Available Detectors
Accessible SAXS and WAXS Ranges
Calibrations
The Sample Stage
Standard Sample Holders and Experiments

In August 2002 our new chemistry and X-ray laboratory went into operation. The 70 m² big laboratory is divided in two parts, in which the bigger share of 43 m² is occupied by the chemistry lab. This unit serves mainly for sample preparation and analysis for both, in house research and external SAXS user groups. In the X-ray laboratory the set-up of a SWAX camera for simultaneous small and wide angle scattering has been completed (Hecus X-ray Systems GmbH, Graz, Austria: www.hecus.at), which allows on-site testing of samples before moving on to the SR beamline. The chemistry lab is meanwhile equipped with:

• Micro centrifuge (max. 13200 rpm; model 5415D from Eppendorf , Hamburg, Germany)
  
• Chemical fume hood (model GS8000 from Optolab, Concondordia, Italy)
  
• Vacuum drying oven (min. pressure 1 mbar; max. T: 200 °C; Binder WTB, Tuttlingen. Germany)
  
• Balance (min.-max.: 0.001 - 220 g; model 770 from Kern & Sohn, Balingen, Germany)
  
• Magnetic stirrer with heating plate and a vortexer for microtubes (model MR 3001 and REAX; both from Heidolph, Schwabach, Germany)
  
• Two water baths (the model Unistat CC is freely programmable in range from -30 to 100 °C from Huber, Offenburg, Germany; the model M3 from Lauda can only heat; Lauda-Könighofen, Germany)
  
• Ultrasonic bath (VWR International, Milano, Italy).