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SAXS services

Technique

Sample prep and screening

Our dedicated industry team has experience in preparing SAXS samples from a wide range of materials and can advise on optimum sample preparation methods or prepare samples on your behalf, as required.

Data collection

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 SAXS specialists will help you to get started with your experiment and will be available for technical support during your experiment. They will help you select the best approach to get the optimal results from your research. You may wish our team to perform the experiment on your behalf or would prefer to conduct 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 design the experiment, 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.

 

Flexible access

We provide a range of flexible access modes to meet your needs.

Mail in

Mail-in

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.

Mail-in

Perfect for

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

Mail-in

Benefits

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

Guided Self-Service

Guided-SelfService

How it works

With this service, you bring the sample(s) to Diamond and our highly qualified and experienced staff can collect the data with you, advising on the best experimental approach and ensuring that all team members have a chance to participate in the sample preparation and data collection as required. 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.

Guided-SelfService

Perfect for

  • Performing experiments you haven’t run before
  • Making most effective use of experimental time
  • Complex non-standard experiments or experiments with complex sample handling requirements; you can concentrate on the science while the Diamond team optimise the data collection to get the best results. 
     

Guided-SelfService

Benefits

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  • You can concentrate on the samples and the scientific goals, while the Diamond team will optimise the instruments to get the best results in a collaborative approach
  • This option allows a greater number of people to participate in the experiments
  • Gives confidence in sample integrity when sample handling is complex.

Self-service

Self-service

How it works

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

Self-service

Perfect for

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

Self-service

Benefits

  • You control the beamline and collect your own data
  • You can make decisions on which samples to run based on the results during the experiment
  • Great for last-minute projects or to simply explore a scientific question in real time
  • Many of our clients like to use participation in beamtime experiments as development opportunities for junior staff and students.

Related techniques

Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS)
Protein SAXS (bioSAXS)

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