This book collects several contributions presented at the 2019 meeting of the Italian Synchrotron Radiation Society (SILS), held in Camerino, Italy, from 9 to 11 September 2019.

Topics included are recent developments in synchrotron radiation facilities and instrumentation, novel methods for data analysis, applications in the fields of materials physics and chemistry, Earth and environmental science, coherence in x-ray experiments. The book is intended for advanced students and researchers interested in synchrotron-based techniques and their application in diverse fields.

Autorentext
Andrea Di Cicco is presently full professor at the University of Camerino, Italy. He is co-author of an advanced data-analysis method (GnXAS) for x-ray absorption spectroscopy based on multiple-scattering calculations, and was involved in the development of the XAFS and TIMEX beamlines at the Elettra synchrotron and Fermi free electron laser facilities in Italy. His scientific activity spans several decades and was mainly devoted to structural studies of disordered and ill-ordered systems under non-standard thermodynamic conditions.

Gabriele Giuli is presently associate professor at the University of Camerino. His research interests include the characterization of dopants local structural/chemical environment (mostly transition elements and REE) in crystalline and glassy materials of interest in Earth Sciences and Material Science by combining x-ray absorption spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction techniques.

Angela Trapananti is presently a researcher atthe Physics Division, School of Science and Technology of the University of Camerino, Italy. After a Ph.D. thesis in experimental condensed matter physics, she worked as post-doctoral fellow and then researcher of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and different x-ray absorption spectroscopy beamlines of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. Her research interests include the structure of liquids and glasses, even at extreme conditions and the structural characterization of materials for energy storage applications, mainly by XAS. She was co-Chair of the 2019 SILS meeting.

Inhalt
Coherence: Elementary Introduction to a Quantum Revolution in X-ray Science.- Some odd consequences of self-coherence in the photo-diraction and photo-absorption processes.- DANE-Light: the INFN-LNF synchrotron radiation facility.- Synchrotron Radiation studies of relevance to Accelerator R&D.- The LISA CRG beamline at ESRF.- Estimating a set of pure XANES spectra from multicomponent chemical mixtures using a transformation matrix-based approach.- Revisiting the probing depths of soft x-ray absorption techniques by Constant Initial State photoemission experiments.- Multi-edge and multiple scattering EXAFS analysis of metal hexacyanoferrates: application in battery materials.- High pressure behavior of the hybrid material AlPO4- 5+azobenzene: an in-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction study.- Zn distribution and chemical speciation in marine biominerals: an example on bivalve and foraminifera shells from polluted sites.- Insights into the structure of reaction intermediates throughcoupled X-ray Absorption/UV-Vis spectroscopy.- Structural prole of a MgO/Co/MgO trilayer using Soft X-ray Resonant Magnetic Reectivity.- Metal coordination core in Copper(II) complexes investigated by XAFS.- Structural Fluctuations at nanoscale in complex functional materials.- Structural properties of porous silicon nanowires: a combined characterization by advanced spectroscopic techniques.- The use of synchrotron-based X-ray microtomography for the pore network quantitative and computational fluid dynamics experiments on porous carbonate rocks.- V K-edge XANES Full Multiple Scattering study of V-bearing Phosphate glasses.