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14 March 2022
SLS

Novel X-ray lens facilitates glimpse into the nanoworld

Media Releases Research Using Synchrotron Light Matter and Material Industrial co-operation

PSI develops a revolutionary achromatic lens for X-rays.

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11 January 2022
Revealing invisible defects in fusion reactor armor

Revealing invisible defects in fusion reactor armor

In an exciting collaboration, Nick Phillips, a PSI Fellow at the cSAXS beamline, reveals nanoscale lattice distortions created by invisible defects in fusion reactor armor. This work develops the current understanding of how the smallest, but most prevalent defects, generated during neutron irradiation behave. The novel Bragg ptychographic approach published in Nature Communications paves the way for fast, robust, 3D Bragg ptychography.

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9 December 2021
Marianne Liebi and Manuel Guizar-Sicairos

Ground-breaking technology development recognised

PSI researchers win the international Innovation Award on Synchrotron Radiation for 3D mapping of nanoscopic details in macroscopic specimens, such as bone.

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4 November 2021
Retina

Neurodegenerative disease studied by cryogenic X-ray nanotomography

Hard X-ray cryo-tomography scanning of retina from healthy and inherited blindness specimen paves the way for correlative analysis after imaging at the cSAXS beamline.

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5 October 2021
Guizar-Sicairos ICO prize ceremony

Dr. Manuel Guizar-Sicairos is awarded ICO prize

Dr. Manuel Guizar-Sicairos, beamline scientist at the cSAXS beamline, is the 2019 recipient of the International Commission for Optics (ICO) Prize. The distinction was awarded in the EOSAM conference in Rome.

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7 July 2021
Ptycho-topo teaser image

Imaging strain with high resolution

Imaging strain in crystalline materials with high resolution can be a challenging task. Researchers demonstrate an original use of X-ray ptychography for this purpose: ptychographic topography.

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9 June 2021
Teaser ptychografie

How catalysts age

Media Releases Research Using Synchrotron Light Materials Research Matter and Material Industrial co-operation

Catalysts used in industry change their material structure over the years. Using a new method, PSI researchers have now studied this on the nanoscale.

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2 June 2021
Understanding Why Solid-State Batteries Fail.

Understanding Why Solid-State Batteries Fail

Researchers from the University of Oxford, the Diamond Light Source and the Paul Scherrer Institut have generated strong evidence supporting one of two competing theories regarding the mechanism by which lithium metal dendrites grow through ceramic electrolytes. A process leading to short circuit at high rates of charge. The X-ray phase-contrast imaging capabilities of the TOMCAT beamline of the Swiss light source allowed researchers to visualize and characterize the growth of cracks and dendrites deep within an operating solid-state battery. The results were published in Nature Materials on April 22, 2021.

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26 May 2021
SAS tensor tomography

Quantifying oriented myelin in mouse and human brain

Myelin 'insulates' our neurons enabling fast signal transduction in our brain. Myelin levels, integrity, and neuron orientations are important determinants of brain development and disease. Small-angle X-ray scattering tensor tomography (SAXS-TT) is a promising technique for non-destructive, stain-free imaging of brain samples, enabling quantitative studies of myelination and neuron orientations, i.e. of nano-scale properties imaged over centimeter-sized samples.

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