BAG proposal form

UK Catalysis Hub XAS BAG ex situ proposal
Please fill in the proposal title*
Group PI:*
Please provide the name of the PI for the Research Group. The PI must be a member of academic staff at an appropriate institution.
Group PI email address:*
example@example.com
Name of Main Proposer*
Please provide details of the main proposer. The proposer can be a member of academic staff, a graduate student, post doctoral researcher or technical researcher affiliated to the Research Group.
Email address of the Main Proposer*
example@example.com
Names of other investigators.
Please provide the names of any other investigators.
Who will be attending the experiment.
Please indicate who will be attending the experiment.
Lay Summary*

Describe your research project for a general audience0/1000
Research hypothesis*

Please outline your experiment. What is your research hypothesis and why is this research important for catalysis. Please justify why XAFS is essential to this research compared to other characterisation methods. How many samples and how many absorption edges will you study for each sample. Will you be using EXAFS to study your samples and what do you expect to see from the EXAFS measurements. 0/2000
Sample characteristics
Please outline the results of any characterisation already undertaken. There is an optional sheet at the end of the proposal form so figures can be appended.
What is the current XAFS resource in your group
Have you used the BAG before?

YesNo
Publication strategy: please provide an approximate timescale for publication

0/500
Please list up to three key publications from the past two years that have involved the use of XAFS (highlight those resulting from a BAG allocation with an asterisk)

Samples: please include all the intended samples and absorption edges in this table, in order of priority. Please list the composition of the same in weight %. Only samples included in this table will be use. Use one line per sample/edge.*

	Sample description	Absorption edge	Sample composition	Sample form
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Reference materials: please list any reference materials you wish to run as part of your experiment.

	Sample description	Absorption edge	Sample composition	Sample form
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Do you have any specific sample requirements? For example is your sample air-sensitive?*

YesNo

Do you have any additional (up to three), optional figures you would like to add to figures to support your proposal?*

YesNo
Optional figure 1: please insert your supplementary figure
Please describe this figure.
Optional figure 2: please insert your supplementary figure
Please describe this figure.
Optional figure 3: please insert your supplementary figure
Please describe this figure.

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