We make the invisible visible
Welcome to the second joint MAX IV – ESS science colloquium! When: 15 May, 15:15. Where: conference room MAX III, MAX IV Laboratory, Who: Ann Terry, Group Manager for Diffraction and Scattering, MAX IV Laboratory What: Talk on the topic Large Spiders at Small Angles. Why is silk so fascinating? How do spiders spin their
Matilda Ernkrans, Swedish Minister for Higher Education and Research, did a tour of MAX IV as part of her visit to Lund on Tuesday 30 April. “We are very happy to welcome the new Swedish Minister for Higher Education and Research and show her the versatility of this facility and the broad use it has
These copper disks are going to become transverse deflecting cavities for the new diagnostic beamline A new diagnostic beamline connected directly to the MAX IV linear accelerator is under construction. It will enable time-resolved characterization of primarily the ultrashort electron bunches for the FemtoMAX beamline but will also be useful for other time-resolved experiments. The
From left to right: Robert Seidel, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin; Nønne Prisle, Kamal Raj and Jack Lin, University of Oulu at the HIPPIE beamline The ATMOS research group in the NANOMO unit, led by Nønne Prisle, Associate Professor at the University of Oulu, are trying to find out what kind of chemistry is happening in
Over the last decades, the astonishing properties of carbon nanomaterials have attracted scientific interest and efforts to improve their potential has been made. The unique electrical, optical and mechanical properties have encouraged the continuous research breakthroughs, hence accelerating the commercialisation process. To meet the specific requirements demanded by an application or expand their use to
Greger Hammarin talks about using electric fields to induce protein motion and capturing it with the short X-ray pulses at FemtoMAX. Your body contains a large variety of different proteins. They are big, complex molecules with diverse functions, from transporting oxygen in your blood to making your muscles contract. Many proteins change their shape and
The spring call for proposals for eight beamlines at MAX IV closed 19 March with a total of 228 proposals from 28 countries. The number of applications is on par with proposals received when the former MAX-lab peaked, which shows that the demand from users is high as well as is their confidence in getting excellent tools
A booklet has seen the light! It highlights the first phase beamlines funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg (KAW) foundation which are now is gradually going into operation. The booklet is an attempt to visualise the quite challenging journey from the first ideas discussed more than a decade ago to beamlines that are now
MAX IV has just received the written report from the committee appointed by the Swedish Research Council (VR) to review the Laboratory’s progress on project management on 19 February 2019. The committee recognised the progress made, not only in bringing more beamlines to the commissioning stage and in several cases, close to operation, but also
Clean fresh water is a scarce resource. Areas of the world suffering from drought have to filter the salt out of seawater to make it drinkable. In other areas, the water may instead have a high content of toxic compounds, such as arsenic. If you think about a water filter as a kind of strainer