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December 2024 ESRFnews
USER CORNER
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15 January 2025 Submission deadline for Long Term
proposals and new access mode HUBs
starting from 2025/II
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10–12 February 2025 Onsite User Meeting (deadline for
registration: 19 January 2025)
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1 March – 1 August 2025
Scheduling period 2025/I
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3 March 2025 Submission deadline for standard and
BAG proposals for 2025/II
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9 March 2025 Experiment report submission deadline
for experiments done in 2024/II
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.
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A new method of utilising a double crystal
deflector (DCD) for X-ray reflectivity
measurements on liquid surfaces has
been developed allowing a threefold
increase of scattering vectors range using
a standard DCD It gives new opportunities
to study liquid surfaces and interfaces
including surface layering of liquid metals
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Recent software upgrades
have significantly increased
the throughput for tilted single
particle experiments and
lacey grids
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The structure determination of
important protein drug targets
at ambient temperatures is
particularly challenging. Now, a
new in situ serial crystallography
method (iSX) developed on
the beamline by EMBL and
ESRF scientists enables these
experiments using microcrystals,
as demonstrated by the structure
determination of autotaxin at
room temperature.
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A new time-resolved X-ray induced
optical luminescence (XEOL) set-up
is available. A streak camera
collects in a single image the time
decay and the spectral emission
(200–850 nm) of the photo-
generated carriers. Recombination
dynamics as fast as a few tens of
picoseconds can be captured.
Various materials can be probed to
reveal how recombination
dynamics are related to local
composition, structure and defects
(e.g. Adv. Sci. 10 2205304).
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Users are regularly welcomed to the X-ray nanoscope, for nano-
XRF 2D mapping and nano-XAS (2–10 keV). The first happy user
groups have brought a diverse range of samples, including
neurons, historical lustered ceramics, Toxoplasma gondii
parasites and zebrafish embryos. The objective of these
investigations is to identify and locate metals (typically under
different speciations) in complex and heterogeneous matrices,
at either room or cryogenic temperatures.
Publications and proposals
The proper documentation of publications based on results obtained at the ESRF is an
essential measure of our scientific productivity and is used during evaluations of both
your work and ours
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ESRF publications must be linked when relevant to the proposal IDs and
beamlines used to take the data In ESRF proposals and reports the publications that
appear will rely on this information and on each user importing them from our Library
database into their User Portal My Publications list
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Your My Publications list should be updated for the past four years and the
publications should be linked to their proposal IDs and beamlines For details see
esrffrMyPublications
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Given the distinct features of this
new beamline (cold-FEG, Fringe-
free imaging and Selectris X
filter), ESRF users are advised to
contact cryo-em@esrf.fr at least
3 months in advance for projects
requiring these capabilities.
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The newly built nuclear resonance
beamline is now in full operation.
User experiments have been carried
out using the flagship instruments,
serving users with spatial resolution
down to 500 nm and energy
resolution down to 100 μeV.
New access modes
Users are encouraged to explore the ESRFs new
access modes which are designed to maximise
beamtime andor address important societal
topics See esrffrCommunityAccess