We make the invisible visible
A new EU project in the program area Öresund-Kattegatt-Skagerak (ÖKS) has been approved. The Hanseatic League of Science (HALOS) will build a unique collaboration between Hamburg and South-West Scandinavia, bring together the four unique research facilities MAX IV, ESS, DESY and European XFEL, and create a centre for integrated, world-leading Life Science innovation and research.
MAX IV’s Anders Engdahl was part of a team that published a landmark study about biological tissue found in a Jurassic fossil. The work published this week in Nature is one of the most comprehensive studies of its kind and sheds new light on the life of a prehistoric sea creature. Ichthyosaurs were reptiles
Sara Blomberg is a postdoc at Department of Chemical Engineering, Lund University. Her research project “In situ activation study of NiMo catalyst tailored for biofuel production” focuses on characterisation of catalysts used in the hydrogenation processes of depolymerisation of lignin. What this translates to in layperson language is “trying to understanding how a catalyst cuts
The MAX IV accelerators are constructed with the goal of delivering the most intense and well defined beams of light possible to the experiment stations around the lab. There, researchers from all over the world use the light, predominantly in the ultraviolet and X-ray parts of the spectrum, for experiments on everything from new pharmaceuticals
The macromolecular crystallography beamline BioMAX have for the first time been running their sample changer on a regular basis. The robot has been changing 320 samples for four user groups within its first two weeks of operation. At a macromolecular crystallography beamline, the samples are biological molecules. One example is the proteins which are the
Researchers from Linköping performed experiments at the Max-Lab beamline I311. They recently published two papers, one in the journal Carbon and one in Nano Letters. This work will be conducted at the MAXPEEM beamline in the future which is expecting the first expert users in the first quarter of 2019. Here is the news release from
Advances in the world of physics often quickly lead to advances in the world of medical diagnostics. From the moment Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays he was using them to look through his wife’s hand. A lot of the physics principles at the foundation of MAX IV are also at the foundation of medical imaging technologies
The MAX IV Board submitted a progress report on the Action plan to the Swedish Research Council and the Vice-Chancellor of Lund University as of 6 November. It contains detailed report on changes already made or in the making as well as on more long-term developments needed to make MAX IV Laboratory open more beamlines
The Foundation for Strategic Research, SSF, awarded over SEK 236 million to 33 different projects to promote the development of instruments, methods and technologies that provide the prerequisites for future, advanced research and innovation. One of the researchers who was granted funding is Kajsa Sigfridsson Clauss who is a scientist at the Balder beamline at
MAX IV transitioned over to an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) at the end of September to protect the linear accelerator and storage rings from perturbations in the power supply. The UPS offers instantaneous protection from power outages, and is capable of providing uninterrupted electrical power to MAX IV for 15 seconds with all accelerators in