Brilliant Light in Life and Material Sciences
by Tsakanov, Vasili; Wiedemann, HelmutEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-04-03
Publisher(s): Springer Verlag
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Summary
The present book contains an excellent overview of the status and highlights of brilliant light facilities and their applications in biology, chemistry, medicine, materials and environmental sciences. Overview papers on diverse fields of research by leading experts are accompanied by the highlights in the near and long-term perspectives of brilliant X-Ray photon beam usage for fundamental and applied research. The book includes advanced topics in the fields of high brightness photon beams, instrumentation, the spectroscopy, microscopy, scattering and imaging experimental techniques and their applications. The book is strongly recommended for students, engineers and scientists in the field of accelerator physics, X-ray optics and instrumentation, life, materials and environmental sciences, bio and nanotechnology.
Table of Contents
| Synchrotron light sources, status and new projects | p. 3 |
| The European XFEL project | p. 21 |
| SPEAR3 synchrotron light source | p. 31 |
| Status of the ALBA project | p. 45 |
| Status and highlights of siberian synchrotron and terahertz radiation center | p. 57 |
| CANDLE synchrotron light source project | p. 69 |
| Social and economic impact of the CANDLE light source project | p. 81 |
| Kharkov X-ray generator NESTOR | p. 89 |
| X-ray absorption spectroscopy in biology and chemistry | p. 97 |
| Biological application of synchrotron radiation : from Artem Alikhanyan to nowadays | p. 121 |
| Recent advances in automation of x-ray crystallographic beamlines at the EMBL Hamburg outstation | p. 133 |
| 3D macromolecular structure analyses : applications in plant proteins | p. 141 |
| Alignment of moleculs in solution | p. 153 |
| Structural investigation of ordering in biopolymers | p. 165 |
| Reconstruction of the electron transport chain of secretory granule membrane | p. 175 |
| Emission spectroscopy in biophysical macromolecular research | p. 185 |
| Influence of lowintencity electromagnetic irradiation on the wheat seedlings chromatin fractions | p. 199 |
| Correllation between aquoes pore permeability and surface charge of wheat seedlings nuclei | p. 205 |
| Thermodynamic profile of interaction of porphyrins with nucleic acids | p. 213 |
| Some aspects of synchrotron radiation effects in radiobiology | p. 219 |
| The biomedical programs at the ID17 beamline of the European synchrotron radiation facility | p. 225 |
| Novel chemotypes in pharmacochemical approaches | p. 241 |
| Genetic effects of electromagnetic waves | p. 251 |
| Synchrotron FT-IR spectroscopy of human bones. The effect of aging | p. 267 |
| Micro-FT-IR spectroscopic studies of breast tissues | p. 273 |
| Primary mechanism of EM interaction with the live tissues | p. 279 |
| Dye sensitizing and protective properties during electromagnetic irradiation of living systems | p. 283 |
| Cryoglobulins in acute ischemic stroke | p. 289 |
| Level and chemical composition of cryoglobulins in schizophrenia | p. 295 |
| Recent advances in imaging with spectroscopic analysis at elettra | p. 301 |
| Advanced materials research with 3rd generation synchrotron light | p. 317 |
| Dynamics of dimers and adatoms at silicon and germanium surfaces | p. 329 |
| Impurity states in quantum well wires and quantum dots with coating | p. 339 |
| VUV spectroscopy of wide band-gap crystals | p. 349 |
| X-ray diffraction imaging of nanoscale particles | p. 361 |
| X-ray spectroscopy | p. 371 |
| Hard x-ray holographic methods | p. 383 |
| Natural zeolites and application in liquid waste treatment | p. 395 |
| Study of memory in solids states under synchrotron radiation excitation | p. 403 |
| HOM damped cavities for high brilliance synchrotron light sources | p. 413 |
| Review of electron and photon beam diagnostics in advanced light sources | p. 429 |
| Production of femtosecond-picosecond electron and x-ray pulses in synchrotron radiation sources | p. 441 |
| Bunch time structure detector with picosecond resolution | p. 455 |
| Auto-calibrating based dispersometer for high-accuracy alignment systems | p. 465 |
| Thin wire secondary emission target for pico-femto second RF timing technique | p. 469 |
| Vibration wire monitor for photon beams diagnostics : preliminary tests on laser beams | p. 475 |
| Use of multi-beam scattering radiation for the absolute x-ray energy calibration | p. 479 |
| Gravitational wave detectors - CANDLE case | p. 485 |
| Ruby based detector in UV and VUV spectral region | p. 491 |
| Two-layer ultra-high density x-ray optical memory | p. 495 |
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