During his PhD studies, Magnus Nørgaard Kløve employed time-resolved X-ray scattering to investigate structural changes at the atomic level during the solvothermal synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials, with a particular focus on Group IV oxides. A detailed understanding of the parameters governing specific characteristics of the final product serves as an enabler for the tailored, or rational, synthesis of inorganic materials – insights which are difficult to obtain retrospectively but arise naturally from time-resolved X-ray scattering experiments. Magnus Nørgaard Kløve utilized this type of experiment to tailor synthetic conditions and thereby be able to isolate metastable products of the Group IV oxides.

The PhD study was completed at Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Aarhus University.

This summary was prepared by the PhD student.

Time: Thursday 23 January 2025 at 13.15.
Place: Building 1514, room 213, Auditorium I, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, 8000 Aarhus C.
Title of PhD thesis: Time-resolved insights into nanoparticle formation through the eyes of X-rays.
Contact information: Magnus Nørgaard Kløve, e-mail: magnus.kloeve@chem.au.dk, tel.: +45 31517982.
Members of the assessment committee:
Professor Mari-Ann Einarsrud, NTNU, University of Trondheim, Norway.
Professor David Keen, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK.
Associate Professor Martin Bremholm (chair), Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Main supervisor:
Professor Bo Brummerstedt Iversen, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Language: The PhD dissertation will be defended in English.

The defence is public.
The PhD thesis is available for reading at the Graduate School of Natural Sciences/GSNS, Ny Munkegade 120, building 1521, 8000 Aarhus C.