Highlights from research with synchrotron radiation
Canadian scientists want to simplify the production of good chocolate, Sept. 08, 2021
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The production of good, smooth chocolate requires a complex procedure, and on an industrial scale, also large machines. Tempering creates a homogeneous cocoa butter crystal structure in the chocolate. The fact that a certain phospholipid can serve as a crystallisation nucleus and thus replace the complex tempering process has now been demonstrated with the help of synchrotron radiation. [more] |
29 June 2021: KFS publishes press release with examples of corona research at synchrotron radiation sources
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To fight COVID-19, we need vaccines and medicine, and to develop these, we need to know the SARS-CoV-2 virus in detail. The virus cannot be seen with a normal light microscope, since it is smaller than the wavelength of visible light. Synchrotrons can produce the short-wave photons or X-rays required. It is of great advantage that we have an outstanding research infrastructure established in the last decades, both in Germany and abroad with German participation. Synchrotron light source facilities include PETRA III and FLASH at the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, BESSY II at the Helmholtz Centre Berlin (HZB), European XFEL near Hamburg or ESRF in Grenoble, France. They allow the virus to be imaged with atomic precision. [more] |
Interviews with Dr. Andrea Thorn (Hamburg University, KFS) in ZDF, Jan. 16, 2021
