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WIP: Refactored LiveFT educational tool
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So the travel and time around the SAS2024 conference allowed me finally to work on some software that was in dire need of attention. One of these software pieces was a tool that I’ve been usi…
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The first five MOF synthesis libraries are online
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Our RoWaN automated synthesis platform has been used to perform over 1200 ZIF-8 syntheses, each with slight variations in the experimental procedure. We went to extraordinary lengths to comprehensi…
on Jun 8
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Should we even be subtracting interacting solvents? Part 1: the considerations
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[A note because I cannot stand being imprecise in terminology: what is commonly called “Solvent” in scattering, is better expressed as: the dispersant medium, i.e. the medium that dispe…
on May 20
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During the last four weeks, we’ve had a guest visiting the lab from the University of Washington. Abdul Moeez, a Ph.D. student in Prof. Lilo Pozzo’s group has been exposed to the operat…
on Mar 22
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Steps for “liberating” the MOUSE from its original control system.
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Regular readers will know we are in the process of migrating away from the last vestiges of the original SPEC-based control system on our (already highly customized) Xenocs Xeuss 2.0 instrument, i.…
on Mar 1
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A Winter School, Italian style…
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Two weeks ago, I was at a winter school on “Metrology and Nanomaterials for Clean Energy”, to present on the 1200 traceable MOF syntheses as well as introduce the poor young souls to th…
on Feb 13
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Designing and building a pluripotent temperature (PID) controller
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When it became time to build a new temperature controller, I wanted to build an ultimate design that could be used for (almost) everything. This is what came out (click “more” for the b…
on Jan 30
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MOUSE operational statistics 2018 – 2023
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Are you curious how much you can gain by automating of your methods and instrumentation? The operational stats for the MOUSE including 2023 are now avalable! Click on for the reveal and some side n…
on Jan 24
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Happy new year! And plans for 2024..
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We’re already 2% into 2024, but there might still be time to wish you a happy new year, and hint towards the plan for 2024. (click for more…)
on Jan 21
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The MOUSE is back in (“friendly user”-)operation, but plenty of work lies ahead.
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After about 1.5 months of struggles with the collapse of the veritable domino-stack of hardware that comprises the MOUSE, the system is now functional to such a degree that we can measure again. It…
on Dec 22
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Adding a motor controller to the MOUSE step 2 – towards replacing SPEC.
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Last time, I showed the rapid development of the replacement motor controller hardware, and pointed at the development of the driver software (an EPICS IOC for directing the motor controller from t…
on Dec 13
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Motor controller madness – a tale as old as time
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A few weeks ago, at about the same time we were swapping around motor stages for grazing incidence experiments, my trusty self-built motor controller version 1 stopped being nice. Trouble soon ensu…
on Nov 29
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Avoid these issues when designing synchrotron experiments…
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This year, I’ve become part of a peer review panel. These are panels that wade through a long list of proposals for beamlines, and rank the proposals. Based on this ranking combined with the …
on Nov 21
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Talk on lab automation and synthesis data structure online
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A month ago, I gave a quite extensive talk introducing our flexible laboratory automation platform and how that fits in to the rest of our methodology. This talk is now available on YouTube thanks …
on Nov 18, 2023
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A convenient grazing incidence (GI) sample holder
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We’re just getting started with grazing incidence measurements on our MOUSE instrument. These measurements require mounting a sample (typically a wafer or glass slide), so that its surface is…
on Nov 1, 2023
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CanSAS 2023 – where are we going?
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I have just returned from the 2023 CanSAS meeting in Grenoble, and I have… opinions, both positive and negative ones. Read on for my take on the thing.
on Oct 24, 2023