Standards

Water (Absolute Intensity Calibrant)

Water is in principle the best a-priori standard we have for absolute intensity calibration, and there are several articles demonstrating and exploring this. Indeed there are two nice things to say about water …

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Silver Behenate (peak at 0.1076 1/Å)

With a peak in the middle of the traditional SAXS region, a strong scattering pattern and a shelf-life of several years (when kept dry and in the dark) this powder is the de-facto …

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Chicken Tendon (d=65.3nm)

With a rich structure consisting of a large number of peaks, collagen is a nice low-q standard. Various sources of collagen are shown in the literature: rat tail, turkey and chicken At …

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