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New beamline, dedicated lab space, new equipment!
The FALL 2013 commissioning of G1 line as the new home for BioSAXS far exceeded our expectations! Beam stability was rock solid and we were able to routinely collect data below q = 0.006 A-1 at a faster pace than ever!
CHESS capillaries improve resolution of APS microscope
Updates of CHESS single-bounce capillary development
New CdTe pixel-array-detectors for high-energy diffraction at A2
CHESS has recently acquired and commissioned a lightweight, high-resolution, high dynamic range area detector ideally suited for hard x-ray reciprocal space mapping of single crystal samples.
Angel Rodriguez-Fernandez commissions new diffractometer at C-line
CHESS just installed a new HUBER 6-circle diffractometer (illustrated below) in the C-line (bend magnet) experiment hutch.
Measuring reaction kinetics in protein crystals with confocal microscopy
Confocal microscopy is a powerful tool for imaging a variety of biological samples, including protein crystals.
New air-free glovebox facility
New Specimen Prep Capability: CHESS has added an MBraun Labmaster glovebox to its suite of sample preparation facilities.
GISAXS/GIWAXS furnace ready for action
Two user groups have used a new, custom-built glass tube furnace (Absolute Nano, Plymouth, MI), now available for general use at G1, for in situ studies of thermal behavior in thin films.