Advances in synchrotron instrumentation and techniques developed by the CHEXS scientific and technical staff as well as the scientific advances made by CHEXS users both contribute to the intellectual merit of CHEXS. 

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New Oxygen-Reduction Electrocatalysts for Alkaline Fuel Cells

kagome superconductors

Structural evolution of the kagome superconductors through charge density wave order

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Using real-time data analysis to conduct next-generation synchrotron fatigue studies

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Inline small-angle X-ray scattering-coupled chromatography under extreme hydrostatic pressure

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Nanocrystals with Metastable High-Pressure Phases Under Ambient Conditions

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Super Cornell Compact Undulator (sCCU) Compact Variable-Gap Undulator with Hydraulic-Assist Driver and Enhanced Magnetic Field

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Intermediate Valence State in YbB4 Revealed by Resonant X-ray Emission Spectroscopy

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Dynamics of Recrystallized Grains in a Hot-Compressed Mg-Zn-Ca Alloy

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Characterization of 128 x 128 MM-PAD-2.1 ASIC: a Fast Framing Hard X-ray Detector with High Dynamic Range

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Unconventional Hysteretic Transition in a Charge Density Wave

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Nonprecious transition metal nitrides as efficient oxygen reduction electrocatalysts for alkaline fuel cells

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Analysis of a three-dimensional slip field in a hexagonal Ti alloy from in-situ high-energy X-ray diffraction microscopy data

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Assessment of DFT methods for geometry optimization of platinum-containing complexes

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Phase-specific deformation in additively manufactured Ni–CrC composites

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Structural and magnetic transitions in the planar antiferromagnet Ba4Ir3O10

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In situ spectroscopy as a probe of electrocatalyst performance

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Unconventional chiral charge order in kagome superconductor KV3Sb5

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Protein unfolded states populated at high and ambient pressure are similarly compact

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Investigation of porosity, texture, and deformation behavior using high energy X-rays during in-situ tensile loading in additively manufactured 316L stainless steel

Showing the subtle superstructure at low temperatures of Ta4Pd3Te16

Incommensurate charge order in a low-dimensional superconductor

Three-dimensional renderings of the sample volumes grown from the centroids measured using ff-HEDM.

Grain-resolved temperature-dependent anisotropy in hexagonal Ti-7Al revealed by synchrotron X-ray diffraction

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Fe Cations Control the Plasmon Evolution in CuFeS2 Nanocrystals

antifluorite structure

Approaching the ideal limit for spin-orbit-coupled quantum moments in iridium halides

HPSAXS Cell at CHESS

High-pressure small-angle X-ray scattering cell for biological solutions and soft materials

Gabrielle Illava manipulating samples within the anaerobic chamber

BioSAXS facility at CHEXS develops stringent anoxic sample environment

nickel-based superalloy sample

Unsupervised Learning of Dislocation Motion

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X-rays quantify stress gradients at twin boundaries, which can drive fatigue failure in nickel-based superalloys.

HEDM initial orientation

In-situ high energy X-ray diffraction probes elastic response of metastable engineered alloys

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Biology Under Pressure: Beta-lactoglobulin survives under pressures as high as 9000 bar

EXAFS Data

2020 PREM X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and EXAFS Workshop

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Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly of Coil−Comb-Shaped Polypeptoid Block Copolymers

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CHESS to restart in June for COVID-19 research

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Spontaneous Gyrotropic Electronic Order in 1?-TiSe₂