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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Invitation<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Neutron Scattering Applications to Hydrogen Storage Materials<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">7<sup>th</sup>-17<sup>th</sup> of August 2017 at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Hahn-Meitner Platz 1, 14109 Berlin, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Energy research is an important scientific area today and hydrogen is one of the most promising sources of energy due to its highest
energy density by weight. The efficient hydrogen storage depends on development of the new materials. Neutron scattering and -diffraction are powerful, non-destructive tool for the analysis of structure and dynamics in matter in a broad space and time domain</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">.
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">High sensitivity to hydrogen makes neutron scattering techniques ideally suitable to study the process in hydrogen storage systems. The goal of this school is to introduce participants to
basics of neutron scattering techniques and show how these techniques can be applied for exploration of hydrogen storage materials.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We kindly invite you to the upcoming
<b>Neutron School 2017 “<i>Neutron Scattering Applications to Hydrogen Storage Materials 201<span style="color:black">7</span></i></b><i>”</i>. The school is organized jointly by University of Potsdam, Germany and University of Tartu, Estonia. It will be held
from 7<sup>th</sup> – 17<sup>th</sup> of August 2017 at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), Berlin, Germany.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The lectures and practical exercises will give basics to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hydrogen economy and hydrogen storage technologies<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Fundamentals of the gas storage<span style="color:black">, gas sorption techniques</span>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Basics of the neutron scattering and in particular in-situ neutron diffraction and neutron spectroscopy
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Characterizing sorption behavior of porous materials by ab-initio and crystal structure refinements<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Characterization of gas diffusion and mass transfer properties<span style="color:black"> by neutron spectroscopy
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Lectures: M. Russina (HZB), H. Kurig (University of Tartu, Estonia),
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">D. Többens (HZB), D. Wallacher (HZB) and M.C. Schlegel (BAM)<span style="color:black">, V. Grzimek (HZB)</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase">Target group<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The course is primarily aimed at early stage researchers
<span style="color:black">in Natural Sciences </span>with basics knowledge in Thermodynamics<span style="color:black">
</span>and Solid State Physics<span style="color:black">.</span> <span style="color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase">Registration
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If you are interested in attending the school, please contact school organizer at
<a href="mailto:margarita.russina@helmholtz–berlin.de">margarita.russina@helmholtz–berlin.de</a><span style="color:black"> or see at
<a href="https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/events/hydrogenschool/index_en.html">https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/events/hydrogenschool/index_en.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The register due date is June, 1<span style="color:black">6</span><sup>th</sup>, 2017.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Margarita Russina<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Group leader of neutron TOF spectroscopy <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Institute of soft matter and functional materials<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Hahn- Meitner Platz 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">14109 Berlin, Germany<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Phone: (+)49 308062 4 3159<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">E-mail: <span lang="DE"><a href="mailto:margarita.russina@helmholtz-berlin.de"><span lang="EN-US">margarita.russina@helmholtz-berlin.de</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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