Sentences with phrase «esrf beamlines»

It would take advantage of beamlines at OMEGA - EP, one of the country's most powerful lasers.

Accelerator Scientist Yan Wang recorded and provided insight into machine performance, and Yves Roblin was the Accelerator Physics Experimental Liaison for the Hall A beamline.

In addition to fabricating the hybrid membrane at the Molecular Foundry, the scientists analyzed the material at beamline 12.2.2 of the Advanced Light Source.

The Australian Synchrotron's X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy beamline clearly showed researchers how zinc migrates to the center of the grain during this optimal parboiling approach, making the milled white rice more nutritious.

But he noted that «five protein crystallography beamlines have been spared of major damages».

«Recent technological advances at our beamline allowed us to create the conditions to simulate these intense temperatures and pressures and probe the changes in chemistry and structure of the sample in situ,» she said.

At these «beamlines» scientists harvest X-rays produced by the electrons as they pass through carefully controlled magnetic fields (see «Europe's shining new light», New Scientist, 14 March 1992).

Researchers will conduct their first studies using the facility's seven available beamlines, but engineers plan to add 25 additional beamlines over the next 5 years.

Previously we have been doing experiments at our beamline using other much heavier, and therefore easily detectable, noble gases such as xenon and krypton.

A chance encounter at that meeting with Andrey Yakovenko, a beamline scientist at the Advanced Photon Source, resulted in a collaborative project to capture neon — the 95th element to be observed in the CSD.

When fully complete the facility will support more than 4000 users each year with up to 70 beamlines.

Kamel Fezzaa, a team member and beamline scientist with Argonne's X-Ray Science Division, concurs, adding, «Full - field imaging techniques will greatly benefit from the order of magnitude reduction in horizontal source size.

Recent synchrotron advances and the development of dynamic compression platforms have created the ability to investigate extreme states of matter on short timescales at X-ray beamlines using shock waves generated by impact systems.

Co-author Kunz is the principal scientist at ALS beamline 12.3.2.

Working at ALS beamline 12.3.2, a superconducting bending magnet X-ray micro-diffraction beamline, the research team studied a reproduction of Roman volcanic ash - lime mortar that had been previously subjected to fracture testing experiments at Cornell University.

Finally, microscopic studies at ALS beamline 12.3.2 identified the other minerals in the Roman samples.

At ALS beamlines 5.3.2.1 and 5.3.2.2, x-ray spectroscopy showed that the specific way the aluminum substitutes for silicon in the C - A-S-H may be the key to the cohesion and stability of the seawater concrete.

High - pressure x-ray diffraction experiments at ALS beamline 12.2.2 measured its mechanical properties and, for the first time, clarified the role of aluminum in its crystal lattice.

«We were deeply concerned about the development of the science and investment case [for new beamlines],» says Gallagher.

Integration of the results from the various beamlines revealed the minerals» potential applications for high - performance concretes, including the encapsulation of hazardous wastes.

A funding proposal for the new beamlines has been put together since the sacking of Lamb but contrary to usual practice, it has not been reviewed by SAC members.

But as one of the beamline scientists put it, this is a truce not a treaty.

According to Smith, SAC had been extremely concerned about starting to prepare the funding proposal by February, since a deadline of 8 December loomed to apply for US$ 37 million of Commonwealth Government funds for four new beamlines.

Two projects that have definitely been guaranteed funding are new beamlines for the Diamond synchrotron near Oxford and the new UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation (UKCMRI), due to open in London in 2015.

Using one of the world's most powerful soft X-ray microscopes — the Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscope (STXM) and X-ray Emission beamlines — at the Canadian Light Source in tandem with one of the world's highest resolution aberration - corrected transmission electron microscopes housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Banerjee and collaborators from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the UIC and Argonne National Laboratory were able to observe the unique electronic properties of their novel vanadium pentoxide and directly prove magnesium - ion intercalation into the material.

Brookhaven scientists are pictured at NSLS - II beamline 8 - ID, where they used ultra-bright x-ray light to «see» the chemical complexity of a new catalytic material.

