This ARC Network will bring together world experts involved in the disparate areas of absolute XAFS, accurate electron density mapping techniques, X-ray, neutron and electron diffraction, atomic, molecular, cluster and solid-state theory, powder diffraction and electron scattering. New collaborative interactions will be nurtured and the attention of the constituent nodes directed to the solution of problems in emerging technologies in biosciences and the development of advanced materials. This initiative will be characterised by active younger researchers, with contributed expertise from more senior established researchers.
Contact
The Convenor of the ARC Seed-Funded XENQ Network is A/Prof Chris Chantler (University of Melbourne). Please contact us using this electronic form.
This report on the XENQ Network has received the support of a Seed-Funding Grant from ARC under the Special Research Initiatives Program
Aims of the Network
- To foster interactions between theoreticians and experimentalists in developing new high precision methods of electronic structure determination and characterization
- To explore the application of fundamental studies in physics and chemistry to emerging technologies in biosciences and the development of advanced materials.
- To promote the new research possibilities made possible through fundamental advances in high precision spectroscopy by conducting workshops, international conferences and training programmes
- To develop common resources and specifically make available databases of wide relevance and utility to the scientific and applied communities
- Theoretical physicists and chemists working on electronic structure and dynamics
- Experimentalists developing new techniques in X-ray, electron and neutron diffraction
- Synthetical and analytical chemists, biochemists, and material scientists developing advanced materials and pharmaceuticals
- Groups developing instrumentation and techniques of data analysis