ID02 - Time-Resolved Ultra Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering

Synopsis

ID02 beamline is a combined ultra small-angle and wide-angle scattering instrument. The microstructure and non-equilibrium dynamics of soft matter and related systems can be probed from sub-nanometer to micron scale, and down to sub-millisecond time range.

Disciplines

• Life Sciences
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Materials and Engineering
• Environmental Sciences
• Medicine

Applications

• Soft condensed matter
• Noncrystalline structural biology
• Interdisciplinary areas of soft matter, biology, and nanoscience

Techniques

• SAXS - small-angle X-ray scattering
• Time-resolved SAXS
• Time-resolved USAXS
• USA-XPCS - ultra-small-angle XPCS
• USAXS - ultra-small-angle X-ray scattering
• WAXS - wide-angle X-ray scattering

Sample environments

• Stopped-flow rapid mixing device
• Stress controlled rheometer
• Fast pressure-jump setup
• Mettler Toledo heating stage (HS82/HS1)
• Linkam heating stage: (THMS600/TMS94)
• Peltier-controlled flow-through capillary cell
• Magnetic field (0.1 mT to 1.5 T)
• Oven (capillaries and flat cells, 25-300°C)
• Peltier-controlled automatic sample changer

Detectors

• SAXS: Eiger2-4M
• WAXS: Rayonix LX170
• USAXS: FReLoN / Eiger2-4M
• XPCS: Eiger 500K

Technical details

Combined USAXS/SAXS/WAXS: ID02 offers time-resolved ultrasmall-, small- & wide- angle X-ray scattering (combined USAXS/SAXS/WAXS) capabilities. The setup uses a monochromatic, highly collimated, and intense beam in the pinhole configuration with sample-to-detector distance variable from 0.8 m to 31 m. The collimation is usually achieved using slits but the high resolution USAXS configuration may also employ a double crystal collimation scheme to reduce the horizontal beam divergence. Using 1 Å X-ray wavelength, the q range covered by the instrument is roughly 10^-3 nm^-1< q < 60 nm^-1. 

More detailed information about the scattering techniques, sample environments, and detectors is available at the beamline home page, which also lists recent publications illustrating the capababilities of the instrument.  An up-to-date reference for the beamline technical specifications and performance is Ref. [1]. Please note that the beamline web page is not a reference and the link is subject to change. For experiments carried out prior to 2020, the technical reference is still Ref. [2].

[1] T. Narayanan, M. Sztucki, T. Zinn, J. Kieffer, A. Homs-Puron, J. Gorini, P. Van Vaerenbergh and P. Boesecke, J. Appl. Cryst., 55, 98 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576721012693

[2] T. Narayanan, M. Sztucki, P. Van Vaerenbergh, J. Le´onardon, J. Gorini, L. Claustre, F. Sever, J. Morse and P. Boesecke, J. Appl. Cryst., 51, 1511 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576718012748.