MAX IV – We make the invisible visible

Gingko tree growing on the inner yard of MAX IV Laboratory

Illuminating extinct plant generates new knowledge

Scientists have been able to establish relationships between 200-million-year-old plants based on their chemical fingerprints

2017-07-04

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One year anniversary

Since opening 21 June 2016 and up to the summer shutdown MAX IV Laboratory will have received 21 groups of scientists, involved in circa 50 different research projects.

2017-06-21

FemtoMAX makes first time-resolved X-ray diffraction experiment

The sample is a structure called photo-acoustic transducer and it is indium antimonide covered with 60 nanometres of gold.

2017-04-11

Emil Tykesson – one of the first users at BioMAX

– It is very fascinating to carry out experiments as one of the first users at BioMAX, says Emil Tykesson, postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Analysis and Synthesis, LTH and the Department...

2017-04-06

Infrared shines light on early stage of Alzheimer’s disease

Researchers at Lund University have used MAX IV to produce images that predate the formation of toxic clumps of beta-amyloid, the protein believed to be at the root of Alzheimer’s disease.

2017-03-20