MAX IV: Where Can the Danish Science Communities Contribute?

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MAX IV Where Can the Danish Science Communities
Contribute?

• Lise Arleth, Professor
• Structural Biophysics
• Niels Bohr Institute
• University of Copenhagen
• Today On behalf of the Danish X-ray and neutron
  scattering community (Danscatt)

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Primary global challenges as research drivers

• Energy and environment Limited ressources and
  increasing demand

• Health Wish for improved health for a growing
  population

Small-molecule drugs
Protein-based drugs
Protein-based drug receptors
gt Research in smart materials
gt Research to obtain more efficient and better
targeted medical drugs
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The Danish scattering community

• Craddle-period (1980-2000)
• Community around the Risø National Laboratory
  west of Copenhagen
• Denmark ran the Risø research reactor optimized
  for neutron scattering and an international user
  facility (until about 2000)
• Strong involvement in the Hamburg Synchrotron
  (Hasylab)
• Focus on Materials research (Hard Materials and
  Soft Materials) and Biostructural Research
• The Astrid Synchrotron at Aarhus University
• User and development facility for soft X-rays
• Strong involvement and usage of the Hamburg
  Synchrotron (Hasylab)
• Focus on Hard Materials Research and
  Biostructural Research
• X-ray users organized in the DanSync organisation
• Neutron users organized in the DanScatt
  organisation

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The Danish scattering community

• From around 2000 (Shut down of the Risø Research
  reactor)
• Gradually stronger and stronger involvement in
  the various international neutron and X-ray
  scattering facilties (including out-placement of
  senior staff)
• Former Risø Scientists became distributed in
  Danish and international academic insititutions.
  Still forms a strong network
• Merger of X-ray and neutron user organizations
  into the DanScatt organisation
• Strong growth of user community for X-ray and
  Neutron Scattering
• Strong engagement in the ESS project Bottom-up
  community based and Top-down political
• Stronger and stronger engagement at Max-II
  Synchrotron Bottom-up community based

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Danscatt - The Danish X-ray and neutron
Scattering community in 2012

• Strong X-ray and Neutron Scattering user groups
  at almost all Danish Universities and at large
  compagnies
• Universities
• Aarhus University
• Danish Technical University
• University of Copenhagen
• University of Southern Denmark
• University of Roskilde
• Compagnies with independent user groups
• Haldor Topsøe
• Carlsberg Laboratory
• Novo Nordisk A/S
• - Community growth rate of 7
• - Present Danish PhD population with projects
  than depend on X-ray or neutron work 140 (30
  neutrons, 60 X-rays, 10 XN )

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Danish scattering community and MaxLab

• Past Danish engagement at MaxLab
• - Cassiopeia project Co-funding and
  participation in the Cassiopeia beamline. gt
  Construction of 5 Bio-instruments, mainly protein
  crystallography at the 911 beam-port
• Optics etc mainly from Denmark
• Instrumentation mainly from Sweden
• Participation from public and private partners
  (Astra Zeneca, Novo Nordisk A/S)
• Consolidation of JJ-X-ray (now about 20
  employees)
• -Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Beamline
  Co-development between MaxLab and U. Copenhagen.
  First at I-711 (Shared with powder
  crystallography), then optimized reincarnation at
  I-911-4
• - Powder Crystallography Beamline (I-711)
  Co-development between MaxLab and U. Aarhus.

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User statistics from MaxLabs homepage (2011
numbers)
Danish Users
Commissioning of the Max-II and Cassiopeia project
The impact of the Danish user community is
already very visible at Maxlab
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Denmark and the MaxIV project

• The Danish scattering community is very excited
  about the Max-IV project!
• And in particular about the world-wide unique
  brilliance that the project offers
• The Danscatt user community is very interested in
  contributing to the Max IV project
• Where can Denmark contribute
• Design and construction of whole instruments
• As Power-users that drive and adapt existing
  instrumentation to specific purposes
• Establishment of user hubs

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A Danish beamline proposal Hybrid powder
diffraction and imaging

• Vision Establish a beamline which can reveal
  material structure and composition right from the
  atomic scale to the macro-world
• Motivation Every conceivable material property,
  and any technological development, hinges upon
  internal structure (atomic level, nanometer and
  micrometer scale)
• Solution Combining two very powerful X-ray
  techniques
• Powder diffraction, detects chemical bonds and
  identifies structure
  from atomic level to ?200-300 nm scale
• X-ray Imaging, reveals material composition in 3D
  from nanometer into the
  micrometer- and millimeter scale
• Specialities
• Energy materials (solar cells, thermoelectrics,
  catalysts, fuel cells, etc.)
• Time-resolved studies (live vision) of chemical
  reactions or physical processes

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A Danish beamline proposal Hybrid powder
diffraction and imaging

• Additional potentials
• Small-molecule crystallography, crucial e.g. to
  pharma industry
• Geo-science research, e.g. non-invasive
  identification of minerals and sediment
• Bio-materials such as bone, enamel, etc. (e.g.
  for prosthetic development)
• Catalysis studies under real conditions, e.g.
  structural changes, poisoning
• Education of a whole generation of young,
  brilliant materials scientists beyond anything
  a home lab can acomplish!

• A beamline built for
• Highest-impact science by virtue of
  revolutionizing hybrid construct
• Maximum synergy with the new European Spallation
  Source (ESS)
• Relevance to industry as well as academia

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- Danish users as power-users/strategic partners
to optimise instrumentation to specific purposes

• - Instrumentation, sample environment and
  software

• Software for Instrument simulation
• Software for Data Analysis

• X-ray Optics

• Detectors

• Sample Environment

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Establishment of User-hubs Example DTU as
science hub/industry portal for 3D imaging of
materials
Industry
International Facilities

• DTU Imaging Portal
• Competence development
• Discussion of industrial problem
• Recommendation of best method
• Supplementary material analysis
• Assistance at beam time
• Assistance with data analysis
• Research collaboration
• X-ray instruments LOCALLY

Synchrotrons Neutrons
KU is in the process of establishing a comparable
science hub for Life Sciences
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Special focus of the DTU hub 3D imaging of
energy materials
Oil/CO2 storage
Fuel cells
Wind energy
Catalysis
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Science hubs - Advantages
For industry - Much lower barrier for use of
large scale facilities - Training -
Recruitment For facility - Broaden
(industrial) user base - Regional partner for
instrumentation and data analysis For
university - Collaboration with
industry - Strenghten research and education
- Local knowledge center on large scale
facilities For local region/country -
Enthusiasm Should be scientifically focused
Excellence is a requirement
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Data Management

• The ESS Data Management Center will be placed in
  Copenhagen (Director appointed as of October
  2013)
• Capacity Building
• It may be interesting to discuss the Max-IV data
  management needs in this context to investigate
  potential synergies

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On the MaxIV and ESS projects

• On a slightly longer timescale the two projects
  should be seen as a whole (from the outside)
• Some users will only use X-rays
• Some users will only use neutrons
• More and more users will use both X-rays and
  Neutrons and shop between the facilities
• Status
• Danish Scientific, political and economical
  support to the ESS project
• So far mainly scientific support to the Max-IV
  project

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Conclusions
Department of Micro and Nanotechnology

• The Danish Scientific communities are extremely
  enthusiastic about the Max IV project
• The Danish Scientific communities would like to
  influence and contribute to the specific
  instrumentation at the Max IV
• Danish Universities are presently establishing
  science hubs that can help in optimising the
  usage of Max IV and other Large Scale facilities
• We will need to have the Max-IV project lifted up
  to the Danish political level (as the ESS project
  is)

Thank you!