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Today I have recieved a quite surprising email alert from Applied Surface Science. In this issue the proceedings of the “Third Japan-US Workshop on Combinatorial Material Science and Technology” are collected. I have browsed the titles as usual. The headline of the very last article has been as follows:
“Blog-based research notebook: Personal informatics workbench for high-throughput experimentation”

I did not expect this being published in a journal dealing with Surface Science, but as ChemPort.net runs with a weblog software, named WordPress, and as I am one of the editors of scienceport.org and a founder of WordPress.de, I was really pleased to read this headline and curious about its content.

Abstract

[ In this age of information technology, many researchers are still conservative in keeping a log of their activities in paper-based notebooks. This style of log-keeping brings about the situation that our experimental data and their descriptions are recorded separately into hard disks and papers, respectively. Such a data separation is likely to be a serious rate-limiting factor in high-throughput experimentation from the view point of getting feedback on each researcher’s work from what he has done. We propose to utilize a blog (Weblog) as an electronic research notebook and discuss technical requirements for maintaining it, on the basis of the blogging experience for 4 years by one of the authors…]

Authors: Shin-ichi Todoroki, Tomoya Konishi and Satoru Inoue.

I have read the article and I mainly agree with the authors, but in my opinion one should not forget the communication skills weblogs could serve to the various scientific communities if they represent both: logbook for scientists sharing and saving their descriptions of measurements and issues for public in order to discuss, share and save knowledge.

BTW: If you like to share your knowledge, I recommend to visit wikipedia.org.

lightsources.org is the result of a collaboration among communicators from light-source facilities around the world. The site serves as a clearing house for light-source-related news, educational material, and user-related information and is updated daily. It provides links to current light-source news from the world’s press, high-resolution photos and graphics from light-source facilities around the world, links to education and outreach programs, information about science policy and funding, a conference calendar, and important facility-related information for light-source users.

Für hochauflösende Rastertunnelmikroskopie (RTM), ist es wichtig die Einkristalloberflächen vor der Messung so zu präparieren, dass die Oberflächen glatt sind und möglichst grosse Terassen entstehen.
L.A. Kibler von Abteilung Elektrochemie der Universität Ulm hat dazu bereits 2003 eine 56 seitige Abhandlung geschrieben, die frei zum Download angeboten wird.
Ist sicher eine gute Lektüre, für alle, die in die Rastertunnelmikroskopie von Einkristalloberflächen einsteigen wollen oder es bereits sind.

Living Reviews is a unique editorial concept for the publication of high-quality scientific content.

‘Living’ review articles are

1. as the name suggests, review articles, providing insightful surveys on research progress in the fields they cover and guiding readers to the most important literature in the field,
2. solicited from experts in the field by an international Editorial Board,
3. subject to peer-review,
4. open access publications
5. and, most important, ‘living’ which means that the articles are regularly being updated by their authors to incorporate the latest developments in the field.

Verwaltet wird das ganze von der Max Planck Gesellschaft. Es gibt derzeit zwei Journale:
Living Reviews in Solar Physics und Living Reviews in Relativity.

[gefunden auf SciencePORT.org]

Seit heute gibt es auf WordPress.de eine neue Version der Blogmap. Aus der alten Blogmap (ich berichtete) ist ein Verzeichnis mit wahnsinns Features entstanden.
Mehr dazu im WordPress.de Blog.

Auf jeden Fall habe ich meine Koordinaten (Villigen/CH) einmal überprüft und man kann tatsächlich soweit reinzoomem, dass das PSI und die Suisse Light Source (SLS) zu erkennen sind.
Ich habe mal einen Screenshot der Nahaufnahme gemacht:

Coole Sache, das!

1. QUASES-XS-REELS™
This software has been developed for quantitative determination of inelastic electron scattering cross sections by analysis of REELS. It has been developped by S. Tougaard and can be ordered at quases.com. The Price is 495 EUR or 295 EUR for universities for a single-user license including Users Manual and Tutorial examples.

2. CONFIT
This software has been developed by the Group of Electrical and Magnetic Properties at the Institute of Physics of Materials Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The Price is $999 and a free download package is available here.

3. XPS MultiQuant
XPS MultiQuant is a quantitative evaluation program for X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, serving as a practical and universal tool for the surface analyst. It applies the ‘classic’ methods of the quantitative calculations using the integrated intensity of the measured XPS lines. The software has been developped by M. Mohai at the Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The software is free of charge and can be downloaded here.

4. Imaging XPS
This software has been presented by J. Walton from the School of Materials of the University in Manchester. It has been developed in collaboration with Neil Fairley from casaXPS and might be based on Image Processing. However, I did not succeed in finding an appropriate link…

5. Unifit
Unifit is developed by R. Hesse from the University of Leipzig. One can download the Demo-Software for free (saving and printing are disabled). I did not find the price of the complete software package.

6. SESSA
SESSA stands for Simulation of Electron Spectra for Surface Analysis and has been developed at the Institut für Allgemeine Physik of the TU Wien in collaboration with NIST. I have found some more Info here and will ask one of the developers if it is allowed to publish his email address for further information.

7. AFM Images
The software allows to process AFM images and has been developed by C. Müllner and Coworkers at the Institut für Chemische Technologien und Analytik at the TU Wien. Further online Info is not available.

8. AnalSpec
Software for aiding inorganic SIMS spectra interpretation developed by B. Guzman de la Mata from the University of Warwick. Further online Info is not available.