Four new beamlines get go ahead at the ESRF, opening new frontiers in X-ray science

[Judi Lynn]

June 28, 2017



Aerial view of the European Synchrotron, ESRF, Grenoble, France. Credit: ESRF/Jocelyn Chavy



The ESRF Council, representing the 22 partner nations of the ESRF, gave the green light for the construction and commissioning of four new beamlines from 2018-2022. The beamlines are designed to exploit the enhanced performance of the first of a new generation of synchrotron, the Extremely Brilliant source (EBS), which is being built at the ESRF.

The four new beamlines will underpin research addressing the major challenges facing our society, including defining the next generation of biomaterials and new sustainable materials, developing new drugs, unravelling the complex mechanisms of living organisms and reconstructing historical artefacts and fossils in 3D, which will open new windows into the origins of humanity.

The 4 ESRF-EBS flagship beamlines:

A beamline for Serial Macromolecular Crystallography

Serial crystallography is emerging as a unique technique to solve structures of important classes of proteins available only in sub-micron crystals, whilst managing radiation damage. This EBS beamline will provide new perspectives for life sciences by providing a unique facility worldwide for its flux-density and stability. Examples of research applications: fundamental problems such as enzyme kinetics; drug effects into target proteins; determinants neutralizing human antibodies against viruses.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-beamlines-esrf-frontiers-x-ray-science.html#jCp

[pangaia]

1. But will this help us understand the double invertable counterpoint

in the finale of Mozart's Sym # 41?



Thanks for posting....

[lastlib]

2. Another shining example of American leadership in scientific research under Repuglikans.....

( . in case anybody needs it.)