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Cumulative beam intensity in the 15 pixels of each direct beam profile (vertical axis) as a function of the generator warmup time (horizontal axis).

Does it matter, part 7: Generator warm-up

2016-01-19 Brian Pauw 2

Many of my mentors have insisted that the X-ray generator needs some time to stabilize after setting the generator voltage and current. The given waiting […]

Hatchling orange ghost morph ball python. CC-licensed image from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orange_Ghost_%28Hypomelanistic%29_Ball_Python.jpg

Setting up a Python development environment on Mac OS X

2016-01-12 Brian Pauw 4

Right before the Christmas holiday, my new Mac arrived at work. This computer will be used mainly as a test and development environment for the […]

Konstnärsfest på Skagen - Peder Severin Krøyer (1888). Public domain image from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hipp_hipp_hurra!_Konstn%C3%A4rsfest_p%C3%A5_Skagen_-_Peder_Severin_Kr%C3%B8yer.jpg

It is the year that will be (2016 edition)

2016-01-05 Brian Pauw 1

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to 2016! This year is bound to bring much goodness with it, so let’s see what we can do:

2015: The year we moved our house (again). Image in public domain, source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adas_Israel_Synagogue_-_moving_day.jpg

It was the year that was (2015 edition)

2015-12-29 Brian Pauw 3

The year seems to have sped by at an amazing rate. Fortunately, the record shows that progress has been made this year. Indeed, we started […]

Apparent transmission factor as a function of generator acceleration voltage.

On troubles in nanoparticle-land and transmission factors

2015-12-22 Brian Pauw 2

For this week, I have two short messages on two topics: the nanoparticle round-robin and the SAXSess transmission factor troubles.

Redrawing... Image out of copyright, source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Architect.png

Ultra-SAXS version 3: now with added synchrotron-i-ness

2015-12-08 Brian Pauw 1

The last two weeks, I have been visiting Diamond and ESRF, to talk to Very Interesting People over there. The end result: a collaboration to […]

Silver nanoparticle candidate reference material

Thou shalt be judged… Round-robin request.

2015-12-01 Brian Pauw 2

As some of you will know, we are currently running a SAXS round-robin experiment, with a bit over ten labs participating at the moment. The […]

The reconstructed tooth segment of Schaff et al.. Reproduced with permission from http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature16060, Copyright © 2015, Rights Managed by Nature Publishing Group

SAXS in six dimensions

2015-11-24 Brian Pauw 1

[Quick note: I am also giving a talk at ESRF next week, on the 3rd of December, in the Science Building Seminar Room 035 at […]

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Talk at Diamond next week Thursday

2015-11-17 Brian Pauw 0

Next week Thursday I will be giving a talk at Diamond, courtesy of Nick Terrill, entitled: “Everything SAXS: Making Sense of the Soup”. This will […]

Preparation of the samples at Diamond.

Paper highlight: From little things, carbides grow.

2015-11-10 Brian Pauw 0

Zoë Schnepp wrote a recent paper, based on the experiments we did at Diamond (these ones). These experiments revealed some amazing XRD data, giving insight […]

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