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  APS Home Page
Researchers using the Argonne Advanced Photon Source have gained important new insights into this phenomenon.
Researchers using the Advanced Photon Source and Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne reveal, in the cover story of the 24 September 2007 issue of Applied Physics Letters, new insights into the behavior of multilayer ring structures for memories.
Scientists using the Argonne Advanced Photon Source have obtained a detailed “map” that pinpoints the location of every atom in a 450-million-year-old resurrected protein, offering the first opportunity to see the precise mechanisms by which evolution molded a tiny molecular machine at the atomic level.
www.aps.anl.gov   (404 words)

  
  ASI Synchrotron Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The position of the edge in the XAS energy spectrum is characteristic of both the element absorbing the X-ray photons and of the energy level of the orbital.
Brightness is defined as the number of photons per second in a narrow energy bandwidth and in a defined unit of solid angle in the horizontal and vertical directions.
High Pressure Collaborative Access Team: a CAT at the APS that will advance high-pressure science by allowing new types of experiments to be performed, including complete crystallographic studies of materials at multimegabar pressures; measurements of the dynamics of electrons, atoms, and nuclei; and detailed studies of complex materials as functions of pressure, temperature, and time.
alpha.asi.ualberta.com /Glossary/GlossaryTerms.htm   (7521 words)

  
 Canadian Light Source Inc.
The Canadian Light Source is committed to scientific and technical excellence in all its endeavors.
Canadian scientists on CLS beamline teams are presently developing new synchrotron radiation techniques, or improving the performance of mature techniques, at U.S. facilities such as the Canadian Synchrotron Radiation Facility (CSRF) at the Aladdin synchrotron at the University of Wisconsin, the Advanced Photon Source (APS) in Chicago, or the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Berkeley.
There is a major effort worldwide to sequence the complete genome of whole organisms, and to study the structure and function of all the proteins produced by those genes (so-called structural genomics or structural proteomics).
www.lightsource.ca /science   (1411 words)

  
 ER News - May/June 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: )
On May 1, scientists and engineers at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source (APS) celebrated the beginning of a new era in x-ray research with the dedication of the APS facility by Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary.
Advances in several fields are expected from the fundamental materials science and biological research to be conducted at the APS: biotechnology, polymer and advanced materials, medical diagnostics, digital imaging techniques, semiconductor materials, and microelectronic circuits.
The Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory provides the most brilliant source of x-rays for research in the world.
www.pnl.gov /er_news/06_96/photon.htm   (542 words)

  
 Argonne Research Divisons
Advanced Photon Source — The Advanced Photon Source provides the nation's most intense beams of X-rays for forefront basic and applied research in such fields as materials science, biology, physics, chemistry and the environmental, geophysical and planetary sciences.
The goals are threefold: advancing biology, advancing the intersection of computing and biology, and advancing all activities involving computation.
Intense Pulsed Neutron Source — The Intense Pulsed Neutron source is one of the nation's most productive user facilities for neutron scattering experiments to understand that structure and properties of condensed matter.
www.anl.gov /Science_and_Technology/divisions.html   (947 words)

  
 Beethoven's lead levels
The bone fragments, confirmed by DNA testing to have come from Beethoven's body, were scanned by X-rays from the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne, which provides the most brilliant X-rays in the Western Hemisphere.
Not sure if the fragment was actually from the composer, Kaufman sent it to the University of Muenster in Germany for mitochondrial DNA comparison with the samples of Beethoven's hair, owned by the Beethoven Society and also analyzed by Walsh and his colleagues at the Advanced Photon Source.
Argonne's Advanced Photon Source is a premier national research facility providing X-rays to more than 5000 scientists from around the world.
www.hriptc.org /Beethovens_lead.html   (779 words)

  
 The vibratory response of mirror support/positioning systems for the Advanced Photon Source (APS) project at Argonne ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The vibratory response of mirror support/positioning systems for the Advanced Photon Source (APS) project at Argonne National Laboratory is investigated.
Advanced ceramics are becoming increasingly popular because of their excellent structural, electrical, optical, chemical, and high-temperature properties.
The objective of the proposed research project is to develop improved methods for the manufacturing process control of specific advanced ceramic components fabricated by the industrial MRC members.
mtamri.me.uiuc.edu /cmtsr/Mrc97sp.htm   (1574 words)

  
 Advanced Light Source
Scientists at the ALS detect and analyze the escaping electrons or photons to learn more about the structure and behavior of atoms and the materials in which they are found.
While they both might deliver an equal number of photons per second, those from the ALS are concentrated on a small area, whereas those from the x-ray tube are widely scattered.
Photons with this energy are absorbed by an aromatic group in a fiber I am studying, and I want to make an image of the fiber's cross section.
www.lbl.gov /MicroWorlds/ALSTool   (1461 words)

