18-ID-D: BioCAT
Life Sciences
The Biophysics Collaborative Access Team (BioCAT) is an NIH P30 Mature Synchrotron Resource for Structural Biology supported national user facility that runs the Sector 18 beamline for the study of the structure and dynamics of disordered and partially ordered biological systems. Solution scattering (BioSAXS) experiments, which provide data about macromolecular conformation in solution, can be done in equilibrium or in a time-resolved mode with microsecond to second time resolution. Separation coupled modes, such as SEC-SAXS, as well as more traditional batch mode experiments, are supported for BioSAXS. Fiber diffraction patterns of exceptional quality can be obtained from complex, weakly diffracting biological systems in very short exposure times. Part of this fiber program is a unique muscle diffraction program, providing instrumentation and expertise to measure equilibrium and time-resolved patterns from both skinned and intact muscle.
Monochromator Type : Si(111) w/ Mirror
Energy Range : 5-16 keV
Resolution : 1 x 10-4
Flux : 5.5 x 1013 @12 keV
Beam Size Hxv :
Focused : 16µm x 25µm
Unfocused : 1mm x 1mm
Source : 3.3 Undulator (Undulator A)
Monochromator Type : Si(111) w/ CRL
Energy Range : 5-16 keV
Resolution : 1 x 10-4
Flux : 4.9 x 1012 @12 keV
Beam Size Hxv :
Focused : 1.4µm x 2.9µm
Unfocused : 1mm x 1mm
Operational/Accepting General Users
On-site Remote Mail-in
monochromatic beam station (15m x 5m)
https://www.bio.aps.anl.gov/
