Sentences with phrase «of synchrotron facilities»

In fact, biochemists were already beginning to take advantage of synchrotron facilities to study the dynamics of «soft crystals,» which are composed of biomacromolecules such as enzymes that have a lot of solvent inside.

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Improving the transparency and helping to ensure the performance of future large - scale projects is the mission of an information management group at the Deutsches Elektronen - Synchrotron (DESY), the German research center for accelerator and synchrotron facilities, writes Synchrotron (DESY), the German research center for accelerator and synchrotron facilities, writes synchrotron facilities, writes Lars Hagge.

The Polygone Scientifique de Grenoble is already host to three prestigious European institutes: the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), which is one of the three most powerful sources of x-ray beams in the world; the Institut Laue - Langevin, the world's most intense source of neutron beams; and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Outstation in Grenoble, which studies protein structure.

In particular, ELETTRA, a third generation synchrotron radiation facility dedicated to many aspects of materials science such as crystallography, spectroscopy, and lithography, has put me in touch with a very broad scientific community and allowed me to find opportunities.

«There is no other centre like the Grenoble international site in the world, with a third - generation synchrotron and a high - powered neutron source and state - of - the - art laboratory facilities,» he says.

The research team was led by Agnès Dewaele from the French national technological research organization CEA, alongside members of the French National Center for Scientific Research CNRS and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility ESRF in Grenoble (France).

The stimulus, for instance, will also aid in the renovation of the RIKEN SPring - 8 synchrotron, one of the top photon science research facilities in the world, and the construction of data links between Japan's universities and RIKEN's K supercomputer, the world's fastest computer in 2011 and still ranked fourth today.

Co-authors of the paper are Rice graduate students Huilong Fei and Gonglan Ye, postdoctoral researcher Nam Dong Kim, alumni Errol Samuel and Zhiwei Peng, and Pulickel Ajayan, chair of the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering and a professor of chemistry at Rice; Juncai Dong and Dongliang Chen of the Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing; research associate M. Josefina Arellano - Jiménez and José Yacamán, chairman of the Department of Physics, at the University of Texas at San Antonio; and graduate students Zhuan Zhu and Fan Qin and Jiming Bao, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, at the University of Houston.

This February, they were analyzed by one of the highest - tech tools available, the synchrotron at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenobsynchrotron at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in GrenobSynchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France.

Shim and his research team combined X-ray techniques in the synchrotron radiation facility at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Labs and atomic resolution electron microscopy at ASU to determine what causes unusual flow patterns in rocks that lie 600 miles and more deep within the Earth.

A final - year Italian Ph.D. student in materials surface science, Erik Vesselli describes how the presence of many big institutions in Trieste, in particular the synchrotron radiation facility at ELETTRA, have contributed to offer him a dynamic, international, and creative scientific environment.

A collaboration between researchers from KEK, the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), RIKEN, and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) used the SACLA X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) facility for a real time visualization of the birth of a molecule that occurs via photo - induced formation of a chemical bonds.

Stone highlighted the planned construction, beginning in 2018, of the Iranian Light Source Facility (ILSF), which would be the country's first synchrotron and its «biggest basic science project ever,» as «a testament to the country's determination to do science in spite of turmoil, political interference, and the viselike grip of economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies to block Iran's suspected effort to develop nuclear weapons.

Brookhaven, which has more than 3000 employees and an annual budget of $ 400 million, is home to several major DOE facilities, including the High Flux Beam Reactor — one of the nation's premier neutron - scattering centers — and two major synchrotrons that are used for a host of materials, biology, and medical research experiments.

Forming the backbone of the center, slated for completion in 2023, will be a powerful synchrotron — the Beijing Advanced Photon Source — a supercomputer, and two other big - ticket facilities that will together cost $ 1.4 billion to build.

This calculation method enabled us to more accurately perform theoretical prediction of IMFP compared to the experimental value, which was obtained by applying spectrometry (extended X ‐ ray absorption fine structure spectrometry) to low - speed electrons of Copper and molybdenum at the high - brilliant synchrotron radiation facility, and to explain the relationship between energy measurement and the types of materials.

Scientists from Los Alamos, Argonne National Laboratory and National Security Technologies LLC generated shock waves in cerium samples using the state - of - the - art IMPact system for ULtrafast Synchrotron Experiments (IMPULSE), which was developed specifically for use at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Argonne.

The Victorian government, the largest stakeholder of the synchrotron, is backing the board and there is no indication that it will replace Walters, which the facility's governing constitution would allow.

And the board agreed to a meeting next Wednesday with the synchrotron's scientists, a move that has seen the cessation of the strike for now; the facility is again operating full - time.

Ni's collaborators include Dr. Christopher Beard of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh; Dr. Daniel Gebo of Northern Illinois University; Dr. Marian Dagosto of Northwestern University in Chicago; Dr. Jin Meng and Dr. John Flynn of the American Museum of Natural History in New York; and Dr. Paul Tafforeau of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France.

For this purpose, the Mainz physicists have been collaborating with scientists of the BESSY II synchrotron facility at the Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy and the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA, as well as with the Technical University of Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart.

He drew this to the attention of European specialists, including the lead author on the paper, Dr Renate Matzke - Karasz, from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, who examined the specimens with Dr Paul Tafforeau at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France.

Working with mass - spectroscopy specialists at the French national research agency in Gif - sur - Yvette and with scientists at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, they used two types of mass spectroscopy and two methods of x-ray scanning.

