Traveling Down a Long Beamline at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source

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Argonne is a multidisciplinary science and engineering research center where talented scientists and engineers work together to answer the biggest questions facing humanity. One of the tools helping them to do that is the Advanced Photon Source (APS).

Each year, the APS hosts around 5,500 scientists from around the world who use its powerful X-rays to see deep inside materials. Scientists designing the batteries of the future, for instance, need to be able to observe the changes taking place inside battery materials as they charge and discharge. To truly examine these miniscule effects, scientists need extraordinary X-ray imaging resolution, which was previously unattainable.

Built as part of a comprehensive upgrade to the APS, the In Situ Nanoprobe (ISN) will deliver that resolution. The upgraded APS will generate X-ray beams that are up to 500 times brighter than before, and ISN will send those beams down 720 feet of beamline, allowing for a remarkable focusing ability. The state-of-the-art technology at the end of that beamline will allow researchers to see battery chemistry in unprecedented detail.

ISN will lead the way in other areas of research as well, including materials for solar cells and chemical reactions of catalysts. This video takes you on a journey down the entire ISN beamline, showing you the construction in progress. ISN is expected to come online later this year.

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