forthcoming articles

A portable and compact nanofocusing system was developed for X-ray free-electron lasers with the ability to generate Zn Kα lasers with the world's highest photon energies on amplified spontaneous emission.

The preliminary design of a pulse monochromator is presented for monochromatization and time delay compensation at Shenzhen Superconducting Soft X-ray Free Electron Laser (S³FEL).

We developed advanced software for X-ray spectroscopy imaging, enabling precise and rapid XANES imaging analysis, and demonstrated its effectiveness by mapping the Ni oxidation states in lithium-ion battery cathodes, thereby revealing their heterogeneity.

This article provides details on the current status of the experimental techniques available at the ESRF–EBS and ILL research infrastructures. It describes major contributions made by the EMBL, ESRF, ILL and IBS to the structural biology field and includes future prospects at the EPN campus

The use of Noise2Inverse in low-dose in situ synchrotron micro-computed tomography experiments shows high feasibility and promise for biological tissues such as bone. With appropriate scanning parameters and experimental setup, features in bone such as lacunae volume and shape as well as mineralization can be reasonably preserved while reducing radiation dose by two to three times.

A constant-imaging-distance fixed-included-angle grating monochromator has been designed and constructed at the X-ray test beamline at Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility to expand the covered energy range of the beamline.

Described here is the first implementation of an operando transmission X-ray microscopy to study laser melting at X-ray free-electron lasers. The instrument uses a novel pump–probe scheme to image down to 940 nm spatial resolution with integration times <100 fs and up to 0.48 GHz frame rates to study the rapid dynamics and small-scale features in laser additive manufacturing.

The BM02/D2AM beamline at the ESRF is shown to be suitable for performing X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy experiments with a flux that prevents samples' irradiation effects, features particularly suitable for polymer-based materials.

The Structural Biology Research Center at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization has developed advanced systems for macromolecular crystallography, including an automated crystallization screening system, a long-wavelength crystallography beamline and an automated data-collection system.

A new X-ray spectrometer for high photon energies based on Laue analyzer crystals is presented. Its performance in terms of energy resolution and efficiency is discussed. Niobium Kα and Kβ emission data collected with this Laue spectrometer are given.

The history, current state and future directions of the three MX beamlines BL14.1, BL14.2 and BL14.3 of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin at the BESSY II electron storage ring are described.