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Construction has begun on the latest addition to the UK’s world class new research facility, Diamond Light Source. The Joint Engineering, Environmental and Processing (JEEP) beamline will be the first experimental station to extend outside of the main building to enable large engineering components to be placed under Diamond’s powerful X-ray beam.
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On 30th January 2008, Beamline B16 was pleased to welcome its first users: Professor Moreton Moore, Professor Victor Petrashov and Dr Rais Shaikhaidarov from Royal Holloway, University of London. B16 is a flexible and versatile beamline for testing new developments in X-ray optics and detector technology and for trialling new experimental techniques. It is the ninth Diamond beamline to welcome users.
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Thin films produced by depositing pre-formed size-selected gas-phase nanoparticles are an important class of materials, particularly because of their application in magnetic memory.
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In the UK, a parliamentary House of Lords Select Committee is undertaking an inquiry into the effectiveness of action by intergovernmental organisations to control the spread of infectious diseases.
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Scientists from the Mary Rose Trust are using cutting edge synchrotron technology at Diamond Light Source to provide 21st century solutions to enhance the conservation of Henry VIII’s Tudor warship.
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Tuberculosis is a major cause of death worldwide, killing over 1.5 million people each year. Understanding how the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes disease in humans and how it survives in the body could provide the key to combating this killer disease. Scientists from the Universities of Oxford and British Columbia have used Diamond to determine the structure of a protein called HsaD, which enables the tuberculosis bacteria to survive in the human body.
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Following recent factually inaccurate media reports, we would like to provide clarification regarding expenditure relating to Diamond’s construction and operational budgets.
Diamond’s Phase I construction concluded at the end of December 2006 and was delivered within the approved budget of £263.2m including contingency.
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The The Rt. Hon, John Denham (Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills) and Mr Ian Pearson (Minister for Science and Innovation) visited the UK's new synchrotron facility as part of a visit to the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, where Diamond Light Source is part of the growing research community.
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John Denham, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, will today present an honorary CBE to Professor Gerhard Materlik, Chief Executive of Diamond Light Source Ltd for services to science.
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Over one hundred members of the Oxfordshire Federation of Woman’s Institutes (WI) gathered together at Diamond Light Source this week to mark the finale of one of the largest art/science projects in the UK.
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The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) has joined forces with 100 of the UK’s leading engineering companies, universities and colleges, including Diamond Light Source, in a drive to crack a skills shortage in the profession.
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The first paper to be published on research carried out at Diamond has appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Scientific links between Diamond Light Source Ltd, the UK's new synchrotron science facility, and two Russian science institutes – the Kurchatov Institute and the Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography - were strengthened this week when these partners signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on collaborative research.
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Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, officially opened Diamond Light Source, the UK’s new national synchrotron facility today (Friday 19 October 2007). Diamond is the largest science facility to be built in the UK for 40 years and is set to play a major role in facilitating ground breaking science that is carried out in this country over the coming decades.
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Synchrotron-based Earth and Environmental Science Research Initiative (Enirosynch2): Travel and Subsistence Funding
Applications are invited for travel and subsistence awards to fund research trips to international synchrotron radiation facilities. This small initiative is jointly funded by the NERC and Diamond Light Source (DLS) and aims to build and develop the use of synchrotron radiation techniques in all fields of Earth and Environmental sciences research.
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The first users on the I22 Non-Crystalline Diffraction beamline, Professor Tim Wess and his team at the University of Cardiff, have been able to analyse the state of the collagen within parchment and its degenerative change to gelatine.
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Diamond has appointed a trio of artists to have a presence on site and work with members of the science team over the next 12 months.
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This week marks the dawn of a new era of scientific endeavour as Diamond Light Source, the UK’s brand new synchrotron facility, opens its doors for business and welcomes its very first scientific users. Top academic teams from Durham, Oxford, Leicester and London have been selected to be the first users of one of the brightest sources of light in the world that will enable them to find out more than ever before about the secret structure of the world around us.
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Three short months after celebrating the first generation of synchrotron light, Diamond Light Source announced today that it has reached the final milestone in the construction of a facility that is destined to change the landscape of UK science.
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Diamond Light Source Ltd is now eligible for funding from Facility Development Project Grant Scheme, managed by STFC. This scheme was developed to encourage academic researchers and others to put forward innovative and creative ideas for development of facility instrumentation, detectors, analytical capabilities and sample environments among others.
