Mohammad Vakili, Johan Bielecki, Juraj Knoška, Florian Otte, Huijong Han, Marco Kloos, Robin Schubert, Elisa Delmas, Grant Mills, Raphael de Wijn, Romain Letrun, Simon Dold, Richard Bean, Adam Round, Yoonhee Kim, Frederico A Lima, Katerina Dörner, Joana Valerio, Michael Heymann, Adrian P Mancuso, Joachim Schulz
{"title":"3D printed devices and infrastructure for liquid sample delivery at the European XFEL.","authors":"Mohammad Vakili, Johan Bielecki, Juraj Knoška, Florian Otte, Huijong Han, Marco Kloos, Robin Schubert, Elisa Delmas, Grant Mills, Raphael de Wijn, Romain Letrun, Simon Dold, Richard Bean, Adam Round, Yoonhee Kim, Frederico A Lima, Katerina Dörner, Joana Valerio, Michael Heymann, Adrian P Mancuso, Joachim Schulz","doi":"10.1107/S1600577521013370","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577521013370","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Sample Environment and Characterization (SEC) group of the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser (EuXFEL) develops sample delivery systems for the various scientific instruments, including systems for the injection of liquid samples that enable serial femtosecond X-ray crystallography (SFX) and single-particle imaging (SPI) experiments, among others. For rapid prototyping of various device types and materials, sub-micrometre precision 3D printers are used to address the specific experimental conditions of SFX and SPI by providing a large number of devices with reliable performance. This work presents the current pool of 3D printed liquid sample delivery devices, based on the two-photon polymerization (2PP) technique. These devices encompass gas dynamic virtual nozzles (GDVNs), mixing-GDVNs, high-viscosity extruders (HVEs) and electrospray conical capillary tips (CCTs) with highly reproducible geometric features that are suitable for time-resolved SFX and SPI experiments at XFEL facilities. Liquid sample injection setups and infrastructure on the Single Particles, Clusters, and Biomolecules and Serial Femtosecond Crystallography (SPB/SFX) instrument are described, this being the instrument which is designated for biological structure determination at the EuXFEL.</p>","PeriodicalId":17114,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":"29 1","pages":"331-346"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8900844/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43674839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arkady N Drobchik, Viktor V Nikitin, Mikhail I Fokin, Geser A Dugarov, Pavel D Shevchenko, Alex L Deriy, Andrey Yu Manakov, Konstantin E Kuper, Anton A Duchkov
{"title":"Environmental cell for in situ X-ray synchrotron micro-CT imaging with simultaneous acoustic measurements.","authors":"Arkady N Drobchik, Viktor V Nikitin, Mikhail I Fokin, Geser A Dugarov, Pavel D Shevchenko, Alex L Deriy, Andrey Yu Manakov, Konstantin E Kuper, Anton A Duchkov","doi":"10.1107/S1600577521013308","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577521013308","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Synchrotron radiation provides the necessary spatial and temporal resolution for non-invasive operando studies of dynamic processes under complex environmental conditions. Here a new environmental cell for simultaneous in situ dynamic X-ray imaging and measuring acoustic properties of geological samples is presented. The primary purpose of this cell is to study gas-hydrate formation in porous geo-materials and its influence on their acoustic properties. The cell is designed for cylindrical samples of 9 mm in diameter, confining and pore pressures up to 12 MPa, and temperatures from -20°C to room temperature. The cell is portable and can be easily assembled and operated at different X-ray sources. This cell enables a wide range of experiments studying physical/chemical processes in the Earth subsurface that change the mechanical properties of rocks (geochemical reactions, phase transitions, etc.).</p>","PeriodicalId":17114,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":"29 1","pages":"515-521"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8900851/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44294477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lin Yang, Jiliang Liu, Shirish Chodankar, Stephen Antonelli, Jonathan DiFabio
{"title":"Scanning structural mapping at the Life Science X-ray Scattering Beamline.","authors":"Lin Yang, Jiliang Liu, Shirish Chodankar, Stephen Antonelli, Jonathan DiFabio","doi":"10.1107/S1600577521013266","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577521013266","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This work describes the instrumentation and software for microbeam scattering and structural mapping at the Life Science X-ray Scattering (LiX) beamline at NSLS-II. Using a two-stage focusing scheme, an adjustable beam size between a few micrometres and a fraction of a millimetre is produced at the sample position. Scattering data at small and wide angles are collected simultaneously on multiple Pilatus detectors. A recent addition of an in-vacuum Pilatus 900k detector, with the detector modules arranged in a C-shaped configuration, has improved the azimuthal angle coverage in the wide-angle data. As an option, fluorescence data can be collected simultaneously. Fly scans have been implemented to minimize the time interval between scattering patterns and to avoid unnecessary radiation damage to the sample. For weakly scattering samples, an in-vacuum sample environment has been developed here to minimize background scattering. Data processing for these measurements is highly sample-specific. To establish a generalized data process workflow, first the data are reduced to reciprocal coordinates at the time of data collection. The users can then quantify features of their choosing from these intermediate data and construct structural maps. As examples, results from in-vacuum mapping of onion epidermal cell walls and 2D tomographic sectioning of an intact poplar stem are presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":17114,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":"29 1","pages":"540-548"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8900859/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47019826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna Romanchuk, Alexander Trigub, Tatiana Plakhova, Anastasiia Kuzenkova, Roman Svetogorov, Kristina Kvashnina, Stepan Kalmykov
