Dynamic protein-nucleic acid complexes are central to molecular biology. Despite their biological importance, few methods exist to monitor these complexes as they assemble, dissociate or function... more »
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High-energy (HE) x-ray diffraction (energies 30 keV and above) have long been a mainstay at CHESS, supporting many user groups on a wide variety of in-house developed techniques. Pressure to grow the HE program is now coming from research groups in engineering, chemists... more »
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Ithaca Generator (IG) partnered with Xraise, the outreach program at the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education, to host a week-long GERLS Camp for middle school girls... more »
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Not many summer students can say they have configured hutches, built beamlines, and spent all night in the lab running experiments and collecting data. But for Gabrielle Long and Yuexia "Luna" Lin, two research students working at CHESS this summer... more »
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Lynden Archer, a longtime CHESS user in the area of nanoparticle materials, has just been honored with the 2014 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum (NSEF) Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE)... more »
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Physics graduate student Siddharth Karkare is the first author on a recent Physical Review Letters publication reporting new interdisciplinary research on "Ultrabright and Ultrafast III-V Semiconductor Photocathodes" that could dramatically improve accelerator performance... more »
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One of the most ambitious is the installation of two new undulators for the upcoming Fall 2014 run, which means removal of the 50-pole A line/G line Wiggler built by Ken Finkelstein in 1999... more »
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