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Daniel Grolimund is affiliated with the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to research within materials science and engineering disciplines. Their work predominantly spans the study of materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and mechanical engineering, with a specific focus on subfields such as mechanics of materials and civil and structural engineering.

Their research portfolio includes investigations into radioactive element chemistry and processing, nuclear materials and properties, and nuclear materials and radiation effects. Additional topics addressed in their work are hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, additive manufacturing materials and processes, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, and high entropy alloys studies.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Daniel Grolimund are:

  • Solidification modes during additive manufacturing of steel revealed by high-speed X-ray diffraction, 2023, Acta Materialia
  • Oxygen electrode degradation in solid oxide cells operating in electrolysis and fuel cell modes: LSCF destabilization and interdiffusion at the electrode/electrolyte interface, 2021, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • Direct observation of crack formation mechanisms with operando Laser Powder Bed Fusion X-ray imaging, 2022, Additive Manufacturing
  • A miniaturized selective laser melting device for operando X-ray diffraction studies, 2020, Additive Manufacturing
  • Micro-X-ray diffraction and chemical mapping of aged interfaces between cement pastes and Opalinus Clay, 2020, Applied Geochemistry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Daniel Grolimund include Darío Ferreira Sánchez, Ashish Rajyaguru, Neil C. Hyatt, Marie-Catherine Sforna, and Catherine Demoulin.

Their research has appeared in venues such as Environmental Science & Technology, Additive Manufacturing, arXiv (Cornell University), Cement and Concrete Research, and Nature Communications, reflecting a diverse publication record across different materials and engineering journals.

Best Publications

  • Highly multiplexed imaging of tumor tissues with subcellular resolution by mass cytometry

    Charlotte Giesen;Hao A O Wang;Denis Schapiro;Nevena Zivanovic

  • Mobile Subsurface Colloids and Their Role in Contaminant Transport

    Ruben Kretzschmar;Michal Borkovec;Daniel Grolimund;Menachem Elimelech

  • Femtosecond XANES Study of the Light-Induced Spin Crossover Dynamics in an Iron(II) Complex

    Ch. Bressler;C. Milne;V.-T. Pham;A. ElNahhas

  • Iodide accumulation provides kelp with an inorganic antioxidant impacting atmospheric chemistry.

    Frithjof C. Küpper;Lucy J. Carpenter;Gordon B. McFiggans;Carl J. Palmer

  • Colloid-Facilitated Transport of Strongly Sorbing Contaminants in Natural Porous Media: A Laboratory Column Study

    Daniel Grolimund;Michal Borkovec;Kurt Barmettler;Hans Sticher

  • Experimental determination of colloid deposition rates and collision efficiencies in natural porous media

    Ruben Kretzschmar;Kurt Barmettler;Daniel Grolimund;Yao-de Yan

  • Transport of in Situ Mobilized Colloidal Particles in Packed Soil Columns

    Daniel Grolimund;Menachem Elimelech;Michal Borkovec;Kurt Barmettler

  • Structural determination of a short-lived excited iron(II) complex by picosecond x-ray absorption spectroscopy.

    Wojciech Gawelda;Wojciech Gawelda;Van-Thai Pham;Maurizio Benfatto;Yuri Zaushitsyn

  • Spatiotemporal Stability of a Femtosecond Hard-X-Ray Undulator Source Studied by Control of Coherent Optical Phonons

    P Beaud;S L Johnson;A Streun;R Abela

  • Observing photochemical transients by ultrafast x-ray absorption spectroscopy.

    Melanie Saes;Melanie Saes;Christian Bressler;Rafael Abela;Daniel Grolimund

  • Fast Chemical Imaging at High Spatial Resolution by Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

    Hao A. O. Wang;Hao A. O. Wang;Daniel Grolimund;Charlotte Giesen;Camelia N. Borca

  • Nanoscale Depth-Resolved Coherent Femtosecond Motion in Laser-Excited Bismuth

    S. L. Johnson;P. Beaud;C. J. Milne;F. S. Krasniqi

  • Aggregation and deposition kinetics of mobile colloidal particles in natural porous media

    Daniel Grolimund;Menachem Elimelech;Michal Borkovec

  • Colloid-Facilitated Transport of Strongly Sorbing Contaminants in Natural Porous Media: Mathematical Modeling and Laboratory Column Experiments

    Daniel Grolimund;Michal Borkovec

  • Characterization of Nb-Containing MnOx−CeO2 Catalyst for Low-Temperature Selective Catalytic Reduction of NO with NH3

    Maria Casapu;Oliver Kröcher;Max Mehring;Maarten Nachtegaal

  • Smaller is stronger: The effect of strain hardening

    R. Maaß;S. Van Petegem;Duancheng Ma;Julien Zimmermann

  • A high-repetition rate scheme for synchrotron-based picosecond laser pump/x-ray probe experiments on chemical and biological systems in solution

    Frederico A. Lima;Christopher J. Milne;Dimali C.V. Amarasinghe;Dimali C.V. Amarasinghe;Mercedes Hannelore Rittmann-Frank

  • In situ investigation of phase transformations in Ti-6Al-4V under additive manufacturing conditions combining laser melting and high-speed micro-X-ray diffraction

    C. Kenel;C. Kenel;D. Grolimund;X. Li;E. Panepucci

  • Picosecond time-resolved X-ray emission spectroscopy: Ultrafast spin-state determination in an iron complex

    György Vankó;Pieter Glatzel;Van-Thai Pham;Rafael Abela

  • Time-resolved Laue diffraction of deforming micropillars.

    Robert Maaß;Steven Van Petegem;Helena Van Swygenhoven;Peter M. Derlet

Frequent Co-Authors

Majed Chergui
Majed Chergui École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Michal Borkovec
Michal Borkovec University of Geneva
Gordon E. Brown
Gordon E. Brown Stanford University
Maarten Nachtegaal
Maarten Nachtegaal Paul Scherrer Institute
Andreas Menzel
Andreas Menzel TU Dortmund University
Christian David
Christian David Paul Scherrer Institute
Christian Leinenbach
Christian Leinenbach Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
H. Van Swygenhoven
H. Van Swygenhoven Paul Scherrer Institute

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