  
 The Center for Advanced Radiation Sources (CARS) - Introduction
The Advanced Photon Source (APS), a third generation, brilliant, storage ring X-ray source has been built at Argonne National Laboratory.
The X-rays at the APS are emitted by dipole, wiggler and undulator sources which differ in their spectral distribution, brilliance and intensity.
These scientific studies are complemented by research by CARS staff which focuses on the development of novel optical components appropriate for the high brilliance sources, and on the development of new experimental strategies in such areas as high speed data acquisition and reduction and X-ray phase determination.
physical-sciences.uchicago.edu /research/2002/cars_introduction.html   (568 words)

  
 SGX signs agreement to build state-of the-art beamlines at advanced photon source   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When completed, this facility will be the most advanced of its kind, providing the capacity to outstrip the current annual world-wide production of protein structures.
The Advanced Photon Source is a national synchrotron radiation research facility located at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, Illinois.
The Advanced Photon Source is funded by the DOE Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2000-07/NC-Ssat-2507100.php   (731 words)

  
 FaST: Project Descriptions - Advanced Photon Source (APS) Facility   (Site not responding. Last check: )
These photon beams serve the research needs of many fields of science, including physics, chemistry, materials and surface science, biology, and medicine.
These activities include research, development, and construction of instrumentation needed for the broad range of x-ray microscopy, scattering, spectroscopy, imaging, and time-resolved measurements to be performed at the Advanced Photon Source.
Foci includes studies of advanced materials in situ as a means of characterizing their structure and electronic properties, as well as understanding their preparation.
www.scied.science.doe.gov /SciEd/fast/projects/anl_APS.html   (825 words)

  
 2003 Argonne News Releases
But a group of researchers using the Argonne's Advanced Photon Source may have found a way to turn ordinary soft lead into a new, super-hard material that "looks" just like diamond.
ARGONNE, Ill. (Sept. 12, 2003) — Moving one step closer in the battle against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), researchers from a California company using the powerful X-rays at the Advanced Photon Source have determined the first structure of the main protease from the coronavirus that causes SARS.
The license involves a compound called ALS-499 that has demonstrated activity in the laboratory toward inhibiting amyloid protein aggregation that is characteristic of the development of several diseases, including Alzheimer's and type-2 diabetes.
www.anl.gov /Media_Center/News/2003   (2210 words)

  
 Insight on the News: Super x-rays 'see' better: Argonne Laboratory's Advanced Photon Source peers deeply into microbes ...
Lately, that technique has taken a vast leap forward, thanks to the Advanced Photon Source, or APS, which produces the most intense X-ray beams in the world.
As the particles shift direction, they emit rapid-fire bursts of X-rays which, similar to visible light, are composed of energy packets called photons.
Yet, there is a degree of international competition in the workings of the Advanced Photon Source.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n29_v12/ai_18539293   (742 words)

  
 PR Newswire : Remarks by the President to the Press During Tour of the Advanced Photon Source Lab. @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: )
PR Newswire : Remarks by the President to the Press During Tour of the Advanced Photon Source Lab.
Start / P / PR Newswire / July 22, 2002 / Remarks by the President to the Press During Tour of the Advanced Photon Source Lab.
Remarks by the President to the Press During Tour of the Advanced Photon Source Lab.
static.elibrary.com /p/prnewswire/july222002/remarksbythepresidenttothepressduringtouroftheadva/index.html   (258 words)

  
 Advanced Photon Source   (Site not responding. Last check: )
APS- a third-generation synchrotron x-ray source that provides super-intense x-rays for basic and applied research
Concentrate on the study of two dimensional or quasi-two dimensional atomic structures and polymer science and technology
Require low latency connections with relatively large amounts of available bandwidth will be needed for the remote operation of X-based applications to remotely monitor and control the collection of data
www.indiana.edu /~i2andiu/winkler/tsld017.htm   (62 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Biological Fiber Diffraction and Scattering at the Advanced Photon Source
Fiber diffraction and scattering can be used to extract structural information from partially ordered systems that are in general too large to be studied by conventional macromolecular crystallographic techniques.
Third generation storage rings such as the Advanced Photon Source (APS),the ESRF, France, and Spring-8, Japan can be outstanding X-ray sources for these kinds of experiments.
www.ncnr.nist.gov /seminars/2002/biological.html   (210 words)

  
 SCrAPS: Specialist Crystallography at the Advanced Photon Source   (Site not responding. Last check: )
ChemMatCARS is an ANSTO-ASRP supported sector at the Advanced Photon Source, which is located at the Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne USA.
Acknowledgement: Use of the ChemMatCARS Sector 15 at the Advanced Photon Source, was supported by the Australian Synchrotron Research Program, which is funded by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Major National Research Facilities Program.
The Advanced Photon Source is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, under Contract No. W-31-109-Eng-38.
csaf.chem.usyd.edu.au /scraps.html   (383 words)

  
 E0048: An Array for Rapid Powder Diffraction at the Advanced Photon Source   (Site not responding. Last check: )
E0048: An Array for Rapid Powder Diffraction at the Advanced Photon Source
An Array for Rapid Powder Diffraction at the Advanced Photon Source.
An array for the rapid collection of powder diffraction data has been installed on the Commercial Collaborative Access Team beamline (Sector 32) at the Advanced Photon Source.
www.hwi.buffalo.edu /ACA/ACA02/abstracts/text/E0048.html   (173 words)

