I am looking for a postdoc and/or a research associate with powder diffraction experience to work on structural characterization of lead halide perovskite films and devices using X-rays at SSRL. Contact me if interested. erp-hprdext.erp.slac.stanford.edu/psp/hprdext/EM…

You have experience in energy materials or soft condensed matter and are looking for a Postdoc? BM28/XMaS European Synchrotron is hiring! 🔬 Application before 03/10/21 on xmas.ac.uk/vacancies/. #Science #Opportunities #jobvacancies Warwick Physics 🇬🇧 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council lightsources.org

I’m looking to hire a postdoc to work on CO2 reduction with me at Harvard! See the announcement below and please retweet! hunterlab.rowland.harvard.edu/files/hunterla…

The pain of loading capillaries in the glovebox for powder diffraction always turns to deep satisfaction when I get the spinner nicely aligned.

Last sample that needed to be run by hand at SSRL Beamlines BL2-1 finished. Time to let Mr. Roboto take the last night shift before the winter break. Only 6 samples, should be done by the time I get home and have dinner.

As much as I accomplished and as hard as I worked over the last year, I think that I am too burnt out to feel particularly proud of much of it. Instead of a celebratory drink, I decided a dram of something special would act as a demarcation of the shift to winter break. Slàinte!

Just had to use the last bit of daylight to test this out. Delivery delayed a week because of the weather, but excited for my new ⁦⁦SpaceX⁩ dishy! Should do much better up on the roof, but I’m not climbing up there tonight.

A really nice article by Cara. I’m very proud to be a part of this effort and helping to represent SSRL! Reshaping the World of Research Through Remote Experimentation #NSLSII bnl.gov/newsroom/news.… via Brookhaven Lab

Excited to see this shiny new toy go on the beamline today!

Last week it was the Anton Paar. This week is the new blade coater (too bad it isn’t this pretty with all of the cables and vacuum lines hooked up)! As great as it is to see these generating data on the beamline, it makes me miss those nice simple ex-situ experiments.

It isn’t often that my ranching and physics background intersect, but consider this spherical cow…

Really happy to see this work finally come out. It was a long time in the making (6 years!) but it went a lot more quickly once Laura Crowe and Laura Schelhas got involved. If you are interested in strain in hybrid perovskite thin films, give it a look. pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

All ready for the first user at the new SSRL beamline at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Here we go!

Exciting times at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and SSRL! Finally putting the first (heavily attenuated) synchrotron X-rays on the DECTRIS Ltd. Eiger 4M at beamline 17-2. Thanks to Tim J. Dunn and Ross Arthur for letting me push the button to take this image.

In today’s episode of “I Only do Chemistry on a Beamline”… solid state synthesis with multiple hour anneal times. Staging a robot vs. T-Rex fight to pass the time between samples.