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beamlines

Beamlines

Beamline Directory

Beamline

Beamline Acronym

Beamline Number

Photon Energy Range

Partner

Research Focus

Biological Small Angle X-ray Solution Scattering
and High-Pressure Biology Beamline

HP BioSAXS & BioSAXS 7A1

7-14 keV at 1.5% bandwidth q = 0.005 - 0.7 Å-1

CHEXS

MacCHESS

Biomolecular structure from solution; High-pressure studies in biophysics; Food Science.
Flexible Protein Crystallography and
High-Pressure Biology Beamline
HPBio MX
& FlexX
7B2 8-14 keV

CHEXS

MacCHESS

Macromolecular crystallography(MX);
Standard cryocrystallography, Serial crystallography; High-Pressure cryocooling, high-pressure crystallography in diamond anvil cell.
Forming and Shaping Beamline FAST 3A 20-70 keV CHEXS Time-resolved studies of manufacturing processes of structural metals.
Photon-In, Photon-Out X-ray Spectroscopy Beamline PIPOXS 2A 3.5-58 keV CHEXS X-ray spectroscopic studies of geometric and valence electronic structure in catalytic systems and functional materials
Q-Mapping for Quantum Materials Beamline QM2 4B 6-70 keV CHEXS High-throughput characterization of quantum materials
Functional Materials Beamline FMB 3B 9.7, 15.9, 18.6, 22.5 keV MSN-C Time-resolved in-situ characterization of soft materials during processing.
Structural Materials Beamline SMB 1A3

Monochromatic X-rays: 40-80 keV

White beam x-rays: 50>200 keV

MSN-C High-energy monochromatic and white-beam characterization of materials' structure and evolution across length-scales.
Center for High-Energy X-ray Sciences at CHESS (CHEXS at CHESS) is supported by the National Science Foundation, NSF.
The National Institute of Health (NIH) and New York State (through NYSTAR) jointly support facilities for macromolecular X-ray science at CHESS (MacCHESS).
The Materials Solutions Network at CHESS (MSN-C) is supported by the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL).
7A1 beamline

XBio / BioSAXS beamline

Defluorinase

XBio / FlexX beamline

Grain map

FAST Beamline

staff at the beamline

PIPOXS Beamline (ID2A)

QM2

QM2 Beamline

Group photo of FMB beamline

Functional Materials Beamline

rams2

Structural Materials Beamline

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