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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
A research team, including scientists from MAX IV have reported in Nature Communications that the quest for atomic perfection in semiconductor devices was based on an oversimplified model. Semiconductors are the fundamental building blocks of all modern electronics. Improvements to these materials could affect everything from the clock on our microwave to supercomputers used
Note: Soft X-ray transmission polarizer based on ferromagnetic thin films. Rev Sci Instrum. 2018 Mar;89(3):036103. doi: 10.1063/1.5018396. Müller L1, Hartmann G2, Schleitzer S1, Berntsen MH3, Walther M1, Rysov R1, Roseker W1, Scholz F2, Seltmann J2, Glaser L2, Viefhaus J2, Mertens K4, Bagschik K5, Frömter R5, De Fanis A6, Shevchuk I6, Medjanik K7, Öhrwall G7,
Structural modelling of the DNAJB6 oligomeric chaperone shows a peptide-binding cleft lined with conserved S/T-residues at the dimer interface. Söderberg CAG1, Månsson C2, Bernfur K2, Rutsdottir G2, Härmark J3, Rajan S4, Al-Karadaghi S2, Rasmussen M5, Höjrup P5, Hebert H3, Emanuelsson C6. Sci Rep. 2018 Mar 26;8(1):5199. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-23035-9. Author information 1 MAX IV Laboratory, Lund
Synthesis of armchair graphene nanoribbons from the 10,10′-dibromo-9,9′-bianthracene molecules on Ag(111): the role of organometallic intermediates. Simonov KA1,2,3, Generalov AV4, Vinogradov AS5, Svirskiy GI5, Cafolla AA6, McGuinness C7, Taketsugu T8,9, Lyalin A9, Mårtensson N10, Preobrajenski AB11. Sci Rep. 2018 Feb 22;8(1):3506. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-21704-3. Author information 1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516,