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“If there’s one thing I want everybody to remember, it’s this one statement: Anything a biomolecule does changes its volume.”

The recent upgrade of the storage ring has positioned CHESS as a synchrotron facility that is well-suited for in situ studies of materials dynamics with sub-microsecond temporal resolution.

Rather than analyze diffraction data with a physics-based X-ray model to try to extract structural information chosen a priori, a team comprised of researchers from CHEXS, Cornell, and NIST used the unsupervised learning technique, locally linear embedding (LLE), to condense X-ray data down to critical microstructural (dislocation configuration) evolution information.

The fairness of the proposal review and beamtime allocation process is crucial to CHESS. We polled our proposal reviewers recently to assess their view of the CHESS proposal review process.

The Materials Solutions Network at CHESS (MSN-C) has received a renewal of funding from the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) for its second year of operation.

With summer programs moved online due to COVID-19 - the PREM (Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials) students from Puerto Rico, who would normally be visiting CHESS this summer, are instead attending online lectures and interacting with other students through Zoom. This program is supported by the NSF-PREM CiE2M – the Center for Interfacial Electrochemistry of Energy Materials – a partnership of The University of Puerto Rico, Rio PiedrasCampus (UPRRP), Universidad Metropolitana (UMET) and Universidad del Turabo (UT), and CHESS.

"The workshop at CHESS brought together over 130 researchers from industry, national laboratories, and academia to learn more about high-energy X-ray imaging and diffraction capabilities for studying rock deformation."

"Due to the travel restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the entire workshop was conducted virtually using Zoom. Over three days, the workshop consisted of both didactic lectures and hands-on tutorials."