Best Poster Award for F. Iesari
At this year's XAFS16 conference, EUSpec member Fabio Iesari was awarded the conference's Best Poster Award.
Mr Iesari of the University of Camerino, Italy, who was recently awarded with a STSM to the University of Rennes, France, received this award at the XAFS16 conference in Karlsruhe, Germany in August 2015. The award-winning poster is titled
Local symmetry in liquid metals probed by x-ray absorption spectroscopy
Abstract: The nature of local point symmetry in simple monoatomic liquids has been a fundamental open question for almost 40 years of computational and experimental studies. We present original results of local ordering in different monoatomic liquids obtained by x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), exploiting its high sensitivity to short-range ordering. We used Reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) analysis for obtaining structural models compatible with XAS experimental data (and diffraction techniques for long-range ordering). Pair, bond-angle distributions and suitable indicators for point symmetry are calculated for both undercooled and liquid metals.