Using X-ray crystallography, performed at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, Cusack and colleagues were able to determine the atomic structure of the whole polymerase from two strains of influenza: influenza B, one of the strains that cause seasonal flu in humans, but which evolves slowly and therefore isn't considered a pandemic threat; and the strain of influenza A — the fast - evolving strain that affects humans, birds and other animals and can cause pandemics — that infects bats.

Pauling's theory was not tested until the group of researchers — comprised of Eric Isaacs, Donald Hamann and Phil Platzman of Bell Labs; Bernardo Barbiellini, now at Northeastern University; Abhay Shukla of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF); and Christopher A. Tulk of National Research Council of Canada — devised a clever experiment.

Using X-ray crystallographic data collected at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Luca Jovine's research team at Karolinska Institutet first visualised the sperm - interacting regions of two egg coat proteins, ZP2 in mammals (including humans) and VERL in the marine mollusc abalone (a classic model system of invertebrate fertilisation).

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.

«Prof. Pokroy took a sample of Entotheonella to the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility within a week of seeing that first image,» said Dr. Keren.

They performed these studies at the former National Synchrotron Light Source I (NSLS - I) and its successor facility, NSLS - II (both DOE Office of Science User Facilities at Brookhaven), with an instrument developed and operated by the CFN.

Ni's collaborators include Dr. Christopher Beard of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh; Dr. Daniel Gebo of Northern Illinois University; Dr. Marian Dagosto of Northwestern University in Chicago; Dr. Jin Meng and Dr. John Flynn of the American Museum of Natural History in New York; and Dr. Paul Tafforeau of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France.

This should yield a more realistic view, and can be done at synchrotrons such as ALS or SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, a DOE Office of Science User Facility.

Using the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), researchers analysed the effects of Organo - Osmium FY26 in ovarian cancer cells — detecting emissions of X-ray fluorescent light to track the activity of the compound inside the cells.

Professor Masanobu Izaki and colleagues at Toyohashi University of Technology, in collaboration with researchers at the Research Center for Photovoltaic Technologies, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, have analyzed the structure of a zinc - based buffer layer in a CIGS solar cell at SPring8 (the world's largest third - generation synchrotron radiation facility, located in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan).

«Uranium dissolved in groundwater flows slowly into nearby rivers, where it becomes diluted below the uranium concentrations naturally present in river water,» says John Bargar, SLAC's project lead and researcher at the lab's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), a DOE Office of Science User Facility.

Then they cut the electrode into extremely thin slices and took them to Berkeley Lab for examination with intense X-rays from the Advanced Light Source synchrotron, a DOE Office of Science User Facility.

The CO2 utilisation group worked in collaboration with the University of Nebraska - Lincoln and the European Synchrotron Research Facility in Grenoble in the formation of the catalyst.

Using premier beams of ultraviolet light at the ALS, a DOE national user facility for synchrotron radiation, the collaboration has reported the first demonstration of high - temperature superconductivity in the surface of a topological insulator — a unique class of advanced materials that are electrically insulating on the inside but conducting on the surface.

Sattari described Iran as transitioning from a «traditional and resource - based economy toward a knowledge - based economy,» through education and the expansion of research facilities such as the upcoming Iranian National Observatory and Iranian Light Source Facility synchrotron project.

They performed Micro-beam in - situ stress experiments in the mySpot BESSY facility of HZB, Berlin, Germany and analyzed the local orientation of the mineral nanoparticles using the nano - imaging facility of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble,facility of HZB, Berlin, Germany and analyzed the local orientation of the mineral nanoparticles using the nano - imaging facility of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble,facility of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble,Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France.

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 new study definitively shows that the pseudogap is one of the things that stands in the way of getting superconductors to work at higher temperatures for everyday uses, said lead author Makoto Hashimoto, a staff scientist at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), the DOE Office of Science User Facility where the experiments were carried out.

There are also other kinds of rooted infrastructure, such as research parks, research incubators, national user facilities (such as synchrotron light sources), and so forth.

It is also the nation's leading builder of large scientific facilities; the 10 labs funded by the office host x-ray synchrotrons, neutron sources, atom smashers, and other user facilities.

Brookhaven Lab announces that it is beginning construction of the conventional facilities at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS - II), a project that will advance energy research for the nation and create hundreds of jobs for Long Island over the next several years.

The National Synchrotron Light Source II detects its first photons, beginning a new phase of the facility's operations.

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.

The first bits of the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS - II) ring building are now taking shape after the concrete - pouring process for the new, world - class facility began on Monday, July 20.

Research organisations including: African Rice Centre, Bayer, CERN, COST, Elhuyar Fundazioa, Elsevier, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, University of California Davis, Helmholtz - Gemeinschaft, Imperial College, Wiley, Elsevier, Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology, European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA), European Molecular Biology Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, European Science Foundation, Taylor & Francis, European Southern Observatory, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Fondazione Parco Biomedico San Raffaele, The Geological Society of America, Harvard University School of Engineering, Max - Planck - Gesellschaft, Mayo Clinic, Research Council of Norway, Swiss National Science Foundation, Tekes, Vetenskapsrådet,...

The project's long - term goal is to help Danish industry make the most of nearby large - scale research facilities such as the European Spallation Source, the MAX IV synchrotron and the European X-Ray Free Electron Laser.

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.