Health and life sciences

…content and distribution with sub-cellular resolution of various systems, for example brain tissue in connection with Alzeimer’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis and surgery research, and diabetes research on pancreatic islets. Spectroscopy…

Energy and battery

…of improved production processes that can better meet the demands of tomorrow’s market.  Examples of research topics at MAX IV Charge transport mechanisms in materials Temperature-driven reaction mechanisms Ageing processes…

Access modes

…may be limited based on demand. Examples of available setups: Autoloader for liquid samples, BioSAXS (including SEC-SAXS), Gel/Solid samples, Disposable capillaries, Refillable capillaries. The choice of sample environment will depend…

Staff and organisation

…for the beamlines. We also support the installation, commissioning and operation of commercially supplied detectors, both position measuring and energy resolving, for example including mega pixel photon counting detectors, working…

Well attended 35th User Meeting with a forward look

…by the Director General of the French Synchrotron SOLEIL, Jean Daillant, on European collaboration and the upcoming SOLEIL II upgrade. Alfa Laval and their Lund University partners gave examples of…

Measure energy and power quality

…disturbances occur at everything from planned to unplanned events on the power and transmission network. Examples of causes of power quality problems are; connections in the power and transmission network,…

Science at FemtoMAX

…-Ultrafast phase-transitions -Ultrafast bio-chemical reactions Examples of experiments that is performed at the beamline includes ultrafast transitions from ordered to disordered states of matter, optically programmable materials, and protein crystallography….

COOL sustainability more than a pipe dream in Lund

…MAX IV continues to be fed to the larger grid as well. This connection is important, for example, for MAX IV’s bi-annual system shutdown for scheduled maintenance. Heat delivery to…

A record year for research at MAX IV

…sustainable future and support the development of new and emerging technologies. Examples of research published in 2023 include: The optimisation of catalysts for cleaner air production The generation of sustainable…

A cloudy route for shipping in the Arctic

…combustion in, for example, black carbon, soot or sulphates. Shippers meet the compliancy standard today with use of sulphur removing devices, namely scrubbers, or fuel with low sulphur content (FSC)….