«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.
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.
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.
But as one of
the beamline scientists put it, this is a truce not a treaty.
Not exact matches
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.
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).
Co-author Kunz is the principal
scientist at ALS
beamline 12.3.2.
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.
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.
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.»
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.
At the X-ray powder diffraction
beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source II,
scientists devised a way to avoid directly handling radioactive samples.
Each year, about 9000
scientists from around the world come to the ESRF to conduct experiments at the
beamlines.
Brookhaven
scientists discuss some of the first
beamlines to host users at NSLS - II: Eric Dooryhee at the X-ray Powder Diffraction (XPD)
beamline, Stuart Wilkins at the Coherent Soft X-ray (CSX)
beamline, Lisa Miller at the Submicron Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy (SRX)
beamline, and Yong Chu at the Hard X-ray Nanoprobe (HXN)
beamline.
Each year, the demand to use these X-ray beams increases and near to 9000
scientists from around the world come to Grenoble, to «
beamlines», each equipped with state - of - the - art instrumentation, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
As a complement to laboratory techniques such as gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry, infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, visible and electron microscopy carried out at the Centre of Research and Restoration of French Museums, Paris, the
scientists used the ultra bright X-rays on the ESRF's ID21
beamline to analyse tiny fragments taken from different sculptures.
On
beamline ID15,
scientists can use imaging, to see how cracks grow, and diffraction, which tells them about the local stresses that the cracks grow under.
«It allows you to see all of this interplay in chemistry,» said Michael Martin, a senior staff
scientist in charge of infrared
beamlines at the ALS.
The international team of
scientists, led by Dr Vincent Fernandez of the ESRF's ID19
beamline, applied high performance synchrotron X-ray scanning techniques such as X-ray synchrotron tomography to study the embryos inside the tiny eggs.
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scientists sent crystallized AMPK samples to the ESRF's ID30 - A
beamline.
Because of the complexity of the project, they needed a powerful
beamline, state - of - the - art detector and a skillful
scientist in - house to carry out the experiment.
Image: At the GeoSoilEnviroCARS
beamline at the Advanced Photon Source,
scientists mapped slices of 24 brittle starfish skeletons in 3 dimensions using X-ray tomography to find out how much volume the eroded skeletons had lost, and to reconstruct their structures.