Annual Review 2024-2025

A N N U A L R E V I E W 2 0 2 4 / 2 5 50 I N S T R UM E N T D E V E L O P M E N T A N D T E C H N I C A L S UMM A RY and Active Materials Laboratory along with an extensive suite of offline instrumentation to support user experiments. For academic research, all of Diamond’s instruments (beamlines and microscopes) are free at the point of access through peer review. For proprietary research, access can be secured through Diamond’s Industrial Liaison team. The instruments and beamlines are organised into science groups as described below. Diamond currently operates 35 beamlines and nine electron microscopes for user experiments. The microscopes make up eBIC (electron Bio-Imaging Centre) and ePSIC (electron Physical Science Imaging Centre). Alongside the beamlines and microscopes, Diamond also houses the UK’s life science X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) Hub, the Membrane Protein Laboratory (MPL), the XChem fragment screening facility, Instrument Development and Technical Summary