MRI Consortium: Acquisition of X-Ray Scattering Instrumentation - SAXS/WAXS/GISAXS

杜克大学的小角度x射线散射（SAXS）设施将是北卡罗莱纳州三角研究地区的第一个x射线散射仪器。因此，它将为多学科研究人员提供服务，并首次提供机会，培训学生掌握先进的散射技术。杜克大学共享材料仪器设施（SMIF）的SAXS设施将为该地区的三所主要大学提供服务：杜克大学、北卡罗来纳州立大学和北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校。目前在SMIF使用仪器的两所历史悠久的黑人大学——北卡罗来纳农工州立大学和北卡罗来纳中央大学也将使用该仪器。该仪器将为材料科学、结构生物学、聚合物和胶体化学、化学和生物医学工程以及纺织工程等领域的研究人员提供服务。仪器功能将广泛，以满足用户的不同需求，包括广角x射线散射（WAXS）和掠射小角x射线散射（GISAXS）。

The small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) facility at Duke University will be the first X-ray scattering instrument in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. It will therefore serve a multidisciplinary community of researchers and provide the opportunity, for the first time, to train students in advanced scattering techniques.The SAXS facility at Duke University's Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF) will serve three major universities in the area: Duke University, North Carolina State University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It will also be available to two historically black universities, North Carolina A&T State University, and North Carolina Central University, that currently utilize instrumentation at SMIF. The instrument will serve researchers in materials science, structural biology, polymer and colloidal chemistry, chemical and biomedical engineering, and textiles engineering. The instrument capabilities will be broad to address the different needs of the users, and include wide angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) and grazing incidence small angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS).