Synchrotron radiation sources generate highly brilliant light pulses, ranging from infrared to hard X-rays, which can be used to gain deep insights into complex materials. Using concrete examples, ...

What exactly is a synchrotron? Our Grantham Scholar, Martin Appleby explains what a synchrotron is, how it works and what we do with them. Before I started my PhD, I did a placement on the beamline ...

Chemists, biologists, and other scientists travel across the globe to football field-size synchrotron facilities to use the brilliant light the machines emit for various spectroscopic experiments, ...