Hello all:

Our group, Synchrotron Catalysis Consortium, or SCC, at the NSLS has started a mailing list (SCC-Forum) to provide our users with an opportunity to discuss problems that are specific to nanocatalysis science. Most of our users come to SCC to perform in situ XAFS in catalysis  reactors, collect time-resolved data, analyze low dimensional systems (e.g., nanoparticles, monolayers, nanorods, and their real time reactivity, as just a few examples) and thus may benefit from a specialized forum where these issues are addressed in depth.

Postings by our list members would facilitate discussions of experimental setups needed to study a specific catalysis problem, experimental regimes, typical experimental pitfalls in these type of measurements and how to avoid them, data modeling tricks and know-how, etc. The purpose of the list is to help each other and the SCC group here at the NSLS by sharing your experience and stimulate further development of catalysis science done by XAFS and other synchrotron techniques.

For those who are not familiar with SCC, a good starting point describing our activities is: http://www.yu.edu/scc.

To subscribe to the SCC mailing list, and start receiving and sending postings, use   as the entry point the main SCC web page: http://www.yu.edu/scc and click at the SCC Discussion Forum link in the bottom right. Note that you may choose to receive daily digests of the postings; regardless of your choice, you can access the message archives by logging in to the list using the main entry point above. The interface is the same as IFEFFIT; in fact, Matt kindly helped me to configure it to have the same settings as IFEFFIT, to make it easier for those who wants to subscribe to the both lists.

Perhaps, such “specialized” lists could be set up in the future by other groups using XAFS, say, life sciences and environmental sciences, who will continue using IFEFFIT  as a fantastic resource for general XAFS analysis advice but have their own list themes, as does SCC-Forum. Regardless of whether it may or may not be a good idea in general, I hope the SCC-Forum list will be a useful resource for you. Any comments, please let me know.

Anatoly

Anatoly Frenkel, Professor

Department of Physics, Yeshiva University

245 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10016

http://www.yu.edu/faculty/afrenkel

Spokesperson, Synchrotron Catalysis Consortium

http://www.yu.edu/scc

Office: (212) 340-7827, Lab: (631) 344-3013, Fax: (212) 340-7868

Email: anatoly.frenkel@yu.edu