News from Xnovo

It is a pleasure to welcome Håkon Wiik Ånes to the Xnovo team as our new scientist. Håkon Wiik Ånes did his PhD studies in the department of materials science and engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. His the… Read more

We welcome Olivia Barbee to the Xnovo team as our new Scientist. Olivia holds a PhD in geology from Michigan Tech and specializes in mineralogy and petrology. Her research has focused on textural-chemical studies of magmatic minerals to decipher reco… Read more

We welcome Stefan Bruns to the Xnovo team as our new scientist. Stefan holds a PhD in Chemistry from the Philipps University of Marburg. His research focuses on the three-dimensional characterization of porous media covering applications in analytica… Read more

Deformation in polycrystals occur by dislocation slip on so-called slip systems, and grain boundaries (GBs) play a critical role in this process. Slip transfer across a GB is associated with good geometrical alignment between the incoming and outgoin… Read more

We welcome Simone Ferstl in the role of Product Manager and Scientist to the Xnovo team. Simone holds a PhD in Physics from the Technical University of Munich. Her work revolved around the advancement of an in-house developed 3D X-ray microscope whic… Read more

The prize for this year’s best Danscatt PhD thesis was awarded to Michael Korning Sørenser for his thesis, Morphology of organic solar cell materials – studied with X-ray scattering techniques, conducted at the Department of Energy, Technical Univers… Read more

It is a pleasure to welcome Asbjørn Rasmussen to the Xnovo team as our new scientist. Asbjørn holds a PhD in computational quantum physics from the Technical University of Denmark where he investigated novel ways to calculate electronic correlation e… Read more

We are proud to announce the release of GrainMapper3D version 3.2, with advanced memory handling to accommodate larger data sets. GrainMapper3D version 3.2 gives access to even larger and more representative 3D maps of grain orientations and morpholo… Read more

The acquisition of high-fidelity 3D grain maps is essential for advancing our understanding of the micromechanical behavior of polycrystalline materials. Grain orientations, grain boundary misorientations, and grain shapes play a significant role in… Read more

We welcome Ravi Raj Purohit PURUSHOTTAM RAJ PUROHIT in the role of Scientist to the Xnovo team. Ravi holds a PhD in Physics and mechanics of Materials and has applied his expertise in the fields of materials characterization with X-ray diffraction/sc… Read more