We make the invisible visible
Research performed at beamline Balder at MAX IV gives new insights into the arrangement of solvent molecules around metal ions. In this case, the ion studied was copper(II). The knowledge gained furthers the understanding of metal-containing biomolecules in our bodies, and materials used for catalysis. Many molecules in our bodies contain metal ions. An example
The image depicts a schematic of platinum atoms deposited on the surface of the carbon “buffer-layer”. The buffer layer, grown epitaxially on silicon carbide, is a graphene-like 2D insulating material that enables the two-dimensional growth mode of platinum. The chemical-to-electrical transduction with atomically-thin platinum is possible due to inherent interactions of transition metals with chemical
image: User interface for FragMAX screening platform at MAX IV Researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), in collaboration with MAX IV’s BioMAX team, have validated a new diverse universal compound library used in the process of drug discovery and development. The HZB study, published in CellPress, sourced the power of MAX IV’s macromolecular crystallography beamline BioMAX
With its three endstations, FinEstBeAMS is becoming one of MAX IV most prolific beamlines. Recently, three new articles on scintillators are the first studies to be produced using FinEstBeAMS’s photoluminescence endstation. FinEstBeAMS, the Finnish-Estonian beamline at MAX IV’s 1.5 GeV storage ring, offers research opportunities in the fields of atmospheric and material science. Recently no
Image: FemtoMAX beamline at MAX IV A research group working with MAX IV’s FemtoMAX beamline has succeeded to slow the phase change from the solid to liquid state in the semiconductor, indium antimonide (InSb), by reducing the inherent vibrations between atoms. An important precursory step in the process was non-thermal melting of the sample, which
Just before lunch 2 June 2020 the Danish beamline DanMAX saw first light. Representatives from DTU, Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen followed the process online. It was a happy beamline team that could share this moment and as Mads Ry Vogel Jørgensen, project manager diffraction, so adequately describes it it’s several years
European Open Science Cloud initiative: ExPaNDS project. credit: Diamond Light Source How can European researchers better share data and access valuable data from others across domains and specialties to conduct their experiments? The answer lies in a new, large-scale European data science project through the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative. For MAX IV
An international collaboration between the UCL School of Pharmacy, the Lund Protein Production Platform (LP3) and ESS, through its DEMAX platform, have initiated biophysical and structural studies of three non-structural proteins from the novel coronavirus, SARS CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19. Recently they managed to solve and have now started to analyse one of
Hur förvandlar man en svart sörja från skogsindustrin till ett klart rinnande biobränsle att tanka bilen med? Det försöker Sara Blomberg reda ut. Till sin hjälp har hon röntgenljus från MAX IV och Vetenskapsradions podd Forskarliv har träffat henne här. Lyssna och ladda ner!
A new five-axis parallel kinematic mirror unit has been developed for MAX IV soft X-ray beamlines. Its development and technical characteristics are now described in a peer-reviewed article. In an article published in March 2020 in the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, a team from Uppsala University, MAX IV Laboratory, FMB Feinwerk und Messtechnik GmbH, and