Synopsis
This beamline is specialised in time-resolved small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering and is especially equipped to handle complicated sample environments
Status:
open
Disciplines
- Chemistry
- Materials and Engineering
- Physics
- Environmental Sciences
- Cultural Heritage
- Life Sciences
Applications
Techniques
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SAXS - small-angle X-ray scattering
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WAXS - wide-angle X-ray scattering
Beam size
- Minimum (H x V) : 10.0
x 10.0
µm²
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Maximum (H x V) : 300.0
x 300.0
µm²
Sample environments
- Several furnaces
- High magnetic fields with room-temperature bore
- Various shear devices
- Various deformation devices
- Differential scanning calorimetry
- Stop-flow cell
Detectors
- X-ray scattering detectors
Technical details
BM26B is a multipurpose SAXS/WAXS beamline which covers many research areas. Infrastructure is available to handle complicated and large sample environments.
[1] M. Borsboom et al., The Dutch-Belgian beamline at the ESRF, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 5 (1998), 518-520. [2] W. Bras et al., Recent experiments on a combined small-angle/wide-angle X-ray scattering beam line at the ESRF, Journal of Applied Crystallography 36 (2003), 791-794. [3] S. Nikitenko et al., Implementation of a combined SAXS/WAXS/QuEXAFS set-up for time-resolved in situ experiments, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 15 (2008), 632-640.