Visiting the beamline 7.2 at SLRI

Visiting the beamline 7.2 at SLRI

Traveling grant from SLRI to attend the ASEAN Workshop on Protein Crystallography (AWPX2018)ASEAN Workshop on Protein Crystallography (AWPX2018)
30-31 August 2018

Crystallography is the fine piece of science art! It requires luck as well as patient to get a good diffraction data!


the robot for the screening, they also have the available kits to do the screening
10mg/ml get per screening.



LINAC - accelerate the electron (electron is generated from the electricity)

The blue part is for bending the electron. underground level to boost up the energy of electrons. taking around half an hour, injecting the electron for two times a day. they will transfer the electron to the storage ring.
It cost at least a million /month for sure for the electricity charge but they make very good outcomes. The scientists here are very collaborative.

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11 hours to run in the storage ring and produce the synchrotron light. they modify the ring by which they have the cavity which can put the energy to the electron. each port will have the station. Once the electron has been injected, all the project should run as much as possible, or else it will waste the energy.



the third generation that wants to develop, the policy has been improved, now they are building up. it required a group of experts in each field, engineering, chemistry as well as biology.


they gave the example of the temple deteriorate, they want to fix the temple with the color glass but when importing from the overseas, it has the problem of undistributed color and fade very easily bc of our weather. Princess Sirindhorn knew this situation and she gave the mirror example from temple that decorates by this glass to investigate by the light from the synchrotron, then they have found that the element inside affects on the materials.


color glasses


An example of beamline station


beamline 7.2 hardwork will get the good result that is why they have sofa!


the electricity pole will inform us about the status of the machine. Behind the wall is the storage ring.


PPL mentioned that the detector is very expensive.


Working station for the crystal diffraction.
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one more thing that I feel appreciated from Prof. Chen is that he mentioned he would appreciate on the students/researchers on the effort, rather than the outcomes since crystallography is not easy to get success by the short time, it is the matter of trial, patient, and luck.

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