Diamond Light Source

☀ Recently installed solar panels that cover the roof of Diamond Light Source are now fully operational! ⚡ The energy generated by the solar panels is an annual supply of 2.3GWh/y. This output amounts to around 5% of the facility’s total annual energy consumption. 🗨 Gianluigi Botton, CEO of Diamond Light Source, said: "The completed solar panel installation demonstrates our commitment to lowering the carbon footprint of our world-changing science. This is significant in the high-tech, specialised research and development sector that Diamond operates in.” Read more here. ⬇ https://lnkd.in/e2hZBXtv

🐈 Did you know that cat whiskers can be used for drug discovery? 📲 Diamond postdoc, Megan, recently reached out to their local Facebook group with a call to locals to donate cat whiskers, providing they had fallen out naturally. 📻 This caught the attention of BBC Radio Oxford, who interviewed Megan to find out more on why cat whiskers are so useful. Tune into the programme at around 1 hour 43 to find out more: https://lnkd.in/ezpdVmhT

Reflecting on an incredible week of connections at #SRI2024 Last week, Lightsources.org travelled to Hamburg to be part of one of the community’s most popular events. SRI2024, organised by DESY and the European XFEL, attracted over 1000 experts. The conference gave us the opportunity to celebrate our 20th Anniversary with scientists and technical experts from facilities, academia and companies within the international light source community.  Lightsources.org is particularly keen to support early career professionals and, to support this goal, two lunchtime sessions were offered during the conference. The first, chaired by Isabelle Boscaro-Clarke, focused on career insights and development with a panel of senior leaders including Gianluigi Botton, Diamond Light Source, Sakura Pascarelli, the European XFEL, Britta Redlich, HFML-FELIX and , Laurent Chapon, Argonne National Laboratory (APS) and Gerd Materlik, UCL. The second session put the spotlight on science communication. Attendees were supported by science communicators including Silvana Westbury, Lightsources.org, Isabelle Boscaro-Clarke, Diamond/Lightsources.org, Cindy Lee and Andrea Taylor, Berkeley Lab (ALS) and Synchrotron Radiation News, Miriam Arrell, the PSI Paul Scherrer Institut Scherrer (SLS / Swiss FEL) and Florentine K.,Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (BESSY II). During the poster sessions, Christian Schroer from DESY and Andy Dent from Diamond judged the SRI 2024 Science Poster Prize, while Cindy Lee from Berkeley Lab (ALS) and Miriam Arrell from Paul Scherrer Institute (SLS / SwissFEL) judged the SRI 2024 Science Communication Poster Prize, which was in memoriam to Till Mundzeck.  SRI 2024 Science Poster Prize 1st prize went to Renan Ramalho Geraldes from Sirius at the Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS) Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) for the poster “The Loading Chamber of the SAPOTI Cryogenic Nanoprobe at the CARNAUBA Beamline at Sirius/LNLS”. 2nd prize went to Tang Li from DESY for the poster “Real-life challenges of single-beam ptychography vs. multi-beam ptychography”. 3rd prize went to Jan Lukas Dresselhaus from the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging for the poster with the title “Aberration corrected multilayer Laue lenses enable focusing to below 3 nanometres”. Jan Lukas Dresselhaus also won the Science Communication Poster Prize. 2nd prize was given to Amna Majid from European XFEL for the poster with the title “Fault detection in Ion Pumps at the European XFEL”. 3rd prize went to David Meier from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for his poster with the title “Offset finding of beamline parameters on the METRIXS beamline at BESSY II”. The SRI 2024 Science Communication Poster Prize (Public voting) was awarded to Emmanuel Aneke (APS at Argonne National Laboratory) for the poster “Simulation and Measurement of Horizontal Emittance via Undulator High Harmonics at the APS-U”. The next SRI conference will be held in 2027 in Brazil.

