The lab is equipped with a custom designed and made 3 pinhole collimation camera. Typical applications include the analysis of nanocomposites (dispersion, nanofiller size and distribution of sizes), investigations of block copolymers, polymer blends, semicrystalline polymers, etc.
fig. 1 Overview of the SAXS instrumentation
Specifications
X-ray Source | Rigaku 18kW rotating anode generator |
Monochromator/ | Osmic Confocal Maxflux double |
Detector | MARCCD (Ø 165 mm), average pixel size: 78.7 µm at 2048x2048 mode, PSF~100 µm, DQE up to 0.8 for 8 keV-12keV |
Beam Size | ~ 0.6 mm Ø |
Sample to Detector Distance | variable by changing flight tubes up to from 0.35m to 1.8m |
Q Range (typical) | 0.07 - 2.5 (nm-1) |
X-ray Optics | 3 sets of manually driven vacuum pinhole (0.4mm, 0.2mm, and 0.6mm Ø) |
Flight Paths | Evacuated steel pipes |
Sample Chamber | In vacuum or atmosphere, various different sample stages (ARES rheometer, oven, tensile testing machine |
fig. 3 Rigaku rotating anode
fig. 4 The second and third pinholes and the vacuum chamber
fig. 5 Vacuum chamber with the oven sample holder
fig. 6 The MARCCD area detector
fig. 7 The ARES rheometer
For further information please contact: | |
+49 (0) 351 4658-493 | |
Dr. Nikolaos Zafeiropoulos | +49 (0) 351 4658-326 |
Torsten Hofmann | +49 (0) 351 4658-377 |
