BM26B

Synopsis

This beamline is specialised in time-resolved small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering and is especially equipped to handle complicated sample environments

Disciplines

• Chemistry
• Materials and Engineering
• Physics
• Environmental Sciences
• Cultural Heritage
• Life Sciences

Applications

• None

Techniques

• SAXS - small-angle X-ray scattering
• WAXS - wide-angle X-ray scattering

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.