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Antonia Neels
Research interests

My interests are focused on new materials, their fascinating structures leading to new physical and chemical properties. My passion goes to the development and application of X-ray based analytical methods in the emerging fields of chemistry, biology, physics and microtechnology. Novel models for X-ray tools using diffraction and scattering in combination with X-ray imaging techniques have an enormous potential in application areas such as materials and life sciences. In recent years, my research moved from micrometer-sized towards nano-systems, coated materials and interfaces regarding especially their dynamics in non-ambient environments. The overriding goal is to develop a better understanding of mechanisms on materials surfaces and interfaces with respect to dynamical processes.

Since 2018, I’m a Titular Professor at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and also active in national and international crystallographic associations and commissions.

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Selected Research Topics:

 

 

       
      1 ) Poliymers: analysis of order and
           disorder
      2) Nanoparticles in motion:
          interactions with proteins

      Metallic glasses: new materials for
      Space and Medtech


 

      Semiconductor materials and
      devices: strain and defects


 

      Blood clots: X-ray multimodalities:
      morphology and phase composition


 
Teaching
  • Lecturer of the master course “XRD Basic Principles & Applications” (each spring semester, Master of Science in chemistry) University of Fribourg: Fribourg, CH.
  • CCMX “Advanced X-ray Diffraction Methods for Coatings”
Memberships in national and international organizations
Publications

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