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X-ray Crystallography Services

Technique

Sample preparation and screening

Our experienced experimental team is equipped to provide expert guidance or directly handle crystal mounting procedures tailored to your needs. Whether it's mounting tiny crystals onto sample loops, loading air-sensitive crystals into capillaries within a glove box, or preparing serial grids containing hundreds of crystals, we ensure precision and care at every step.

For non-standard experiments, we provide comprehensive demonstrations of specialised loading techniques for sample environment cells. Alternatively, our skilled team, with their practiced expertise, can handle the loading process to ensure optimal loading.

Data collection services

Our data collection service comes with a range of options to ensure you get the most out of your experiment. Our highly qualified and experienced team of diffraction specialists will help you to get started with your experiment and will be available for technical support during your experiment. They will help you to select the most appropriate approach from specialist diffraction research instruments. You may wish our team to perform the experiment on your behalf or would prefer to perform the research yourself or with your own team; either way, we have a wide range of access options to suit your needs.

Contract Research

Our Contract Research service includes data collection and data analysis. Essentially, you send us the sample(s), our highly qualified and experienced staff collect the data, perform the appropriate analysis (in discussion with you) and then send you a clear and accessible report explaining the results.

There's no need for you to fully understand how a synchrotron works, or even the finer details of the technique, we'll take care of that. If you would like to come to Diamond and see the experiment, take place, you are welcome to do so. If you'd prefer to wait for the report, that's great too.

Access Modes

Mail in

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How it works

With this service, you send us the sample(s) and our highly qualified and experienced staff can collect the data for you, exactly as you would do the measurements yourself. We then send you the data in an appropriate format along with a clear and accessible report giving all of the experimental details, allowing you to analyse it fully.

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Perfect for

  • Performing routine measurements, or measurements you haven't run before
  • You simply need an experienced pair of hands
  • If you do not have the time to conduct the experiment yourself

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Benefits

  • Quick and easy
  • Rest assured you are in the safe hands of experienced scientists

Guided self-service

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How it works

This mode allows you to come on-site and work with our highly qualified and experienced staff to run the experiment collaboratively.

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Perfect for

This route is best suited for more challenging non-standard experiments. You can concentrate on the science, while Diamond staff optimise the beamlines to get you the best results.

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Benefits

  • You can concentrate on the science, while Diamond staff optimise the beamlines to get you the best results in a collaborative approach.
  • This option allows a greater number of people to participate in the experiments

Self-service

Self-service

How it works

This mode allows you to collect data yourself by accessing the beamline on-site.

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Perfect for

This route is for experienced users, where you have used the beamline previously and are conducting a similar type of experiment.

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Benefits

You maintain control to run the beamline and achieve your science objectives.

Remote

Remote

How it works

This mode allows you to collect data yourself by accessing the beamline via an interactive remote connection.

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Perfect for

  • Routine experiments
  • Weaker diffracting crystals
  • Users familiar with the collection routines on the beamline
  • Users preferring the convenience of collecting data from their own offices

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Benefits

  • Ability to access the beamline from virtually anywhere, eliminating the need for travel.
  • Flexibility to involve multiple team members in the experiments.
  • Full support from the Diamond team.

Related techniques

X-ray Diffraction (XRD)
X-ray Pair Distribution Function (PDF)
Residual Stress - Strain Mapping

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