Registration is still open for the Imaging and Microscopy User Meeting. ⬇ Registration is open until 17:00 (BST) on Monday 9th September 2024. 🤝 Join us for sessions which cover the major scientific themes relevant for the user community, covering areas such as energy materials and environmental science. 🔗 Read more and register here: https://lnkd.in/eZK34ksd

Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron, is one of the most advanced scientific facilities in the world, and we’re thrilled to be part of its story by delivering a brand new extension building as part of the Diamond-II upgrade.     Diamond harnesses the power of electrons to produce bright light that scientists can use to study anything from fossils to jet engines to viruses and vaccines. The machine accelerates electrons to near light speeds so that they give off light 10 billion times brighter than the sun.    Jamie Williamson, Architect, said: “We are thrilled to deliver this critical project for Diamond Light Source, overcoming the constrained site challenges and integrating with the Synchrotron to provide a fantastic R&D facility for our client. Seeing the superstructure finalising and awaiting the cladding envelope to wrap the building is an exciting milestone for the project.”    We are delivering this in partnership with J4 Projects, CHASE Consulting Ltd and MESH Construction Consultancy. The project is being built by John Sisk & Son Ltd. You can read more about the project here 👉🏽 https://lnkd.in/eW4cW7_H   Harwell Science and Innovation Campus | STFC | Liz Sparrow    #LightSource #Synchotron #Physics #Science #Innovation #Electrons 

🐉💎🦖 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐬. 🐲 Thanks to studies carried out at Diamond's I18 and B16 beamlines, A research team from King's College London, led by Dr Aaron LeBlanc have discovered that Komodo dragons have iron-clad teeth. 🦷 Looking into the teeth characteristics of these “living fossils” may provide new ways to learn about the eating habits of carnivorous dinosaurs, which haven’t been previously available. 🐊 Dr LeBlanc’s team also looked at other serrated edged teeth from beavers, crocodiles and other reptiles. Find out more in our most recent science highlight. ⬇ https://lnkd.in/ewWzK9uC

🆕 💡 An update from Diamond's Crystallography Group, with news on beamline upgrades, technical challenges, scientific contributions and more, is available on our website. 👇 https://lnkd.in/ea6fp7nD 📅 Every year, Diamond produces an Annual Review, covering the scientific, technical, computing and business updates from the facility. The feature above has been prepared for our latest review, and looks at work conducted between April 2023 to April 2024. https://lnkd.in/enX3yiPV

🌎 We recently hosted the I15 Extreme Conditions User meeting at Diamond Light Source, welcoming over 60 international scientists to discuss the latest developments in X-ray powder and single-crystal diffraction experiments at extreme pressures and temperatures. 🤝Thank you to all involved.

🚨 Registration for the Imaging and Microscopy User Meeting is still open! The event covers major scientific themes relevant for the user community, including: 🦠 Biology and Biomaterials ⚡ Energy Materials 🌍 Environmental Science ⚙ Materials Science and Engineering Register here by Friday 9th September 2024: https://lnkd.in/eZK34ksd

🚀Launching our first Faraday Masterclass of 2024 focusing on utilising facilities at STFC for #BatteryResearch! Dr Veronica Celorrio will provide an overview of X-Ray spectroscopy for battery materials at Diamond Light Source 🔋 Faraday Masterclasses are open to anyone working in the UK battery community, and collaborators of the Faraday Institution, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, and Diamond Light Source, working on batteries or in adjacent research areas. 📣Do you know anyone who might be interested in using X-ray spectroscopy at central facilities in their research? Please share! James Le Houx, Faraday ISIS Emerging Leader Battery Fellow, at ISIS is leading on the series. Mark the future dates in your diaries: 📆 23/10/24 Muon Techniques for Battery Materials 📆 27/11/24 X-ray Powder Diffraction for Battery Materials 📆 11/12/24 Machine Learning/AI analysis methods for scattering/spectroscopy data Check out the recordings of previous masterclasses in this series: https://lnkd.in/eTx98s3Z #BatteryResearch #BatteryMaterials #Spectroscopy ReLiB Project FutureCat Harwell Science and Innovation Campus UK Research and Innovation