{"title":"Effective coordination numbers from EXAFS: general approaches for lanthanide and actinide dioxides.","authors":"Anna Romanchuk, Alexander Trigub, Tatiana Plakhova, Anastasiia Kuzenkova, Roman Svetogorov, Kristina Kvashnina, Stepan Kalmykov","doi":"10.1107/S160057752101300X","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S160057752101300X","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) is a comprehensive and usable method for characterizing the structures of various materials, including radioactive and nuclear materials. Unceasing discussions about the interpretation of EXAFS results for actinide nanoparticles (NPs) or colloids were still present during the last decade. In this study, new experimental data for PuO<sub>2</sub> and CeO<sub>2</sub> NPs with different average sizes were compared with published data on AnO<sub>2</sub> NPs that highlight the best fit and interpretation of the structural data. In terms of the structure, PuO<sub>2</sub>, CeO<sub>2</sub>, ThO<sub>2</sub>, and UO<sub>2</sub> NPs exhibit similar behaviors. Only ThO<sub>2</sub> NPs have a more disordered and even partly amorphous structure, which results in EXAFS characteristics. The proposed new core-shell model for NPs with calculated effective coordination number perfectly fits the results of the variations in a metal-metal shell with a decrease in NP size.</p>","PeriodicalId":17114,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":"29 1","pages":"288-294"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8900841/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47594666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hiroki Yamada, Kengo Nakada, Michitaka Takemoto, Koji Ohara
{"title":"Fully automated measurement system for temperature-dependent X-ray total scattering at beamline BL04B2 at SPring-8.","authors":"Hiroki Yamada, Kengo Nakada, Michitaka Takemoto, Koji Ohara","doi":"10.1107/S1600577521013527","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577521013527","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Data-driven approaches in materials science demand the collection of large amounts of data on the target materials at synchrotron beamlines. To accurately gather suitable experimental data, it is essential to establish fully automated measurement systems to reduce the workload of the beamline staff. Moreover, the recent COVID-19 pandemic has further emphasized the necessity of automated and/or remote measurements at synchrotron beamlines. Here, the installation of a new sample changer combined with a high-temperature furnace and a fully automated alignment system on beamline BL04B2 at SPring-8 is reported. The system allows X-ray total scattering measurements of up to 21 samples at different temperatures (from room temperature to 1200°C) to be conducted without any human assistance.</p>","PeriodicalId":17114,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":"29 1","pages":"549-554"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8900857/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43125870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using diffraction losses of X-rays in a single crystal for determination of its lattice parameters as well as for monochromator calibration.","authors":"Nataliya Klimova, Irina Snigireva, Anatoly Snigirev, Oleksandr Yefanov","doi":"10.1107/S1600577521013667","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577521013667","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A way has been developed to measure the unit-cell parameters of a single crystal just from an energy scan with X-rays, even when the exact energy of the X-rays is not well defined due to an error in the pitch angle of the monochromator. The precision of this measurement reaches da/a ∼ 1 × 10<sup>-5</sup>. The method is based on the analysis of diffraction losses of the beam, transmitted through a single crystal (the so-called `glitch effect'). This method can be easily applied to any transmissive X-ray optical element made of single crystals (for example, X-ray lenses). The only requirements are the possibility to change the energy of the generated X-ray beam and some intensity monitor to measure the transmitted intensity. The method is agnostic to the error in the monochromator tuning and it can even be used for determination of the absolute pitch (or 2θ) angle of the monochromator. Applying the same method to a crystal with well known lattice parameters allows determination of the exact cell parameters of the monochromator at any energy.</p>","PeriodicalId":17114,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":"29 1","pages":"369-376"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8900831/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46953187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maksim A Yakovlev, Daniel J Vanselow, Mee Siing Ngu, Carolyn R Zaino, Spencer R Katz, Yifu Ding, Dula Parkinson, Steve Yuxin Wang, Khai Chung Ang, Patrick La Riviere, Keith C Cheng
