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Preface
Springer 2013) meant for final-year bachelor students and available also as e-book,
leading to numerous downloads from all over the world.
One of the main purposes of this new tutorial book is to transfer the central knowledge of Mössbauer spectroscopy not only to the next generations, but also to scientists
working in other research fields. Accordingly, we present an overview of new methodologies developed at different synchrotron facilities, we shed light on some advanced
materials such as batteries and other energy materials, we focus on a wide variety of
applications of Mössbauer spectroscopy in physics, chemistry, biology, geoscience,
and we discuss the emergence of imaging techniques in Mössbauer spectroscopy,
which we expect to attract new users in the community.
The book begins in its first three chapters with new efforts in modern Mössbauer
spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation. The authors of these chapters and their
research groups lead nuclear resonant scattering experiments and related technique
development at synchrotron accelerator facilities like the European Synchrotron
Radiation Facility (ESRF), the Super Photon Ring-8 Gev (SPring-8) and the
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY). In Chaps. 4 and 5, the book demonstrates the applications of such cutting-edge techniques to chemistry–biology and
geoscience, respectively. In Chaps. 6 and 7, it further describes the applications
of Mössbauer spectroscopy to new functional materials, i.e., metal complexes and
Li- and Na-ion batteries, respectively. The last two chapters, Chaps. 8 and 9, are
devoted to two important measuring techniques: Mössbauer spectroscopy under
external magnetic fields in Chap. 8 and microscopic Mössbauer techniques on diffusion in solids in Chap. 9. Those techniques are expected to play an essential role in
investigating and characterizing magnetic structures and microstructures in materials.
This second tutorial book project originated at the occasion of the 9th TOYOTA
RIKEN International Workshop on New Developments and Prospects for the Future
of Mössbauer Spectroscopy (IWMS2018) at Toyota Commemorative Museum of
Industry and Technology in Nagoya city from November 15 to 17, 2018. The workshop was organized by Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute (TOYOTA
RIKEN) and co-organized by Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology and
Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science, Kyoto University. We would
like to thank Dr. Akiyuki Tokuno, Springer, for his intensive supports.
Editors
Fukuroi, Japan
Yutaka Yoshida
Guido Langouche
Preface
Springer 2013) meant for final-year bachelor students and available also as e-book,
leading to numerous downloads from all over the world.
One of the main purposes of this new tutorial book is to transfer the central knowledge of Mössbauer spectroscopy not only to the next generations, but also to scientists
working in other research fields. Accordingly, we present an overview of new methodologies developed at different synchrotron facilities, we shed light on some advanced
materials such as batteries and other energy materials, we focus on a wide variety of
applications of Mössbauer spectroscopy in physics, chemistry, biology, geoscience,
and we discuss the emergence of imaging techniques in Mössbauer spectroscopy,
which we expect to attract new users in the community.
The book begins in its first three chapters with new efforts in modern Mössbauer
spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation. The authors of these chapters and their
research groups lead nuclear resonant scattering experiments and related technique
development at synchrotron accelerator facilities like the European Synchrotron
Radiation Facility (ESRF), the Super Photon Ring-8 Gev (SPring-8) and the
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY). In Chaps. 4 and 5, the book demonstrates the applications of such cutting-edge techniques to chemistry–biology and
geoscience, respectively. In Chaps. 6 and 7, it further describes the applications
of Mössbauer spectroscopy to new functional materials, i.e., metal complexes and
Li- and Na-ion batteries, respectively. The last two chapters, Chaps. 8 and 9, are
devoted to two important measuring techniques: Mössbauer spectroscopy under
external magnetic fields in Chap. 8 and microscopic Mössbauer techniques on diffusion in solids in Chap. 9. Those techniques are expected to play an essential role in
investigating and characterizing magnetic structures and microstructures in materials.
This second tutorial book project originated at the occasion of the 9th TOYOTA
RIKEN International Workshop on New Developments and Prospects for the Future
of Mössbauer Spectroscopy (IWMS2018) at Toyota Commemorative Museum of
Industry and Technology in Nagoya city from November 15 to 17, 2018. The workshop was organized by Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute (TOYOTA
RIKEN) and co-organized by Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology and
Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science, Kyoto University. We would
like to thank Dr. Akiyuki Tokuno, Springer, for his intensive supports.
Editors
Fukuroi, Japan
Yutaka Yoshida
Guido Langouche