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

👐 Last week Diamond hosted the InfraRed Data Analysis Workshop on QUASAR. The three day, interactive workshop helped students learn to use QUASAR software to address the InfraRed user community's need for a user-friendly and open-source software for IR data. Thank you to Ferenc Borondics and Marko Toplak, who co-ran the workshop. Synchrotron SOLEIL | University of Ljubljana

🆕 💡 An update from Diamond's Impact, Corporate Communications and Engagement Team, with news on events, public and media engagement, and more, is available on our website. 👇 https://lnkd.in/eXaYhrFX 📅 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

Register for a third in the series of Faraday Masterclasses 2024 focusing on utilising facilities at STFC for #BatteryResearch! Dr Sarah Day will focus on X-ray powder diffraction for #BatteryMaterials 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. Sign up here https://lnkd.in/e3tMDmbw Do you know anyone who might be interested in X-ray spectroscopy in their research? Please share! Check out the recordings of previous masterclasses in this series by finding them in our past events: https://lnkd.in/eZKuijUs #BatteryResearch #BatteryMaterials #Spectroscopy ReLiB Project, FutureCat, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, UK Research and Innovation

📈 Researchers have developed hierarchical cage molecules capable of adsorbing gases like carbon dioxide and sulphur hexafluoride. This was achieved through predictive computer modelling, validated by experimental studies. 🤝 The research was a collaborative effort involving teams from the University of Liverpool, Heriot-Watt University, Imperial College London, the University of Southampton, and East China University of Science and Technology. 💡 Diamond played a pivotal role with advanced synchrotron diffraction techniques, crucial for characterizing the complex structures of the new materials. This discovery highlights the potential of combining computational predictions with experimental validation to develop even more complex and functional materials in the future. Find out more in today's science highlight. ⬇ https://lnkd.in/e5RfuaPY

⏪ A few months ago, you may have seen us share the work of Dr Peter Docker, R&D specialist at Diamond Light Source, and his work on creating an acoustic levitator used to suspend samples. 📽 In this video (yes, it is a video!) you can see how stable the sample held in the levitator is. Although levitation using Langevin Horns has been used for experimentation at synchrotrons before, they are often bulky, high power, and costly. These new systems utilising transducers from parking sensors are small, low power, adaptable and cheap! They offer many benefits including contactless sample environments; a ‘virtual test tube’ for time resolved studies where mixing can happen or light activated studies carried out. They also offer the potential for automation of sample delivery; traps filled with sample and processed down to the beam for data collection. Latest developments have seen the suspended sample achieve great stability. Currently 6 Diamond beamlines are exploring this technology with interest also from the Canadian Light Source Inc. / Centre canadien de rayonnement synchrotron and General Atomics.

🧲 In a recent study involving University of Oxford, Diamond Light Source and ShanghaiTech University, researchers have uncovered unexpected slow relaxation processes in chiral magnets, challenging our conventional understanding of magnetic dynamics. ⏳ This discovery reveals that chiral magnets can exhibit relaxation processes extending to hundreds of milliseconds or even seconds, far longer than previously predicted. These insights have profound implications for the development of next-generation spintronic devices, particularly those involving magnetic skyrmions. Understanding these slow relaxation processes could pave the way for new advancements in the field of magnetism and spintronics. Read the full article to explore how these findings could revolutionize our approach to magnetic materials and devices. 🌐 https://lnkd.in/eVh92ZPz University of Oxford | ShanghaiTech University

⏰🔁 20 years ago this month, Diamond's experimental hall was still under construction. Once completed, the experimental hall originally housed seven beamlines as a part of Phase I. Now, in Phase III, Diamond houses over 30 beamlines with more still to come as a part of the Diamond-II upgrade. Find out more about Diamond-II and its flagship beamlines below. 👇 https://lnkd.in/e46R52_e

🤝 Diamond is pleased to announce a new partnership agreement with Max Planck POSTECH/Korea Research Initiative (MPK) has been established. 🎯 The aim of the agreement is to unite the two organisations in educational and scientific cooperation. This will include exchanging research expertise in shared fields of interest, as well as encouraging research visits between the two organisations. Find out more here. 👇 https://lnkd.in/e8uThSC4 Max Planck Institute | Pohang University of Science and Technology

🆕 💡 An update from Diamond's Biological Cryo-Imaging Group, with news on user community growth, eBIC, B24 and more, is available on our website. 👇 https://lnkd.in/eT9enP2j 📅 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