  
 GM/CA - CAT Sector at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) in Chicago
ACCEL has been contracted to design, manufacture and install a full sector for the GM/CA Collaborative Access Team at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), located at Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago.
This sector will be dedicated to crystallographic structure determination of proteins and other macromolecules and is the result of a cooperation between the National Institute of General Medical Science and the National Cancer Institute.
The optical design of the three beamlines is optimised for the MAD technique and aims at maximizing the photon flux at the sample while keeping beamline operation as simple as possible over the full energy range.
www.accel.de /News/gm_ca_aps.html   (446 words)

  
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Yanbin Wang, Mark Rivers, Steve Sutton, and Tom Duffy Center for Advanced Radiation Sources, The University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL 60637.
A large-volume, high pressure facility for in-situ X-ray studies is being built at the GeoSoilEnviroCARS (GSECARS) at the Advanced Photon Source (APS).
This facility will provide opportunities for a wide range of research such as crystallography, equation of state, phase equilibrium, and deformation of materials under simultaneous high pressure and temperature conditions.
www.za.iucr.org /iucr-top/cong/17/iucr/abstracts/abstracts/E0919.html   (210 words)

  
 Argonne News Releases
ARGONNE, Ill. (Nov. 25, 2005) — With the help of the world's most brilliant hard X-ray beams at the Advanced Photon Source, scientists have seen for the first time metal atoms near the surface of a liquid alloy arrange themselves in alternating layers one atom thick.
ARGONNE, Ill. (Sept. 16, 2005) —Staff members from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, its operating contractor, are jointly and separately participating in emergency response efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
ARGONNE, Ill. (July 8, 2005) — Advances in technology ranging from help for victims of Parkinson's disease and epilepsy to more efficient combustion in industrial furnaces are likely with award-winning research at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and its partners.
www.anl.gov /Media_Center/News/2005   (3718 words)

  
 Advanced Ceramics Report: RESEARCH - Experiments chosen for the Advanced Photon Source@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Advanced Ceramics Report: RESEARCH - Experiments chosen for the Advanced Photon Source@ HighBeam Research
Construction of the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a circular accelerator measuring 1.2 km in circumference that will provide a highly intense, focused beam of x-rays, is now well under way at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, USA.
The APS has already been featured in Advanced Ceramics Report (April, 1994), but Argonne has now released details of some of the initial experiments which will be performed by a number of different industry -university consortia, or Collaborative Access Teams (CAT), when the unit is opened next year.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:45640295&refid=ink_tptd_np   (214 words)

  
 Environmental Dynamics and Simulation - Mössbauer Spectroscopy   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The lead institutions of the consortium are the University of Washington, Simon Fraser University in Canada, and PNNL.
The PNC-CAT is constructing two beamlines at the Advanced Photon Source: one based on a high brilliance undulator-based insertion device source, and the other on a bending magnet source.
Since the bending magnet source is of lower brilliance, the bending magnet line will service simpler "bulk" type samples with typical dimensions of 0.1-1 mm, while the insertion device line can provide sub-micron capabilities.
www.emsl.pnl.gov /docs/eds/annual_report1999/1627b-4c.html   (800 words)

  
 ASRP - Australian Facilities at the Advanced Photon Source   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) is a 7 GeV third generation synchrotron light source constructed by the US Department of Energy at the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, USA, at a cost of about $US 470 million.
It offers synchrotron X-ray beams thousands of times brighter than the second generation Photon Factory, and will be the premier US synchrotron radiation facility well into the next century.
A CAT is allocated one or more "sectors" of the APS, comprising a bending magnet and an insertion device (undulator or wiggler) beamline.
www.ansto.gov.au /natfac/asrp2.html   (546 words)

  
 Advanced Photon Source
News, information, and educational materials about the world’s synchrotron and free electron laser light source facilities
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory provides the US' most brilliant x-ray beams for research in almost all scientific disciplines.
These x-rays allow scientists to pursue new knowledge about the structure and function of materials in the center of the Earth and in outer space, and all points in between.
www.lightsources.org /cms/?pid=1000094   (138 words)

  
 The Advanced Photon Source (ResearchIndex)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Abstract: The Advanced Photon Source (APS) is a 7-GeV third-generation synchrotron radiation storage ring and full-energy positron injector.
3 Performance of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) Linear Accel..
1 Statistical Analyses of the Magnet Data for the Advanced Pho..
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /239786.html   (426 words)

  
 StructuralGenomix: Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Structural GenomiX (SGX) signed a memorandum of understanding today with the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago.
In this field, which holds such huge promise for benefits to mankind, it is a real challenge to move from genome sequencing to accurate high-throughput three-dimensional protein structures, says David Moncton, Argonne's Associate Laboratory Director responsible for the Advanced Photon Source.
Argonne also works closely with industry over 600 companies in the last decade alone to help advance America's scientific leadership and prepare the nation for the future.
www.stromix.com /news/press_release_detail.php?keyID=39   (723 words)

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