We make the invisible visible
Photo of heated steel sample in the analysis chamber at the HERMES beamline, Soleil, Paris. If you watched a wildlife documentary and then visited your local zoo, you may have been disappointed. Animals in captivity don’t behave the same as those in the wild. In the same way, when we study materials in the
Two-dimensional sheets of graphene in the form of ribbons a few tens of nanometers across have unique properties that are highly interesting for use in future electronics. Researchers have now for the first time fully characterised nanoribbons grown in both the two possible configurations on the same wafer with a clear route towards upscaling
On the surface of copper, carbon dioxide molecules can stick and break up into carbon monoxide and oxygen. This is the first step in converting this greenhouse gas into other useful chemicals. Researchers have used the HIPPIE experiment station of MAX IV to study which properties of the copper surface makes the reaction most efficient.
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 world is transitioning away from fossil fuels and hydrogen is poised to be the replacement. Two things are needed if we are to make the transition to a low carbon, “hydrogen economy” they are clean and high yielding sources of hydrogen, as well as efficient means of producing and storing energy using hydrogen. Hydrogen
Work published in the Royal Society of Chemistry with the support of the Helmholtz Association through the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science at DESY. MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Sweden, European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 and the Academy of Finland. Remember doing titrations in chemistry class? Adding acid drop-by-drop
Modern microelectronics relies on semiconductors and their metal electrodes. High-performance device functionality demands high transistor density within a single chip, which soon will reach the physical limits of bulk materials. Alternatives have been found in atomically thin materials, e.g. graphene and its semiconductive inorganic relatives. MoS2 (molybdenum disulphide) is the representative inorganic layered crystal with
The vacuum chambers of MAXIV are only 22 mm of diameter; the chamber size was chosen in order to fit inside the compact magnets of the storage ring. Due to the small diameter of the chamber, the conventional way of pumping using lumped pumps is not efficient nor practical, accordingly, the vacuum system of
“BioMAX serial crystallography setup using a High Viscosity Extrusion (HVE) injector specially designed for the BioMAX endstation by Bruce Doak of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, and fabricated at that institute.” BioMAX has successfully performed the first serial crystallography experiments at the beamline. This new method is performed at room temperature