After braving multiple PCR tests and a pile of additional administrative procedures, the LCT’s synchrotron team has been able to accomplish two weeks of work at the French synchrotron SOLEIL. In both cases, their work was conducted at the ROCK beamline.

In the first campaign, which took place in February, the team (from left to right: Parviz Yazdani, Srinath Nadadur Veeraraghavan, Hilde Poelman, Valentijn De Coster and Vladimir Galvita (not shown)) investigated the redox-active (H2/CO2) phases of Ni-based methane dry reforming catalysts using modulation-based quick X-ray absorption spectroscopy (QXAS).

In June (from left to right: Srinath Nadadur Veeraraghavan, Valentijn De Coster, Vladimir Galvita and Hilde Poelman), operando QXAS was applied to study the redox behavior of Pt-In and Pt-Sn propane dehydrogenation catalysts.