Sentences with phrase «of beamlines»

For for an increasing number of beamlines we offer specialized sample environment equipment in combination with direct user service.

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

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

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.

«The X-ray device we have on campus has only a fraction of the power of the beamline, and we would not be able to complete this complex mapping project without such a high - powered X-ray device.»

But because of his beamline experience, he was pulled into work focused on high - throughput crystallography, and, naturally, more automation.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.»

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

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.

«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.

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.

The suspended droplets were then cooled by several hundreds of Kelvin during which time they were illuminated with particularly intense x-rays from the «Doris III» synchrotron beamline at DESY.

(The University of Missouri is a founding member of the Molecular Biology Consortium (MBC), which operates the beamline in California.)

The beamline device is one of only five in the world and is the size of a football field.

It also includes one day of tutorials and a full day of hands - on practical sessions on 6 different beamlines.

To maintain this leadership, the ESRF launched an extensive modernisation programme in 2009 that saw the creation of 19 new beamlines and many developments in instrumentation.

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.

The PSCM facilitates a deeper exploitation of state - of - the - art neutron instruments and synchrotron beamlines in combination with on - site specialised sample preparation and characterisation facilities.

Further studies will also employ another beamline, NOMAD, to characterize the exact structure of both the surface and bulk hydride in the catalyst.

Using the MaNDi instrument, SNS beamline 11B, they hope to better understand how bacteria containing enzymes called beta - lactamases resist the beta - lactam class of antibiotics.

Using the Neutron Powder Diffractometer instrument, HFIR beamline HB - 2A, they determined how the material's magnetic structures correlate to its ferroelectric polarization, which is the slight separation between the centers of positive and negative charge in the atomic units making up the crystal structure.

Examples include handling data from faster detectors, like the Pilatus, handling new technologies, such as the X-ray free electron laser (XFEL), and handling new types of experiments, such as putting multiple crystals in the beamline at the same time, or running experiments using two different wavelengths at the same time.

Portions of this work were performed at GeoSoilEnviroCARS (sector 13), APS, supported by the NSF - Earth Sciences (EAR - 1128799) and DOE - GeoSciences (DE-FG02-94ER14466), at 34ID - E beamline, APS, and at 15U1, Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility.

ESS maintains a number of facilities for R&D, including workshops in Lund, test beamlines in Germany and Norway, and a thin films coating facility in Linköping.

This work was supported with grants from the NASA Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology Program, the NASA Astrobiology Institute, the W.M. Keck Foundation, the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Carnegie Institution of Canada, the Naval Research Laboratory, the NRC Research Associateship Program, Boston College, and the FQRNT Some data was acquired at beamline 5.3.2.2 at the ALS, which is supported by the Director of the Office of Science Department of Energy.

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.