Announcements

We are excited to announce that our first video tutorial is finally live for our collaborators!  Jorge has put a great amount of time and effort in directing and recording this instructional video for our collaborators. With this video, we hope the users have enhanced learning experience in packing and assembling a 1-mm capillary cell for in-situ/operando XAS experiments. Please click the video below to watch.  The video can also be found under "Education & Outreach" page.

Co-ACCESS team had a fun and meaningful time volunteering at the 2024  SLAC Regional DOE Science Bowl event in February. On the day of the event, members of the Co-ACCESS team and Bare Group participated as a moderator, timekeeper, and scorekeeper.        Regional Science Bowl is a fast-paced question and answer competition among local Bay Area teams who are tested on a range of science disciplines including biology, chemistry, earth science, physics, energy and math. The...

  We are pleased to share our January 2024 newsletter with you. Please take a read to learn about the latest news from Co-ACCESS! The newsletter can be found in Semi-Annual Newsletter page (click).

Our ACS Catalysis paper, "Limits of Detection for EXAFS Characterization of Heterogeneous Single-Atom Catalysts", has been featured in the latest issue of Advances in Engineering series!  The title of the research highlight is : Do you have a single atom catalyst or not – an EXAFS perspective Click the link to read the article!   Advances in Engineering series (https://advancesENG.com) highlights papers of outstanding scientific significance to reach a broad science and...

We are excited to share the news that Sara Driscoll, our SULI intern for Summer 2023, is the second place national winner in the 2023 IGNITE Off! Competition. At this DOE-sponsored competition, Sara showcased her summer research work with Co-ACCESS at SSRL. Her project involved improving fluorescent detector setup times by making standards with known absorption characteristics to calibrate the detector before use. Please read this article to learn more this exciting news. ...

  We are thrilled to announce that Rachita Rana, a final year graduate student at University of California at Davis, and co-advised by Simon R. Bare, and the developer of the automated workflow QuantEXAFS that uses high-throughput atomistic simulations to fit XAS data, recently participated in the Rising Stars in Chemical Engineering: An Academic Career Workshop for Women, held at MIT. This two-day workshop brought together top female doctoral students and postdoctoral...

  We are excited to share with you the next installment of our newsletter! The newsletter can be found in Semi-Annual Newsletter page (click).

We have released an updated, non-python-based version of our X-ray sample mass calculator, CatMass! Jorge has taken the bones and functionality from Adam’s original release and created an installable program with expanded capabilities. The updated version now offers: Save/Open sample calculations Expanded energy ranges and sample geometries to calculate absorption cross sections Plot sample absorption and identify competing edges in energy and k-space Added functionality to...

  As part of 2018 SSRL/LCLS Users' meeting, Co-ACCESS team organized a workshop titled “Catalysis by Single Metal Atoms: What is All the Fuss About.” This workshop provided a platform for discussion of the current state of our understanding of such catalysts for over 50 researchers who were attending.  Several key points of discussion were: How do you synthesize catalysts with only single atoms? How do you prove that you have only single atoms? What is the local geometry of...