Activity Report 2007

1. FOREWORD AND INTRODUCTIONS
2. CHEMICAL AND MATERIALS SCIENCE
3. EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
4. LIFE SCIENCE
5. TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTATION
6. EXPERIMENTAL FACILITIES
7. OPERATIONS
8. PUBLICATIONS

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FOREWORD AND INTRODUCTIONS

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Editor’s Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Introduction: Science
• Industrial Solutions and Services

CHEMICAL AND MATERIALS SCIENCE

• Surface Speciation of Organoarsenicals on Iron (Oxyhydr)oxides Using As-XANES
  H.A. Al-Abadleh, Tuan Hoang

• XANES Study of Tribofilms
  BoHoon Kim, P.B. Aswath

• X-ray Absorption Near-Edge Spectroscopy of the P K-edge of Transition-Metal Phosphides M₂P
  P. E. R. Blanchard, A. P. Grosvenor, R. G. Cavell, A. Mar

• XANES and XEOL Study of SnO₂ nanowires
  N.C. Grawburg, M.W. Murphy, J.Y.P. Ko, T. Regier, R. I. R. Blyth, X. Sun, T.K. Sham

• SGM Valence Band PES study of Hf(Si_0.5As_0.5)As
  A.P. Grosvenor, R.G. Cavell, A. Mar, R.I.R. Blyth

• Optical Emission and Quantum Confinement: XEOL from Nanostructured ZnO(Tb)
  F. Heigl, L. Armelao, T. Regier, R.I.R. Blyth, S. Brunet, R. Sammynaiken, J.Y.P. Ko, M. Murphy, H. Fang, T.K. Sham

• Studies of the Linear Dichroism of Individual Carbon Nanotubes with STXM at the C 1s edge
  E. Najafi, M. Obst , A.P. Hitchcock, D. Hernández Cruz, A. Felten, B. Douhard, J.-J. Pireaux, K. Kaznatcheev, D. Bertwistle, C. Karunakaran

• PEEM/NEXAFS Analysis of Ultrathin Fluorocarbon Films for Coated Stents
  P. Horny, S. Turgeon, P. Hale , F. Lewis , D. Mantovani

• CORRIGENDUM: NEXAFS Studies of Pentacene and Tetracene Thin Films
  D.T. Jiang, J. Shi, A. Tersigni, T. Regier and X.R. Qin

• Liquid Crystals under an X-ray Microscope
  K. Kaznatcheev, L. Tortora, A. Golovin, O. Lavrentovich

• Probing the Optical Response of Functionalized Silicon Nanocrystals with Soft X-rays
  J.A. Kelly, E.J. Henderson, C.M. Hessel, R.G. Cavell, J.G.C. Veinot

• X-Ray Excited Optical Luminescence Studies of Calcium Carbonate
  J.Y.P. Ko, R. Krishna Pai, N. Hedin, T.K. Sham

• X-PEEM study of corrosion inhibition of steel by aniline oligomers
  P. Kruse, M.T. Greiner, M. Festin

• Spectroscopic Studies of Silicon Nanowires – Some Observations
  Lijia Liu, M. Murphy, T.K. Sham, L. Zuin , Y.F. Hu

• XANES Study of Sol-Derived [Co-N-C]-based Catalysts for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
  V. Birss, H. Molero, A. Man

• Optical-XANES of ZnO-ZnS Nanoribbons
  M.W. Murphy, X.-T. Zhou, J.Y.P. Ko, J.G. Zhou, F. Heigl, T.K. Sham

• Reactivity and Charge Transfer in Aluminum Alloy AA2618 Reinforced with Alumina Particles
  W. A. Uju, I. N. A. Oguocha

• High Resolution X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
  T.Z. Regier, J. Shi, A. Tersingi, R.I.R. Blyth, X.R. Qin, J.S. Tse, D.T. Jiang

• Silicon Nanocluster-based Materials Studies on the SGM and PGM Beamlines
  T. Roschuk, P. R. J. Wilson, O. H. Y. Zalloum, J. Wojcik, J. Li, P. Mascher

