Versatility

SAXS is many things
Any materials science lab will need to measure many different types of samples
- solids
- powders
- solutions
- gels
- fibers
- thin films and many more
And there will be a need to manipulate them in even more ways:
- heating
- cooling
- stretching
- shearing
- electrocuting
- drying
- wetting
- subjecting them to magnetic fields
- subjecting them various atmospheres
- shining light on them, etc
Oh and yes and of course measuring them in
- transmission mode
- grazing incidence mode and/or
- anything in-between.
Design for versatility
So having made SAXS instrumentation since 1985, we have very consciously designed versatility into our materials science instruments in the following ways:
- The moving detector allows to make optimized measurement in any given q-range that you choose and so allow you to switch easily between for example SAXS and WAXS, or even GI-SAXS
- The sample enclosure on all instruments, allow for a very large a diverse range of sample environments, and
- The modular nature of the underlying software allows software integration of both commercial and home-built sample environments, that may become relevant at a later time
And watch it grow
As a result of these characteristics the following types of experiments have been done on our materials science instruments
- Ambient work with up to 30 solid samples in a single run
- Temperature work between -130 and 350°C on solids, gels and liquids
- Solution Scattering in refillable capillaries at temperatures from 4 to 80°C
- GISAXS/GIWAXS on ambient or temperature controlled stages
- DSC work on samples in transmission
- Tensile stress work on fibers and solid samples
- Shearing work on gel-like samples
- Light-exposure work on light responsive materials
- Magnetic work with both small and large magnets and
- Time-resolved Micro-fluidics
- Scattering in humidity conditions