Paper highlight: Deconstructing donuts
[ed: You may have noticed site outages with increasing frequency. The good people at my alma mater of stack.nl, where this site is hosted, are […]
Instrument funding application success… What to do now?
For years, I have been trying to get a reasonable amount of money for an instrument. Last month, I was informed that this has been […]
Poking holes in perfection: the need for flatfield correction on a Mythen detector
Dr. Albrecht Petzold found and experimenting with this particular issue on his instrument: it looks like the Dectris Mythen detector signal can be cleaned up […]
Post gap: Scattering with Neutrons
Today, I’ve started an experiment doing SANS at D33 (ILL, France). I had planned to prepare a post for today, but it got snowed under […]
Paper highlight: Putting the pressure on proteins
Right as we were in the middle of moving last year, I helped out with the data processing of an interesting experiment (see here and […]
Video: aligning the SAXSess
We recorded a video for the alignment of the Anton Paar SAXSess instrument. This may be of use to some of you, although I will […]
Coping with the EU nanomaterial definition
[this is an excerpt from the talk I gave at TechConnect] Recently, the European Union has defined what they consider to be a nanomaterial: “A […]
TechConnect 2016
I am at the TechConnect 2016 conference right now, in spotless, shiny National Harbor, MD. Today, I’ll be giving a talk entitled: “Coping with the […]
Round Robin: precision of SAXS
We left off this issue a few weeks ago after discussing the variations between the datasets. However, we did not evaluate how variations in the […]
What does rebinning do?
Rebinning is an easy way to reduce the size of your datasets. But does it affect your results?