Beamline optics

…light spot on the sample is essentially the size of the exit slit aperture, demagnified by a factor close to 10. So for example, an exit slit setting of (100×200)µm…

AdaptoCell

…Customized Microfluidics, Uppsala University) are available. Example of designs available are straight channels, hydrodynamic flow focusing channels, droplet generators and mixing channels. A special designed COC polymer co-flow chip for…

Metals and engineering

…X-rays to find innovative, sustainable ways to map and exploit metallic materials’ properties. Two examples are the exploration of hydrogen as energy carrier in applications and the quest for composites…

SPECIES

…for studies on solid-vapour/gas-liquid interfaces. This is, for example, relevant for studies of corrosion processes, heterogeneous catalysis, charge/discharge cycling of batteries, film growth etc. We work in close collaboration with…

XRF data

Example of an XRF map from Balder using the 7 element Ge detector. The sample was a cross-section of a seed fern on a microscopic glass slide (25 x75 mm)….

Safety requirements for contractors

…the supplier upon request or usually easy accessible through their webpage. The SDS is needed to make a proper risk assessment. Examples of SDS are shown below (click to enlarge)….

Beamline development collaborations

…methods at MicroMAX available to the general user community and not only to experts in for example serial crystallography. The MicroMAX projects builds on a long history of close collaborations…

Supporting X-ray techniques

…below and you can see examples of XRD data collected at Balder. XRD Press the button below and you can see an example of XRF data collected at Balder XRF…

Joint ESS-MAX IV Science Colloquium: Giovanna Fragneto, ESS

examples from the study of the out-of-equilibrium fluctuations of phospholipid membranes induced by the active transmembrane protein bacteriorhodopsin [Mukhina et al., JCIS (2021)] and the study of the attractive interaction between fully charged lipid bilayers in…