Sustainability measures, when applied intelligently, bolster societal productivity and deliver tangible improvements to the natural environment. Some argue that world economies cannot survive the impacts of business as usual in terms of pollution and high energy demands. In Lund, sustainability in work and life is a consistent aim, and in the most constructive way with COOL DH—the build project for the world’s largest low temperature district heating grid—nearing completion.
Scientists succeed in soaking protein guests into host crystals – a major step towards solving guest structures
A group of researchers have successfully soaked proteins into large protein crystals, marking a hitherto never reported achievement. The X-ray diffraction data, which were collected on MAX IV’s BioMAX beamline, indicate that the guest proteins could follow at least some of the hosts’ structures signifying a so far unparalleled step towards using crystallographic methods to solve guest protein structures. Such insights could pave the way for major advances in biotechnology, material science, and structural studies.
New food-focused theme for LINXS collaboration
LINXS and will run from August 2021 to June 2024. It gathers a range of national and international researchers and industry representatives within five working groups.
Disruptive solar cell company uses synchrotron X-rays to study radical product optimisation
Linköping University scientist Xianjie Liu in the control room at HIPPIE beamline. Credit: MAX IV Laboratory
MAX IV and ESS webinar on drug discovery and development
Would you like to know how SciLifeLab, MAX IV and ESS can contribute to drug discovery and development? Participate in the joint webinar organized by InfraLife together with partner organisation Lif on November 12, 2021. During the webinar SciLifeLab, MAX IV and ESS – the three large-scale research infrastructures will provide information on their capabilities in advanced technologies
Unveiling the properties of a versatile 2D material for energy storage and production applications
Researchers from Linköping University and MAX IV have determined the detailed surface atomic arrangement of inherently formed termination species in an important class of two-dimensional materials known as MXene. The results have implications for the use of the material in energy storage and production applications.
Zigzag graphene nanoribbons’ surface state hints at spin-polarized channels’ potential practical applications
An international team of researchers confirmed that epitaxial zigzag graphene nanoribbons grown on mesa-structured silicon carbide form protected spin-polarized transport channels at room temperature with very weak spin–orbit interaction. They discovered that while the zigzag graphene nanoribbon monolayer sank almost completely into a silicon carbide facet, its lower edge dissolved and mixed with the silicon
Aymeric Robert appointed Physical Sciences Director at MAX IV
Aymeric comes to MAX IV from the Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, where he was the deputy division director for the Science and R&D Division for four years.
Scientists detect key structures responsible for coupling process in sugar symporters
Researchers from Aarhus University achieved breakthrough insights about the coupling process that allows active sugar transport in plants aided by MAX IV’s BioMAX beamline.
Dear user community: CoSAXS beamline is performance ready
A successful, first rigorous test of CoSAXS, the Small-Angle X-ray Scattering beamline at MAX IV has now completed. A collaboration of scientists from NanoMAX, Balder, and CoSAXS beamlines demonstrated the accuracy, capabilities, and most especially, coherence properties of the instrument. The work marks the first experimental measurements for coherence in a SAXS beamline at a fourth generation synchrotron.