Wilson West Update - January 2024
We are happy to report that Cornell Facilities & Campus Services Project Manager Alex Chevallard has asked contractor Streeter and their subcontractors to provide all the finishing touches and polish to the new Wilson West building by the end of January 2024. At that time the beautiful new building will be ready for the start of installation of the new sector 5 X-ray beamline - also knowns as the High Magnetic Field (HMF) facility.
National Science Data Fabric and CHESS Collaborate to Democratize Data-Driven Scientific Discovery
The National Science Data Fabric (NSDF) and CHESS have collaborated in establishing a trans-disciplinary approach for integrated data delivery and access to research data visualization, shared storage, networking, and computing resources.
CHESS celebrates construction milestone with Wilson West open house
Wilson West houses a new large experimental hall to accommodate the upcoming High Magnetic Field X-ray Beamline.
Intragranular micromechanical fields at triple junctions
What is the discovery?
Residual Stress Model Validation of Cold Hole Expansion in an Aerospace Aluminum Alloy
The Materials Solutions Network at CHESS (MSN-C) was leveraged to map strains using non-destructive x-ray methods not available at other USAF, Department of Defense, or private sector facilities. The high-flux and high-energy x-rays only available at a synchrotron light source, such as CHESS, enable a critical combination of high penetrating power, spatial resolution and measurement speed. This highlight is just one example of how MSN-C is permitting new, systematic studies of structural materials.
What did the scientists accomplish?
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Cyberinfrastructure Training Program Aims to Empower Scientists at CHESS
X-CITE aims to overcome barriers that have hindered the effective utilization of computing capabilities and data resources offered by major research and user facilities.
CHESS user Ando wins award for contributions to biochemistry and molecular biology
Ando has dedicated her career to “seeing” atoms using high energy X-rays with a technique called diffuse scattering; imagine a pair of glasses that allow you to see atoms and molecules. These glasses not only let you see these molecules but also very specific ways molecules move.
X-rays reveal microstructural fingerprints of 3D-printed alloy
The group’s paper, “Dendritic Deformation Modes in Additive Manufacturing Revealed by Operando X-Ray Diffraction,” published Oct. 10 in Nature Communications Materials. The lead author is doctoral student Adrita Dass, M.S. ’20.
Doctoral students Adrita Dass (left) and Chenxi Tian, and Atieh Moridi, assistant professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, created a portable twin of their 3D-printing setup.
CHESS Congratulates Prof. Moungi Bawendi (MIT) on receiving the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Prof Bawendi is an international leader in quantum dot synthesis and characterization, as well as a valued past CHESS user and collaborator. We congratulate his entire team on the well-deserved recognition of their decades of groundbreaking research. We encourage the CHESS user community to take a moment to acknowledge this milestone by revisiting some classic papers from Prof Bawendi, and/or his current and former students and postdocs, which made use of the CHESS facility:
Magneto-Fluorescent Core-Shell Supernanoparticles