MAX IV – We make the invisible visible

First light detected at CoSAXS

On Thursday November 14, the team at the CoSAXS beamline detected the first monochromatic light, a crucial step in the beamline commissioning activities.

2019-11-19

Reflections from the SESAME Scholarship Programme: Saeed Saedy

The Swedish Institute (SI) offered a training programme at MAX IV in 2019 for researchers from Middle Eastern countries affiliated with SESAME. Saeed Saedy discusses the experience with us.

2019-11-11

Reflections from the SESAME Scholarship Programme: Neama Imam

The Swedish Institute (SI) offered a training programme at MAX IV in 2019 for researchers from Middle Eastern countries affiliated with SESAME. Neama Imam gives her thoughts on the training.

2019-11-11

First Users at Balder Beamline Seek to Illuminate MXenes

In operation since September, Balder beamline has taken its first users to investigate MXenes, a class of nano-crystalline 2D-layered transition metal carbides, carbonitrides and nitrides.

2019-11-04

First remote operation at BioMAX

The users concluded that this was a positive experience, which they want to follow up already next week

2019-11-02

Many companies taking part in Ultra High Vacuum training at MAX IV & ESS

With practical demonstrations and trials of welding, leak testing, and other necessary skills for UHV, delivering companies gained new knowledge

2019-10-30

First installations at ForMAX

The beamline combining x-ray microtomography with small- and wide-angle x-ray scattering for multiscale structural characterization of hierarchical materials, is progressing

2019-10-28

Swedish ministers visiting MAX IV

"These visits give us the opportunity to show how we can contribute to solving global challenges and can help Swedish companies develop new technologies and products."

2019-10-25

First delivery of single-bunch electron beam to the 1.5 GeV ring

A strong single-bunch signal in the screenshot of a scope measurement of the current in the ring signals new era at MAX IV

2019-10-22

Discoveries map out CRISPR-Cas defence systems in bacteria

For the first time, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have mapped how bacterial cells trigger their defence against outside attacks. This could affect how diseases are fought in the future.

2019-09-25

Multiplicity conversion based on intramolecular triplet-to-singlet energy transfer

The dyad provides the first solid proof that Förster-type triplet-to-singlet energy transfer is possible, revealing a method to increase the rate of light extraction from excited triplet states

2019-09-23