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Introduction
What is SAXS/SWAXS?
Brilliance – Bridging the Synchrotron-Gap
The HECUS Technology & Application Pool
Introduction
Hecus X-Ray Systems, founded in 1992, is traditionally specialized on innovative system solutions for X-Ray nanostructure analytics. The strong focus on small-angle X-ray methods - the Otto-Kratky heritage - serves a wide community of researchers and engineers, who need SAXS and related techniques as practical and reliable tools in their challenging laboratory practice, and who want to use the techniques routinely.
What is SAXS/SWAXS?
Small- and Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering (S/WAXS) are non-invasive analytical techniques to investigate the structure of non-crystalline or partly crystalline materials. Both the supra- or macromolecular domain as well as the interatomic distances in small molecules or crystals are investigated.
Fields of Application:
- Polymers
- Liquid Crystals
- Powders & Cream Formulations
- Biopolymers
- Biomaterials
- Catalysts
- Nanomaterials
- Coatings & Films
Brilliance – Bridging the Synchrotron-Gap
Synchrotron radiation facilities, the ultimate in high-end instrumentation, are an important technology source for Hecus systems. Innovations in X-ray sources, optics, sample environment, detectors, computing and automatisation, have led to the latest generation of laboratory SAXS systems (Hecus S3-MICRO) that approach the brilliance of synchrotron bending-magnet SAXS beamlines – at bench-top instrument dimensions.
The HECUS Technology & Application Pool
Hecus can draw on an unequalled pool of collaborations and partnerships with leading research institutions: the Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research (IBN, Graz), the ELETTRA synchrotron facility (Trieste, Italy), the Research Centre for Pharmaceutical Technology Engineering RCPE (Graz), and numerous prominent industry partners in X-ray instrumentation as well as in chemical and pharmaceutical production worldwide.
The experience gained in these activities directly flows into instrument development providing the customer with practice-proven, innovative solutions, such as:
- microfocus SWAXS
- modular 1-D or 2-D detection
- SAXS/SWAXS zoom
- high-pressure SAXS
- T -scanning SWAXS
- D SC/SWAXS
- GI SAXS
- microfluidics SAXS
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