What was & will be, 2019/2020 edition
We have arrived at the end of another year, which means we’ll take a look at how we fared (or rather, how we held on […]
“Better with Scattering” – now with a parallel course at the Diamond Light Source!
Just a quick head’s up before the holidays: as I mentioned in the previous blog post, there will be two X-ray scattering courses running in […]
Better with Scattering 2020: an introductory practical workshop to X-ray scattering
After this year’s successful trial, we’re gearing up for the second run in March 2020, here at the main BAM campus in Berlin. The four-day […]
Capillary gluing howto
There have been discussions on Twitter, even amongst experienced X-ray scientists, on how to glue a capillary in place (see the discussions following this tweet). […]
A PEEK flow-through capillary holder
Background subtraction and in-situ experiments are both made easier with the provision of a good flow-through cell. While we have a stainless steel cell with […]
Everything and the kitchen sink: Correcting X-ray data for everything – Lecture Video
Below, you can see a seminar on data corrections by me and Tim Snow from the Diamond Light source. The talk was given at the […]
Discussing Data Corrections at Dectris
On Monday the 9th of September, I’ll be heading to Dectris in Switzerland to give a public talk about the automatic and complete data corrections […]
All our Bases elsewhere
The blog post on standardized bases a few weeks ago led to a canSAS e-mail discussion, with everyone chipping in with their favorite bases. Here’s […]
All your base… (a universal sample platform, size M)
When the MAUS was built, one of the brighter things that was installed were three set of kinematic feet in the sample chamber. They were […]
All the materials in the world…
It’s been more than a month since the last post and you deserve better. So here’s something that might be interesting: it’s simply the list […]