forthcoming articles

A fixed-target 3D printed mesh-holder optimized for sample handling for serial synchrotron crystallography was implemented. It allows rapid data collection from microcrystals. Data are analyzed and structures determined using a high-performance computing pipeline.

X-ray topography exerting super-Borrnann effect is realized using synchrotron radiation and a high-resolution CMOS camera.

In synchrotron radiation X-ray imaging, the spatial resolution under a fixed field-of-view is improved using the micro-scanning method.

The SASE3 soft X-ray beamline at the European XFEL is equipped with a grating monochromator. The design and current performance of the monochromator are discussed.

This paper proves the feasibility and demonstrates the performance of a novel conical single-crystal analyzer in a von Hámos geometry to follow two sets of Kα hard X-ray emission peaks simultaneously, which can be used as an additional feature at synchrotron beamlines but also with laboratory setups or plasma sources. The conical-analyzer-based spectrometer is studied both experimentally as well as with ray-tracing simulations to provide a broad overview and understanding.

A recent upgrade of key equipment of the BAMline widens its imaging capabilities: shorter scan acquisition times are now possible, in situ and operando studies can now be routinely performed, and different energy spectra can easily be set up.

An infrared free-electron laser was applied to dissociate amyloid fibrils of a peptide as a goal of the development of a novel therapeutic strategy for amyloidosis. Solid evidence for β-sheet to α-helix conversion in the peptide fibril by vibrational excitation of amide bonds was obtained by both experiment and molecular dynamics simulation.

A detailed presentation of the automatic data analysis pipelines for the BioSAXS beamline at the European synchrotron.

A method is introduced for representation of arbitrary crystals, numerical calculation treatment and ray-tracing simulation, and upgrading the tools in the OASYS suit; the upgraded tools are particularly helpful for very complicated crystals constituting charged atoms arranged in any crystalline structure and including isotropic or anisotropic temperature factors. The new open source software tools developed here are available for supporting accurate calculations in the design and optimization of new X-ray monochromators.

The improvement in As speciation resulting from As K-edge HERFD-XANES is evaluated in mine waste samples and synthetically generated mixtures of reference compounds.