Watching real catalysis happening

Speaker: Dr. Martin Beye, Stockholm University

Program Description
Catalytic processes play a key role in virtually all solutions that can limit carbon dioxide emissions and thus convert societies towards sustainability. The key steps of catalytic processes though are notoriously hard to study experimentally,  where even tiny theoretical inaccuracies become overwhelming. Modern x-ray spectroscopy technology has undergone crucial steps towards the ability to study such processes at the femtosecond timescale and in a different line of developments at industrial reaction conditions. At Stockholm University, we are currently in the process of developing the merger of both lines into an instrument that would benefit tremendously from the unique properties of LCLS-II for studies with potential large impact to society.