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#weekendusers How do iron minerals behave in marine ecosystems altered by humans?
23-09-2016
Every day, human activity affects marine ecosystems by discharging waters from urban and agricultural areas. Dutch users investigate what role iron minerals play in the health of these ecosystems, using the X-rays of the Dutch-Belgian beamline...
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Tracking down the origin of mercury contamination in human hair
22-09-2016
Mercury is a potent neurotoxin present in our daily lives and our body can accumulate it over the years. Food consumption, such as fish and rice, is the most common source of mercury exposure. Mercury can be found in dental amalgams, compact...
A Passion for Science
20-09-2016
The ESRF/ILL International Student Summer Programme is helping students to take one step nearer to their dreams. Viktor Radermacher has blisters on his hands but a huge smile on his face. The blisters are from carrying the 8kg case containing...
#weekendusers Express experiments for better health
19-09-2016
Synchrotron sources are crucial for structural biology and research performed at the ESRF produces 40% of the protein structures submitted in Europe. This weekend, scientists from Barcelona spent 24 hours trying to unveil the structures of medically-...
Spotlight on science
Combining operando X-ray techniques to study lithium ion batteries
13-09-2016
Operando X-ray tomographic microscopy (SRXTM) and scanning X-ray diffraction (SXRD) have been combined for the first time to study dynamic processes in a lithium ion battery. This combination of techniques allowed the lithiation processes to...
Watching the birth of a nanocrystal superlattice
05-09-2016
Two-dimensional systems have recently emerged as very promising candidates for future electronic devices. An ordered 2D array of nanocrystals can be created by letting nanocrystals self-assemble and connect at a liquid surface. This new structure...
X-ray colour provides direct 3D information in crystallographic texture measurements
25-08-2016
Preferred crystal orientation (crystallographic texture) is a common phenomenon in many complex micro- and nanocrystalline materials of biological and synthetic origin. Conventionally, texture determination by XRD involves sample 2D diffraction...
Structural basis of an unusual carbocyclisation in nogalamycin biosynthesis
16-08-2016
The final steps in the biosynthesis of nogalamycin involve two atypical reactions, an epimerisation and a chemically challenging C–C-bond formation, which so far have been poorly understood. We show that these reactions are catalysed by two...
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Key dates
Proposal deadline:
10 September 2016
LTP deadline:
15 January 2017
Review committees:
27-28 October 2016
10 September 2016
LTP deadline:
15 January 2017
Review committees:
27-28 October 2016
Conferences
- Softwares for Optical Simulations (SOS) workshop 03-10-2016 09:00
- IWAA 2016 03-10-2016 09:00
- User Meeting 2017 06-02-2017 08:00
Seminars
- Iterative tomographic X-ray phase reconstruction - application to 3D bone imaging 28-09-2016 10:00
- Determining the microscopic structure of warm dense matter 29-09-2016 14:00