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Spending money on Bonse Hart Bling-Bling

2014-11-10 Brian Pauw 2

[ed1: Progress on the Everything SAXS book has been good: a framework is now in place with chapters, the revision ID on the title page […]

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SAXS Instrument runthrough

Video: The bits of a SAXS machine

2014-04-28 Brian Pauw 0

This week, I decided it’s time for another short video. Since I have never actually shown a SAXS machine, I thought it’d be of interest […]

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A sample (blue) and background (green) measured on the slightly optimised Bonse Hart system. Scale is "symlog", meaning it is linear between 10e-3 and -10e-3 (hence the strange bump).

Tweaking the Ultra-SAXS machine

2014-01-20 Brian 2

It has been a very quiet four months (since this post) on the Bonse Hart front, as the generator was out of order (yes, again, […]

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The Bonse Hart instrument works!

2013-08-12 Brian 2

Ok, so let’s start with the disclaimer: very initial results (fresh off the instrument, hence the delay), and the primary beam intensity is still very, […]

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Taking the Bonse Hart instrument apart again…

2013-07-29 Brian 0

After a week trying to get a good reflection to come through the crystal — and failing —, it is time to take it apart, […]

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Aligning the Bonse Hart crystal

2013-07-22 Brian 0

For the last two weeks, I have had the X-ray generator up and running. After installation of an old cooling system there were some troubles […]

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NIM-duino as ersatz counter-ratemeter (counts up to ~50000 counts per second)

2013-06-17 Brian 1

The Bonse Hart USAXS instrument is coming along nicely, and the expectation is that we can start using X-rays pretty soon. One missing element in […]

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Paper highlight, Madrid meeting and Detector electronics

2013-05-13 Brian 0

A few things came up in the last two weeks which may be of interest. Firstly, I will be in Madrid for a magnesium alloys […]

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Build Your Own Instrument update: Making it cool

2013-04-15 Brian 0

Some of you have asked about the current state of the Bonse-Hart USAXS instrument I have been building (reported here). Well, it has seen some […]

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Paper highlights: Prior art and detector trouble

2013-02-04 Brian 0

Hello everyone, and welcome to the remaining 90% of 2013 (as of February 4), surely you’ve made good use of the first 10! I’ve been […]

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Recent open-access publications

  • * [2013] Everything SAXS: small-angle scattering pattern collection and correction.
  • * [2013] Improvements and considerations for size distribution retrieval from small-angle scattering data by Monte Carlo methods.
  • * [2014] Critical Assessment of the Evidence for Striped Nanoparticles
  • * [2015] McSAS : software for the retrieval of model parameter distributions from scattering patterns

Blogroll

  • Ben Goldacre's Bad Science
  • Dr. Hollamby's website
  • Dy/dan about maths teaching
  • Ferniglab Blog
  • Julian Stirling
  • Manfred Kriechbaum's useful SAS link page
  • Nico Adams
  • Presentation zen
  • Rapha-z-lab
  • Retraction Watch
  • Schnepp Group weblog
  • Small-angle scattering Portal
  • Suzie Sheehy

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