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Your car gets hit by another vehicle, and the steel in its construction is deformed by the impact. The steel isn’t just designed to be strong enough to protect you. It also gets stronger because of the impact. It all has to do with the different arrangements that the atoms inside the steel can assume
image: (left) 3D volume rendering (iso-surface) of crystalline Si-star with Bragg-ptychography, (center), atomic displacement along the z direction. The color map shows strain (dimensionless) (right) SEM image of the same Si-star sample, for comparison. Credit: Dina Carbone To capture extraordinary nanoscale details in crystallography takes the powerful coherent flux of a 4th generation light source.
ForMAX is the 15th beamline to come online at MAX IV. A large part of the research to be conducted at the beamline will promote the development of new materials and speciality chemicals from renewable forest resources. ForMAX is funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and industrial partners through the Treesearch consortium. Half
MAX IV’s board has decided on Professor Olof Karis as acting director of MAX IV. His start date will be decided shortly and refers to a one year’s appointment. Olof Karis comes most recently from Uppsala University, where he has been head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy since 2015. He has a broad
Illustration of the virus SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of Covid-19. Credit: Pixabay An international collaboration of scientists identified four fragments that interact with the nsp10 protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus using the FragMAX platform and BioMAX beamline. The fragments could be used to develop inhibitors that supplant key enzymes activated by the protein—an application which
Diffraction pattern recorded during ptychographic scans using the Siemens star test sample. The large overall size of the signal on the detector indicates that even the smallest features of the sample contribute to the signal and can thus be reconstructed. Interference fringes (the separation between the intensity maxima and intensity minima) can clearly be seen,
How can more industrial companies make radical innovation and product optimisation through scientific discoveries? One important step is a better connection to intermediary companies. Welcome to Innovation Cohesion: A new approach to support industrial R&D, a public conference of the CAROTS project that will showcase the role of intermediary companies in strengthening ties between industry,
Northern Lights on Food was chosen as a new theme for LINXS and will run from August 2021 to June 2024. It gathers a range of national and international researchers and industry representatives within five working groups. MAX IV is a partner in LINXS – Lund Institute of Advanced Neutron and X-ray Science. LINXS
In a study conducted at beamline Bloch, the complete band structure of one-dimensional graphene nanoribbons was mapped for the first time using ARPES. The nanoribbons, grown on a substrate that is suitable for upscaling, have a width dependent bandgap important for device integration. The team of researchers from Germany, Sweden and Ireland recently published their
The chemical bonding in 2-dimensional (2D) MXene material Ti3C2Tx and its precursor Ti3AlC2 was studied at beamline Balder. The relatively newly discovered MXene materials have potential applications from batteries to electronics. A team from Linköping performed the first experiment at Balder in 2019, and the results are now published in Physical Review Research. 2-dimensional (2D)