Grain boundary wetting refers to the phenomenon that a liquid metal penetrates along the grain boundaries within polycrystalline solid metals. Replacement of the original grain boundary with the liquid layer generally causes intergranular brittle fra… Read more

We are happy to announce that Anders Filsøe Pedersen has joined the Xnovo team as our new Scientist. Anders comes from a position as Post Doc in the NEXMAP (Neutrons and X-rays for Materials Physics) section at DTU Physics. He brings along a broad kn… Read more

The prize for this year’s best Danscatt PhD thesis was awarded to Pablo Alcón Hernández at the Danscatt Annual meeting 2018 hosted by RUC. The committee regarded his science on new protein from the CRISPR-Cas family to be at a high international leve… Read more

By using a combination of LabDCT, attenuation-based tomography and electron microscopy, a group of researchers headed by assistant professor Ashwin Shahani from University of Michigan have investigated the correlation between grain boundaries and imp… Read more

It’s a pleasure to welcome Christian Holzner to the Xnovo team as our Director of Product and Business Development. Christian comes from a position as Innovation Manager from the California Bay Area based Carl Zeiss X-ray Microscopy (formerly Xradia… Read more

We are happy to announce that Steven Clauwaert has joined the Xnovo team as our Software Manager. Steven’s principal function is day-to-day management of software related issues within development, navigation, design, and processes. He brings along b… Read more

The 3rd DanMAX Users Meeting was held at MAX IV in Lund on 8-9 January 2018. X-ray scientists from Danish universities and industry met to present and discuss the science they want to do once the beamline is operational. Mie Birkbak represented Xnovo… Read more

It’s a pleasure to welcome Mie Birkbak to the Xnovo team. Mie holds a PhD in Nanoscience from Aarhus University and has expertise in combining diffraction and imaging techniques to tackle scientific questions within the field of materials science. Sh… Read more

We are happy to announce that Andreas Pedersen has joined the Xnovo team as a Software Developer. Andreas has a scientific background within method development, simulations, and analysis of solid materials with atomistic resolution, and he has more t… Read more

For the last two years, the Xnovo GrainMapper3D software has provided ZEISS’ Xradia 520 Versa with the possibility to study grain orientation information and combine the data with microstructural features such as cracks, porosity, and inclusions. We… Read more