What was and will be, 2018/2019 edition
Welcome to the last day of 2018, for some already crossing over into 2019. Let’s take a look at what has and has not been […]
Steeper than steep: a slope beyond Porod
An advance publication by Arda Yildirim, one of the Ph.D. students at BAM, has come out this week. For us, this is a pretty momentous […]
… and we’re back on the air
After a few evenings of messing around trying to get my backup back online, LookingAtNothing is finally back. The old university servers had been taken […]
The traveling salesman.
[Ed: Due to the impeding end of the hosting organization, there will be some changes in the place where this site is run. I’ll have […]
In need of good SAXS? You can now collaborate with us (like a mini-“large facility”)!
If you are in need of good small- or wide-angle X-ray scattering insights to further your projects, I am happy to say that we can […]
Accelerated learning and (MAUS) development through collaborations
[update 7th of September: intensity units on the graph have been corrected] Synchrotron staff have known for years, but collaborations really drive progress. Since first […]
SAXS and USAXS, and smearing in McSAS
We got some initial results of the sequential SAXS/USAXS experiments we did at Diamond*I22 earlier this year, measuring one of Zoë Schnepp‘s carbon catalysts. Unique […]
Throwing uncertainties into the bin
With our new machine, we now have overlapping datasets recorded over several Q-ranges. Ideally, we’d be merging or “binning” these datasets into a beautiful long […]
Handy sheet for calculating SAXS detection limits
When researchers ask if we can measure their samples, the usual, unsatisfying answer is: “It depends…”. That’s because the detectablity of their dispersed scatterers depends […]
Detectors for good SAXS
A few questions have come up via the blog asking what kind of detector would be helpful for getting good SAXS measurements. Having worked with […]