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Innovative transmission-mode diamond X-ray detector gives complete picture
Motivated to create a technology that could monitor, in real time, the full volumetric beam properties of an incident x-ray beam, a group of researchers from SUNY Stony Brook, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Case Western Reserve University have invented, fabricated and tested a new pixelated diamond x-ray beam “window” detector that could promise to revolutionize beamline design.
Horizontal beam stabilization for undulator beamlines at CHESS
Over the past few years CHESS has implemented and continually improved a vertical beam position correction program to reduce beam motion throughout each run as the beam decays as well as from run to run (see related article).
BioSAXS works to uncover cellular machinery involved in regulation of DNA transcription
The biology of human diseases and disorders is highly complex. In many cases, despite a great deal of detailed structural knowledge, understanding mechanisms is still a long way off.
X-rays record structural changes inside lithium batteries
Organic molecules are proving themselves attractive and promising alternatives for electrical energy storage applications.
Today's "Junk Genies," tomorrow's engineers
Now into the fourth year of its JunkGenies programming, Xraise is paving the way when it comes to infusing engineering design practices into science outreach.
CHESS user fights fish disease
Michelle Zhang, an undergraduate student in biological and environmental engineering, and a frequent user at the CHESS Sample Environment Lab, was part of the Cornell iGEM team in this year’s competition.
X-ray probes glass-to-liquid transitions in water at cryogenic temperatures
Water has an unusual property at cryogenic temperatures; it becomes randomly arranged in a way similar to glass. This property, known as the amorphous state, is important in X-ray crystallography because protein crystals need to be maintained at low temperatures without having its lattice disrupted by crystalline ice.
A guest's perspective on outreach
The second week in August was a busy and productive week at Cornell University. Students from throughout the region traveled to campus to spend two days creating, building, teaming, designing, reflecting, learning, touring, asking questions and being junior engineers as part of the Cornell Summer Science Snapshot program.