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Space Crystals

Bycorie October 2, 2017

Recently, Marc helped a user run some crystals which the user had arranged to have grown in zero-gravity. Here are pictures of the crystal capillaries mounted at the beamline, and the raster grid used to locate crystals within a capillary.

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The Diode Beamstop is a finalist for the R&D100 Award
Bycorie August 1, 2016

The compact dynamic beamstop (formerly known as the diode beamstop) has been announced as a finalist for this years R&D100 award! Simon Morton and Diane Bryant are invited to the Awards Banquet in Washington DC later this year.

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BCSB Bowlers Back Again!
Byslortega January 24, 2020

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Where to put that Pilatus?
Bycorie December 19, 2015

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Back up and running
Bycorie April 3, 2017

We are back up from the long ALS shutdown, and the beamlines are in good shape. We completed a number of projects on the sector 5 beamlines, in particular, as well as performed maintenance on a number of systems: – Pilatus3 6M installed on 5.0.1. The install went well, and tests with x-rays show that…

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Beamline 8.2.1 just deposited its 1000th structure
Bycorie December 5, 2018

Congrats, beamline 8.2.1!

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Pin base warmer looking good
Bycorie February 27, 2017

We measured the temperature at the sample during warming of the pin base, and preliminary tests so far show that the heat is not transferred to the loop during two minutes of base warming. Tests are continuing now to determine how well the warmer removes ice and frost from the bases.

Images of a crystal in a loop before and after using the pin base warmer:

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