BM26 - DUBBLE - Dutch-Belgian beamline

The DUBBLE project operates two beam lines. Mainly for researchers in the remit of the Dutch and Flemish research councils but 30% of the beam time is available for general ESRF users. The main techniques are time-resolved SAXS/WAXS and EXAFS. The latter technique can also be performed in a time-resolved mode.

The SAXS/WAXS beam line uses a large proportion of the time for soft condensed matter research although users of many other research fields, like geology, mineralogy, metallurgy, etc. are also regular visitors.

The EXAFS beam line is specialised in on-line catalysis experiments but this is definitely not the only type of experiments that are carried out here.  Several complementary techniques can be performed simultaneously with the EXAFS experiments.

News from DUBBLE

• We are proud to announce that the data collected at the DUBBLE beamlines yielded 600 publications. [May 2011]
• Henk Lekkerkerker (Utrecht University), long time DUBBLE user and staunch supporter of the DUBBLE project, reaches the age of 65. This is celebrated with a special edition of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 23, 2011. The editorial to this special edition you'll find below. [May 2011]
  A. V. Petukhov, W. Kegel and J. van Duijneveldt, Editorial: Colloidal suspensions, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 23 (2011), no. 19, 190201.
• A Pilatus 1M detector has been installed on the SAXS/WAXS beamline in January 2011.
  The device is now fully operational together with the existing Pilatus 300K-W.
  The funds for the Pilatus 1M have been obtained from the NWO through the Middelgroot program. [Feb 2011]
  
• One hundred PhD theses exploit data acquired at the DUBBLE beamlines. [Feb 2011]
  
  

Older news

• The Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Synchrotron Radiation in Polymer Science (SRPS 4) which was co-organized by DUBBLE, are available on line. [Dec 2010]
• We are proud to announce that the data collected at the DUBBLE beamlines yielded more than 500 publications. [Jun 2010]