Synchrotron Light Sources / Zhentang Zhao -- Beamlines for Materials Science / Tetsuya Ishikawa -- Synchrotron Radiation Experimental Techniques / Renzhong Tai, Jianhua He, Yuying Huang, Jie Wang, Xingyu Gao, Tiqiao Xiao, Jingyuan Ma -- Photon-In Photon-Out Spectroscopic Techniques for Materials Analysis: Some Recent Developments / Tsun-Kong Sham -- Quantitative Femtosecond Charge Transfer Dynamics at Organic/Electrode Interfaces Studied by Core-Hole Clock Spectroscopy / Liang Cao, Xing-Yu Gao, Andrew T S Wee, Dong-Chen Qi -- Experimental Study of Ferroelectric Materials by Coherent X-ray Scattering / Renzhong Tai, Kazumichi Namikawa -- Probing Organic Solar Cells with Grazing Incidence Scattering Techniques / Peter Müller-Buschbaum -- Investigating Strain in Silicon-on-Insulator Nanostructures by Coherent X-ray Diffraction / Gang Xiong, Oussama Moutanabbir, Manfred Reiche, Ross Harder, Ian Robinson -- Synchrotron Soft X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Study of Carbon and Silicon Nanostructures for Energy Applications / Jun Zhong, Hui Zhang, Xuhui Sun, Shuit-tong Lee -- Synchrotron-Radiation-Based Soft X-ray Electron Spectroscopies Applied to Structural and Chemical Characterization of Isolated Species, from Molecules to Nano-objects / Catalin Miron, Minna Patanen, Safia Benkoula -- X-ray Imaging for Nondestructive Analysis of Material Microstructures / Yanan Fu, Honglan Xie, Biao Deng, Guohao Du, Tiqiao Xiao -- Exploring Actinide Materials through Synchrotron Radiation Techniques / Wei-Qun Shi, Li-Yong Yuan, Cong-Zhi Wang, Lin Wang, Lei Mei, Cheng-Liang Xiao, Li Zhang, Zi-Jie Li, Yu-Liang Zhao, Zhi-Fang Chai -- Techniques and Demonstrations of Synchrotron-Based In situ Soft X-ray Spectroscopy for Studying Energy Materials / Wanli Yang, Zhi Liu -- Synchrotron-Based Bioimaging in Cells and In vivo / Ying Zhu, Jichao Zhang, Lihua Wang, Chunhai Fan -- Study on the Toxicology of Nanomaterials by Synchrotron Radiation Techniques* / Yu-Feng Li, Jiating Zhao, Yuxi Gao, Bai Li, Chunying Chen -- Synchrotron Radiation X-ray Imaging in Biomedical Research / Liping Wang, Guo-Yuan Yang, Lisa X Xu -- Integrative SAXS-Driven Computational Modeling of Biomolecular Complexes / Lingshuang Song, Lanyuan Lu, Wei Huang, Krishnakumar M Ravikumar, Jie Meng, Sichun Yang -- Applications of Synchrotron-Based Spectroscopic Techniques in Studying Nucleic Acids and Nucleic-Acid-Based Nanomaterials / Peiwen Wu, Yang Yu, Claire E McGhee, Li H Tan, Abhijit Mishra, Gerard Wong, Yi Lu -- X-ray Microscopy for Nanoscale 3D Imaging of Biological Cells and Tissues / Zhili Wang, Kun Gao, Dajiang Wang, Chunhai Fan, Ziyu Wu, Shiqiang Wei -- Synchrotron-Based X-ray Microscopy for Nanoscale Bioimaging / Ying Zhu, Lihua Wang, Chunhai Fan.

Meeting the long-felt need for in-depth information on one of the most advanced material characterization methods, a top team of editors and authors from highly prestigious facilities and institutions covers a range of synchrotron techniques that have proven useful for materials research. Following an introduction to synchrotron radiation and its sources, the second part goes on to describe the various techniques that benefit from this especially bright light, including X-ray absorption, diffraction, scattering, imaging, and lithography. The thrid and final part provides an overview of the applications of synchrotron radiation in materials science. bridging the gap between specialists in synchrotron research and material scientists, this is a unique and indispensable resource for academic and industrial researchers alike.

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