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High school students begin research journey at CHESS
During the last week of May, twelve high school students and two high school teachers visited CHESS from Oakville, Ontario.
Switchable nanorods
Nanorods are elongated nanoparticles with aspect ratios of typically 3:1 to 10:1 and thus have interesting structural and optical anisotropies.
Coming this July: Small Angle Scattering for structural biology and soft matter physics; a training workshop
Back by popular demand: MacCHESS' Richard Gillilan is heading up another international training course in Small Angle Scattering (SAS) at the annual meeting of the American Crystallographic Association this summer in Philadelphia.
Mutations in the canine parvovirus capsid make it more infectious
Canine parvovirus (CPV) is closely related to the feline panleukopenia virus (FPV), also a parvovirus, that infects domestic cats and some non-domestic carnivores.
Colorado School of Mines student Bucsek wins prestigious NSF graduate fellowship
CHESS veteran Ashley Bucsek, a graduate student from the Colorado School of Mines, won a 2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for her thesis work developing data analysis theory and models for studying phase transformation and twinning in metallic alloys using far field high-energy diffraction microscopy (HEDM).
X-rays get handle on very long time scale glassy behavior
In a recent ACS MacroLetters article Yu Ho Wen, Jennifer Schaefer, and Lynden Archer from the Cornell School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering report on a systematic study using small-angle x-ray scattering at CHESS to map the structural relaxation for colloidal glasses.
CHESS provides a simple new method for users to obtain scientific software
CHESS supports a wide variety of x-ray techniques, many of which require use of multiple sophisticated, highly-specialized software packages to form a data analysis “pipeline” to reduce and process the data generated here.
GIAC students tear it up at Xraise
Anyone who has and peered inside a disassembled laptop computer knows there are a lot of electronic components packed inside the case.