…the size and structural properties of thermoresponsive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) microgels presenting different degrees of crosslinking as function of the temperature. “Our study presents a detailed characterisation of thermoresponsive microgels, primarily…
…“tapping”. We strive for routinely available atomic resolution in the STM (conventional/dynamic), atomic resolution in ncAFM is not guaranteed. For details of the preparation chamber, the microscope, sampleholders and the…
…Carbone “New microscopy tools can provide not only sharper images but allow completely new ways of studying extremely complex materials, improving our understanding of the world around,” said Dina Carbone,…
MicroMAX combines three important aspects of structure determination: structures from macromolecules that can only be crystallised in the form of microcrystals, room temperature structures, and time resolved structures down to…
Essentials A sample characterization lab featuring a Hitachi FlexSEM 1000 ii and two optical microscopes is available for all users of MAX IV Laboratory. It is located at NanoMAX beamline,…
…APXPS’ relatively slow-paced spectrum recording capacities have limited its effectiveness as a tool to examine the dynamic changes of catalyst structure and composition that occur at sub-second time scales in…
…The committee commended the MAX IV staff for their technical and scientific achievements during 2022. They noted that: ‘The committee is deeply impressed by the profoundness and pace of the…
…area is not visible to sftp Log in to the sftp server from a Linux client From Linux command line, simply type sftp ‘maxiv_user_name’@sftp.maxiv.lu.se on the command line, where ‘maxiv_user_name’…
A part of Support labs: Microscopy infrastructure, standalone tunneling microscope (VT UHV XA STM from ScientaOmicron) at MAX IV allows characterizing the samples with scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), spectroscopy (STS),…
The analysis chamber hosts a VT XA STM (ScientaOmicron). The microscope has recently (2019) been upgraded so that non-contact AFM via QPlus sensors became possible. Most of our users run…