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Designing or exploring new materials is all about controlling their properties. In a new study, Cornell scientists offer insight on how different “knobs” can change material properties in ways that were previously unexplored or misunderstood.

CHESS is pleased to congratulate one of our new principal investigators for 2014, Professor Aaron Stebner from the Colorado School of Mines, for being the recent recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Career award to study anisotropy and asymmetry of shape memory alloys and stainless steels using far field X-ray diffraction. 

Thanks to the installation of two canted undulators last November*, both G1 and G3 have recently achieved best-ever photon fluxes in the last several months, despite temporary operation at reduced current.

We often consider bystanders and spectators unimportant, however in chemical reactions they can make a difference, as shown in a recent paper by David Moore and coworkers [1], that just came out in Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). 

Many ancient inscriptions on stones have been worn and weathered, and the original text is no longer visible. Scanning X-ray fluorescence (SXRF) imaging of chemical tracing elements on epigraphy has been used to significantly improve the legibility of heavily weathered and worn stone surfaces.

Xraise has been playing an active role in coordinating learning activities addressing the engineering design standards featured in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). 

A collaboration between Cornell and the Kitchen Theatre Company (KTC) has found a new way to make physics irresistible, with “Physics Fair,” an original musical theater production.

The recent realization of X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs) has excited the imagination over what new measurements can be done with the unprecedented peak brightness and short time duration of the pulses.