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

Dear All,  We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic microscopist to join B24 at Diamond which provides cryo soft x-ray microscopy (cryoSXT) and cryo super-resolution 3D structured illumination fluorescence Microscopy (CryoSIM) allowing correlative imaging across the cryobioimaging (BCI) science group at Diamond which includes B24 and eBIC, the UK's national cryoEM centre.  Full details can be found here: https://lnkd.in/emmVTffS Informal inquiries can be made directly to me! Thanks Martin -

👋 Meet Bob, the Senior Beamline Technician on Diamond's I12 beamline. Bob ensures the smooth running of the state of the art equipment on I12, overseeing maintenance and modifications, and supporting scientific research. 🗣 “The biggest highlight of my career at Diamond is when we got first light, which is when we could see the beam on the monitors. That was when we knew that everything we had done, worked! Another big highlight is my workmates, who throughout my career have been brilliant. We are one big family! I feel that we owe it to the next generation of technicians to similarly look after and encourage them.” 💡 Highly skilled technicians are essential to the research done at world-leading science facilities. This is especially true at Diamond's advanced beamlines, where technicians play a critical role in developing and maintaining these powerful tools. Find out more about Bob's work in our latest news piece. 👇 https://lnkd.in/eFSRs6tJ

🔋 Apply cutting edge transmission electron microscopy techniques to solve fundamental materials science problems in next generation battery materials as a PDRA at the electron Physical Science Imaging Centre (ePSIC) at Diamond Light Source. 🔗 This position is in collaboration with the Departments of Materials and Chemistry at the University of Oxford and is funded by The Faraday Institution’s SOLBAT project. 📅 Closing date: 16/02/2025 Find out more and apply below. ⬇

🔬 Event: Fundamentals of PyMCa and MANTiS for XRF and XANES data interpretation workshop 2025 This workshop, jointly organised by beamlines I14 and I18, aims to provide training for the analysis of elemental imaging XRF and XANES data from the nano- and micro- probes. 🗓️ When: 04/03/2025 - 06/03/2025 📌Where: Diamond Light Source ⏳ Apply by: 29/01/2025 Find out more and apply here: https://lnkd.in/ebwub_GW

🤝 “Two beamlines and facilities are truly working in concert.” In an innovative experiment, a robotic sample preparation platform driven by AI was used to undertake simultaneous experiments at both Diamond Light Source and the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source. 🟥🟦 Researchers from The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) performed two experiments in parallel between the Larmor instrument (ISIS) and the I22 beamline (Diamond) to investigate paint formulations, making use of small angle scattering to determine properties of the system. The AFL machines, one red and one blue, were linked together across computer networks and worked concurrently. 📍 This set up, of using a neutron and X-ray facility in unison, is only possible in two locations in the world. Find out more in our most recent news piece with the link below. ⬇ https://lnkd.in/en9XVwtk

🧫 As the threat of antibiotic resistance looms, scientists are designing new drugs to fight off bacteria. A team of microbiologists developed a potent inhibitor against E. coli and other Gram-negative bacteria. 💊 X-ray crystallography experiments on the I04-1 beamline unveiled how the drug latches onto an enzyme needed for the synthesis of a fatty sugar on the outer-membranes of these bacteria, presenting a new drug-enzyme interaction with therapeutic potential. Find out more in the science highlight below. ⬇ https://lnkd.in/e7VH6B9A

📢 We are excited to announce that registration is now open for the Biological Cryo-imaging User Meeting 2025! 🗓️ Date: April 23 2025 (24 – 25 April for CCP-EM SS2025)  📍 Location: East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham, UK  🔗 Registration: https://lnkd.in/eVbpMxGa This year’s meeting will be held at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham on April 23, where researchers and professionals in the field of cryo-electron microscopy will gather to share their latest news, advancements and insights. Whether you plan to attend in person or participate online, this event promises to be a dynamic and inclusive environment for learning and networking. But that’s not all! Immediately following our meeting, don’t miss the CCP-EM Spring Symposium taking place on April 24-25. The user meeting and following symposium provide a dynamic and inclusive environment where leading researchers gather to share and discuss the latest advancements in cryo-EM 🦠  A big thank you to our sponsors: CryoCloud, DECTRIS Ltd., NanoSoft, LLC, SPT Labtech/Quantifoil, SubAngstrom, and Thermo Fisher Scientific for making this possible. We can’t wait to see you there! 🙌 #CryoImaging #BCIUM2025 #ScientificCommunity #CryoEM #CryoET #MicroED

🌍 The accumulation of plastic waste in the environment is an ecological disaster and will require multiple solutions to tackle the problem. A team of researchers from King's College London, with the use of the B23 beamline at Diamond, has developed a strategy to enhance the use of enzymes to depolymerise a broad class of plastics. ♻ The strategy employs ionic liquids and a commercially available enzyme to degrade the plastic. This could lead to the possibility of converting waste into valuable raw materials for creating new, high-quality plastics without reliance on fossil fuels. Find out more in our most recent science highlight. 👇

📸 CSXID, a Diamond-II Flagship beamline, recently had its first (unofficial) image! What you can see below is a long exposure photograph, taken in the beamlines hutch. This newly constructed hutch currently behaves like a large pinhole camera, projecting an image of the experimental hall on its inside rear wall. After setting up a canvas (or a large envelope 😄), and taking a photo with a camera set to a slow shutter speed we managed to get this; CSXID's first unofficial image. 🔄 Swipe between the images to see the pinhole image, compared to a regular camera. Want to know more about this beamline? Find out more here. ⬇ https://lnkd.in/emmgfv-J