Sprecher
Beschreibung
The customized instrument began user operations in April 2023. As the latest addition to our small-angle scattering instrument family, the new instrument is equipped with a high-flux Metal-Jet source and a movable Eiger2R 4M SAXS detector. It also features a 4-axis motorized WAXS detector and a Bonse-Hart USAXS system, enabling a broad scattering vector q range from 0.0002 to 7 Å⁻¹.
The instrument is enhanced by versatile sample stage supports, various in situ platforms commonly used in SANS experiments, such as rheometers, electromagnets, stopped-flow devices, FT-IR spectrometers, and electrochemical workstations. The extensive array of sample environment accessories allows experiments to be conducted over a temperature range of -150℃ to 1000℃, under diverse conditions including shear, humidity, tensile deformation, as well as coupled techniques such as operando-battery, SEC-SAXS and Raman-SAXS. It will greatly assist users of our neutron scattering facilities in acquiring complementary X-ray structural information and will streamline the selection of suitable samples for neutron instruments, thereby improving the efficiency of our neutron scattering user programs.
KWS-X has provided more than 8,000 hours of beam time to over 100 users and supported more than 120 proposals. Within a short period, it has already contributed to over 40 high-quality publications in renowned journals including Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, JACS, Matter, and Angewandte Chemie.