March 2023 ESRFnews
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1 March – 1 August 2023 Scheduling period 2023/I
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27–28 April 2023 Beamtime allocation panel
meetings
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29 August 2023 – 29 February 2024 Scheduling period 2023/II
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11 September 2023 Submission deadline for standard
and BAG proposals for 2024/I
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14 September 2023 Experiment report submission
deadline for experiments from
2023/I
Users with questions, comments and
ideas are welcome to contact the User
Organisation Committee (UOC) at any
time. Representatives of each scientific
community and their contact details
can be found at www.esrf.eu/UOC. ESRF
contacts: www.esrf.eu/Contacts.
KEY CONTACTS DATES FOR THE DIARY
USER CORNER
NEWS FROM THE BEAMLINES
Right: Guillaume Morard, chair of the UOC.
ID01
BM01
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BM14
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BM25
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ID30B
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CM01
HPLF
BM18
ID14
CM01
The 5th annual cryo-EM
workshop on sample preparation
for single-particle imaging will
take place on 23–25 May (see
Events, p26). Meanwhile, users
are reminded of the Solution-
tO-Structure (SOS) pipeline that
takes liquid samples (or vitrified
grids) and outputs high-end Krios
cryo-EM data. See esrf.fr/CM01.
ID21
The refurbishment is progressing well.
The new X-ray nanoscope has been
installed and is being assembled.
We hope it will be available to users
for 2023-II. It will be dedicated to 2D
nano X-ray fluorescence mapping and
nano X-ray absorption spectroscopy.
ID19
Highspeed Xray imaging can
now be used to study battery
abuse failure of current and
emerging technologies routinely
thanks to a new test chamber
left installed at ID19 This will
help to improve the safety of
battery modules and cells See
tinyurlcomID19batchamber
ID14ID18
The nuclearresonance beamline ID18 will continue user operations
until August this year before being transferred to its final location at
ID14 This upgraded nuclearresonance beamline is expected to
then start user operation in March 2024 providing improved beam
size beam stability and energy resolution The new experimental
hutches highly stable thermally and mechanically will host the
recently installed hard Xray spectrograph which improves the energy
resolution from
06 meV to
100 μeV and the new Xray nanoscope
which is expected to provide a submicron beam for hyperfine and
phonon spectroscopy
ID30B
During the last few months, a new set-up to record Raman spectra on macromolecular crystals
has been installed and commissioned. When using time- or dose-dependent spectra, with the
majority of complex protein vibrational modes unchanged, important insights into protein- or
ligand-specific modes, associated with e.g. an enzymatic reaction, can be observed (e.g.
reduction of S–S bonds due to radiation damage). Enquiries to see if your project can benefit
from Raman spectroscopy can be reviewed by emailing icos@esrf.fr. Recording offline Raman
spectra prior to experiment on ID30B using the icOS Lab is highly recommended.
ESRF Users Service
Desk Portal
A help desk ticket portal has
been set up to assist users who
need support or encounter
problems before, during or
after their beamtime. Go to
userhelpdeskesrffr
ID20
A new compact spectrometer for
medium-resolution resonant and
non-resonant X-ray emission spectro-
scopy in von Hamos geometry is
available and can be used at the same
time as the X-ray Raman scattering
spectrometer. Combination of both
techniques extends the possible
spectroscopic characterisation of
samples in particular for insitu
operando experiments
ID26
A new silicon drift detector and two XIA
FalconX digital signal processors have been
commissioned. These provide an additional
detection channel for fluorescence-detected
X-ray absorption spectroscopy with a
linear behaviour up to high count rates. The
detector is used in parallel with the hard
X-ray emission spectrometer.