Tag Archives: X-rays

Behold, liquid carbon

Posted on September 16, 2025 by

Carbon is famous for its many solid forms. It’s the soot in air pollution, the graphite in pencil leads, and the glittering diamond in expensive jewellery. It’s also the carbon nanotubes in biosensors and fullerenes in organic solar cells. However, … Continue reading →

Posted in Scicomm | Tagged density functional theory, European XFEL, glassy carbon, Lennard-Jones model, liquid carbon, molecular dynamics, quantum simulation, shockwaves, short-range order, static structure factor, X-ray diffraction, X-rays | Comments Off

Politics at SESAME

Posted on January 1, 2018 by

I’ve been following the story of the SESAME collaboration in the Middle East since I first heard about it seven years ago, and was really thrilled when its synchrotron achieved first light in November 2017. I wrote about the significance of … Continue reading →

Posted in Scicomm | Tagged Iran, Middle East, Oslo Peace Accords, Palestinian Authority, SESAME experiment, synchrotron, Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East, UNESCO, X-rays | Comments Off