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Shedding new light on secondary science programs: A visit to Brookhaven National Laboratory
An eight-hour van ride to Long Island did not deter Xraise from participating in the May 2017 joint National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS-II) and Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) User Meeting at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Meet the Millers, a Cornell Engineering father-daughter team
If you are an engineering major at Cornell, there will be times that are hard. Maybe for you it’s the Statics and Mechanics of Solids class. Or it could be Introductory Quantum Mechanics. Maybe it’s the fact that everyone else in class seems to understand the material and you feel utterly lost. It could be three prelims in three days.
Synchrotron-based XRF mapping helps elucidate Picasso’s Blue Period techniques
Transitions in an artist’s style, technique and subject matter are often an enduring source of inquiry and fascination. To those familiar with Pablo Picasso’s life, 1901 is well known as one such period of transition.
CESR CHESS-U activities: Production of magnet assemblies
CHESS-U work on the CESR side is well into the pre-production phase. Most long lead items are on order and production work at Wilson lab is underway for several systems.
The Real Thing: D-line sample robot serves first user group
Combinatorial thin film research can comprise hundreds of samples grown with slightly different compositions or processing conditions.
High school teachers learn about electrical circuits using water analogies
Even a Saturday snow storm wasn’t enough to keep science teachers away from a teacher workshop at CHESS this past March (even the ones that drove all the way from Virginia!).
Lateral or vertical — that is the question!
In a Forum Article, which was recently published online in the journal “ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces” [1], Anatoly V. Berezkin and coworkers attempted to figure out what happens when you prepare thin films from two homologous diblock copolymers differing only in overall length.
March 2017 workshop on CHESS-U as a pulsed x-ray source
Our users may be aware that during the summer of 2016, CHESS hosted six workshops to help outline a science case for an upgraded single-beam, high-energy source that will result from the current CHESS-U upgrade project.