16 de Junho
Hora: 12h00
Local: Departamento Química FCT-UNL
Abstract
To fully address emerging challenges, scientists must investigate Real materials, in Real conditions and in Real Time. The intricacy of such challenges is far beyond the conventional scientific disciplines (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Material Science, Geosciences, and imaging) and requires the use of unique large scale facilities that allow scientists to investigate materials at the atomic scale, thus enabling them to perform discoveries that translate into innovations and technology breakthrough. Synchrotron and Neutron sources are more and more used to these ends also facing an increased demand for industrial applications. Compared to conventional laboratory X-rays the spatial resolution and in-depth information achievable can be increased by several orders of magnitude by using synchrotron radiation and neutrons, in there complementarity. The application of neutron radiation is well adapted to the field of organic and bio-macromolecular structures using the Hydrogen-Deuterium effect. It is also well suited to characterize molecular vibrations throughout low-energy spectroscopy, and to the characterization of magnetic structures and excitations. Synchrotron radiation is increasingly applied to macromolecular crystallography and in particular to the elucidation of protein and virus crystal structures.
Biography
To fully address emerging challenges, scientists must investigate Real materials, in Real conditions and in Real Time. The intricacy of such challenges is far beyond the conventional scientific disciplines (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Material Science, Geosciences, and imaging) and requires the use of unique large scale facilities that allow scientists to investigate materials at the atomic scale, thus enabling them to perform discoveries that translate into innovations and technology breakthrough.
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