{"title":"A wide-field micro-computed tomography detector: micron resolution at half-centimetre scale.","authors":"Maksim A Yakovlev, Daniel J Vanselow, Mee Siing Ngu, Carolyn R Zaino, Spencer R Katz, Yifu Ding, Dula Parkinson, Steve Yuxin Wang, Khai Chung Ang, Patrick La Riviere, Keith C Cheng","doi":"10.1107/S160057752101287X","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S160057752101287X","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ideal three-dimensional imaging of complex samples made up of micron-scale structures extending over mm to cm, such as biological tissues, requires both wide field of view and high resolution. For existing optics and detectors used for micro-CT (computed tomography) imaging, sub-micron pixel resolution can only be achieved for fields of view of <2 mm. This article presents a unique detector system with a 6 mm field-of-view image circle and 0.5 µm pixel size that can be used in micro-CT units utilizing both synchrotron and commercial X-ray sources. A resolution-test pattern with linear microstructures and whole adult Daphnia magna were imaged at beamline 8.3.2 of the Berkeley Advanced Light Source. Volumes of 10000 × 10000 × 7096 isotropic 0.5 µm voxels were reconstructed over a 5.0 mm × 3.5 mm field of view. Measurements in the projection domain confirmed a 0.90 µm measured spatial resolution that is largely Nyquist-limited. This unprecedented combination of field of view and resolution dramatically reduces the need for sectional scans and computational stitching for large samples, ultimately offering the means to elucidate changes in tissue and cellular morphology in the context of larger, whole, intact model organisms and specimens. This system is also anticipated to benefit micro-CT imaging in materials science, microelectronics, agricultural science and biomedical engineering.</p>","PeriodicalId":17114,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":"29 Pt 2","pages":"505-514"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8900834/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10296532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Igor Chaussavoine, Tatiana Isabet, Robin Lener, Pierre Montaville, Ramakrishna Vasireddi, Leonard M G Chavas
{"title":"Implementation of wedged-serial protein crystallography at PROXIMA-1.","authors":"Igor Chaussavoine, Tatiana Isabet, Robin Lener, Pierre Montaville, Ramakrishna Vasireddi, Leonard M G Chavas","doi":"10.1107/S1600577521013242","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577521013242","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An approach for serial crystallography experiments based on wedged-data collection is described. This is an alternative method for recording in situ X-ray diffraction data on crystalline samples efficiently loaded in an X-ray compatible microfluidic chip. Proper handling of the microfluidic chip places crystalline samples at geometrically known positions with respect to the focused X-ray interaction area for serial data collection of small wedges. The integration of this strategy takes advantage of the greatly modular sample environment available on the endstation, which allows access to both in situ and more classical cryo-crystallography with minimum time loss. The method represents another optional data collection approach that adds up to the already large set of methods made available to users. Coupled with the advances in processing serial crystallography data, the wedged-data collection strategy proves highly efficient in minimizing the amount of required sample crystals for recording a complete dataset. From the advances in microfluidic technology presented here, high-throughput room-temperature crystallography experiments may become routine and should be easily extended to industrial use.</p>","PeriodicalId":17114,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":"29 1","pages":"439-446"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8900848/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49244136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kenneth C. Holmes (1934–2021)","authors":"J. Wray, Ilme Schlichting","doi":"10.1107/s1600577522002211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/s1600577522002211","url":null,"abstract":"Obituary for Kenneth C. Holmes","PeriodicalId":17114,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":"29 1","pages":"591 - 592"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47958121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Farla, S. Bhat, Stefan Sonntag, A. Chanyshev, Shuailing Ma, T. Ishii, Zhaodong Liu, A. Néri, N. Nishiyama, Guilherme Abreu Faria, T. Wroblewski, H. Schulte-schrepping, W. Drube, O. Seeck, T. Katsura
{"title":"Extreme conditions research using the large-volume press at the P61B endstation, PETRA III","authors":"R. Farla, S. Bhat, Stefan Sonntag, A. Chanyshev, Shuailing Ma, T. Ishii, Zhaodong Liu, A. Néri, N. Nishiyama, Guilherme Abreu Faria, T. Wroblewski, H. Schulte-schrepping, W. Drube, O. Seeck, T. Katsura","doi":"10.1107/S1600577522001047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577522001047","url":null,"abstract":"The operation of the P61B endstation large-volume press and optics of P61 are reviewed. The instrumentation at P61B, including the large-volume press, detection systems and data acquisition for in situ high-pressure experiments are described.","PeriodicalId":17114,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":"29 1","pages":"409 - 423"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46593048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}