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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.
Hands-on x-ray emission workshop at Cornell in June 2015
Inner-shell x-ray emission (XES) and absorption (XAS) spectroscopies are complimentary methods. The first senses valence state structure of atoms in molecules and complexes, the second reports on lowest lying unoccupied states.
Synchrotron laboratory welcomes new particle accelerator module
Last month, the basement of Newman Laboratory opened to transport a distinctive red pipe containing the Main Linac Cyromodule — a prototype designed to accelerate particles with unparalleled energy efficiency — across campus.
'Shield' gives tricky proteins a new identity
Studding the lipid membrane of every cell are millions of integral membrane proteins – molecules that play crucial roles in cell signaling, adhesion and other life processes, and become the targets for half of today’s pharmaceutical drugs.
Lighted clothing that flashes to beat of music will hit runway
These clothes soon may be all the rave: Fiber science and physics students have teamed to create fashionable “smart” garments with vivid, luminescent panels that pulse to music.
Anomalous thermal behavior of small gold nanoparticles
When we heat up something, we usually expect it to come out less ordered, e.g. ice turns to water. On cooling, order returns: water crystallizes to ice.