«The high - intensity X-ray beamlines at the ESRF, equipped with state - of - the - art Dectris detectors, were crucial for getting high quality crystallographic data from the weakly diffracting and radiation sensitive crystals of the large polymerase complex,» says Cusack.

For this research, the team used the Center for Nanoscale Materials as well as beamline 12 - ID - C of the Advanced Photon Source, both DOE Office of Science User Facilities.

To analyze the chemical complexity of the material, the scientists used beamline 8 - ID at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS - II)-- also a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven Lab.

Professor McGeehan said: «The Diamond Light Source recently created one of the most advanced X-ray beamlines in the world and having access to this facility allowed us to see the 3D atomic structure of PETase in incredible detail.

The synchrotron has no guaranteed funding beyond June 2012, putting plans for more beamlines on hold.

Picture of ID23 - 1, one of the ESRF structural biology beamlines where the experiments were carried out.

The synchrotron, he says, is «doing brilliantly» in terms of generating scientific publications and maintaining high - quality beamlines.

Synchrotron - light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME), an $ 80 million synchrotron lab in Allan, Jordan, announced this week its first call for research that will be conducted on two beamlines expected to switch on this autumn.

For their experiment, the team used three structural biology beamlines at the ESRF, the European Synchrotron in Grenoble (France): ID29, ID23 - 1, and the fully automated» hands - off» beamline MASSIF - 1, as well as the Xaloc beamline at Alba, the Spanish synchrotron.

«The detail that the team were able to draw out from the results achieved on the I23 beamline at Diamond will be invaluable in looking to tailor the enzyme for use in large - scale industrial recycling processes.

Two beamlines will be ready this year — for x-rays and infrared light — and two more will be built by 2019.

The new entity, to be called the Middle East Biological Sciences Institute for Research, will make use of the synchrotron's beamlines.

«I wanted to use a submicron X-ray beam, so I asked colleague Kenneth Evans - Lutterodt to perform an experiment on the microdiffraction beamline at Brookhaven National Laboratory,» she added.

Unlike synchrotron light sources, which may have dozens of X-ray beamlines and many experiments going on simultaneously, the current version of LCLS has just one powerful beam, a billion times brighter than any available before, whose pulses arrive up to 120 times per second.

This large anisotropy leads to a remarkable magnetic moment, which has been determined with synchrotron - based measurements at the X-Treme beamline at the Swiss Light Source.

Nobumichi Tamura, an ALS staff scientist, said the X-ray beamline where the Roman concrete samples were studied can produce beams focused to about 1 micron, or 1 thousandth of an inch, «which is useful for identifying each mineral species and mapping their distribution.»

For example, STAR and PHENIX have both installed novel detector technologies to help analyze particles that emerge from RHIC collisions in the forward direction — close to and along the direction of the beamline.

Small - angle neutron scattering data obtained on beamline D11 at the ILL was crucially used to prove the internal structure of these clusters.

«Our beamline provides an environment to investigate samples at extreme pressures and temperatures.

ORNL's Steven Dajnowicz (left) and Andrey Kovalevsky prepared a sample to begin neutron structural analysis of a vitamin B6 - dependent protein using the IMAGINE beamline at ORNL's High Flux Isotope Reactor.

The researchers exposed delicate protein crystals to neutrons using the IMAGINE beamline at ORNL's High Flux Isotope Reactor and the LADI - III beamline at the Institut Laue - Langevin in Grenoble, France.

«This study highlights how neutrons are an unrivaled probe for identifying the location of hydrogen atoms in biological systems, providing us with an unprecedented level of structural detail for this important enzyme,» LADI - III beamline scientist Matthew Blakeley said.

The young research scientist is already carrying out further experiments at the synchrotron facility's new «Petra III» beamline, which according to DESY is the world's biggest and most brilliant storage ring x-ray source.

Using the microfocus beamline at the SPring - 8 synchrotron facility, the group obtained crystallographic images of the two receptors at resolutions of just 2.9 and 2.4 angstroms, and came up with a surprising finding.