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June 2024 ESRFnews
USER CORNER
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27 August 2024 to 28 February 2025 Scheduling period 2024/II
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10 September 2024 (5pm CEST) Submission deadline for
standard and BAG proposals
for 2025/I.
Please note new time.
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14 September 2024
Experiment report submission
deadline for experiments from
2024/I
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24–25 October 2024 Beamtime allocation panel
meetings
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3–5 February 2025 (TBC) ESRF User Meeting
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
NEWS FROM THE BEAMLINES
Right: Guillaume Morard, chair of the UOC.
BM20 ROBL
A new grant funded by the
European Commission, “Novel
2D–3D Materials for Lanthanide
Recovery from Nuclear Waste”,
will drive the development and
implementation of a new in situ
methodology for lanthanides
recovery. With a value of €2.3m
over three years, the grant has
been made available to four
partners from Germany, Sweden,
France and Romania.
ID12
A versatile XMCD setup based on an 8 Tesla
superconducting magnet has been upgraded to allow
measurements at elevated temperatures from 300 K to 850 K
as well as a maximum heating rate of 25 Kmin thanks to a
new highvacuum amagnetic thermostat Funded by the
ANR through the project SHAMAN ANR16CE090019
and designed in collaboration with the ESRFs Sample
Environment Service this new option significantly widens the
range of magnetic materials that can be investigated eg
magnetostructural transitions in magnetocaloric materials
ID01
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ID15
CM01
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ID14
ID32
A compact X-ray spectrometer
(above) has been installed,
commissioned and exploited for first
user experiments. The spectrometer
is optimised for high-throughput
experiments in the energy range
4001600 eV It can be used together
with the superconducting magnet for
experiments in fields of up to 9 Tesla
and temperatures down to 4 K
ID23-1
A novel method for complex MX sample data
collection has been implemented. Using two
mesh X-ray scans at different angles, the
new software, “Dozorm2”, identifies regions
belonging to the same crystal in a multi-crystal
sample, optimising three-dimensional centering
and beam size for data collection. This double-
mesh approach is particularly useful for
experiments with rotation range restrictions,
such as those with crystallisation plates or
chips, enhancing the original “mesh and
collect” method’s capability with a fully
automated multi-crystals data collection.
ID26
Recent modifications of the
double crystal monochromator
mechanics have resulted in a
significantly more stable beam
position, and therefore a great
improvement of the EXAFS
data quality.
ID30A-3
An upgrade of the detector control unit has
considerably reduced the sample characterisation
time. The maximum achievable resolution has
now been extended from 1.5 Å to 1.17 Å thanks to
modifications of the experiment set-up.
BM07
On BM07FIP2 the old GROB sample changer handling three
SPINESC3 pucks 30 samples was replaced in January this year
with an ESRFEMBL FlexHCD sample changer handling
18 UniPucks 288 samples It is anticipated that in the future it will
also be able to handle five SPINESC3 pucks for specific experiments
such as lightsensitive samples or pressurised samples