• The Chemical Structure of Boron Oxide Species at Melt-Derived Glass Fibre Surfaces
  R.A. Schaut, R.A. Golombeck, K.T. Mueller, C.G. Pantano

• XAFS Studies of Structured Bimetallic Nanoparticle Catalysts at the CLS
  R. W. J. Scott, P. Dash, W. Hou

• Optical Emission from Germanium Nanowires
  X.H. Sun, C. Didychuk, X.T. Zhou, F. Heigl, L. Armelao, T. Regier, R. I.R. Blyth,
  T.K. Sham

• Diffraction at High Pressure and High Energy
  J.S. Tse, S. Desgreniers, J.S. Smith, D.D. Klug, N. Chen, D.T. Jiang

• Secondary Electron Emission Microscopy of Langmuir Blodgett Thin Films
  S. Christensen, U.D. Lanke, B. Haines, S.E. Qaqish, M.F. Paige, S.G. Urquhart

• Fast Vortex Core Switching in Nanoscale Magnetic Elements
  B. Van Waeyenberge, A. Vansteenkiste, M. Curcic, M. Weigand, H. Stoll

• X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Reconstruction in V-oxide Heterostructures
  H. Wadati, D.G. Hawthorn, J. Geck, T. Regier, R.I.R. Blyth, T. Higuchi, Y. Hotta, H.Y. Hwang,
  A. Tanaka, G.A. Sawatzky

• An XAFS Study on the Local Structure of Molecularly Capped Gold-Palladium Nanoparticles
  F. Liu, P. Zhang

• The contribution of sp²- and H-bonded carbon to the luminescence from diamond films
  X.T Zhou, T.K. Sham, Y. Wu, Y.M. Chong, I. Bello, S.T. Lee, F. Heigl, T. Regier, R.I.R. Blyth

EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

• Speciation of Nickel in Aerosols: Comparison of Synchrotron XANES and Sequential Leaching
  B. Ajiboye, J. Warner, M. Dutton

• N and C K-edge XANES Spectroscopy of Rhizosphere and Non-Rhizosphere Soils
  A.W. Gillespie, F.L. Walley, R.E. Farrell, P. Leinweber, T. Regier, R.I.R. Blyth

• NEXAFS Investigation of Al, Fe and Mn Oxide Catalysis of the Abiotic Polyphenol-Maillard Humification Pathway
  A.G. Hardie, J.J. Dynes, L.M. Kozak, P.M. Huang

• Boron K-edge XANES Studies of: 1) Borosilicate Glasses Proposed as Nuclear Waste Encapsulation Materials; 2) The Dependence of the BO₃/BO₄ Ratio on Iron Redox in Iron Rich Sodium Borosilicate Glasses
  G.S. Henderson, S. Dong, L. Galoisy, G. Calas, G. Bureau, S. Peuget, B. Cochain, D.R. Neuville

• Oxygen K-edge and Titanium L-edge XANES Studies of Glasses and Minerals
  G.S. Henderson, S. Dong, B. Cochain, D.R. Neuville, T. Hoche

• Nitrogen Speciation in Soils by Near-Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (NEXAFS)
  Spectroscopy and Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy (STXM)
  J. Lehmann, D. Solomon

• Development of a Method for the Quantification of Organic Nitrogen in Environmental
  Samples by N-XANES
  P. Leinweber, J. Kruse, F.L. Walley, A. Gillespie

• Importance of Heterocyclic Nitrogen (N) Containing Compounds for the N Cycling in Soil
  and N Plant Nutrition
  P. Leinweber, J. Kruse, F.L. Walley, A. Gillespie

• Speciation and Quantification of Inorganic and Organic Phosphorus Forms in Environmental
  Samples by P L-edge XANES
  J. Kruse, P. Leinweber, C. Baum, F. Godlinski, E. Someus

• Precursor Phases and the Influence of Extra-cellular Polymers on CaCO₃ Precipitation by Cyanobacteria
  M. Obst, A.P. Hitchcock, J.J. Dynes, J.R. Lawrence, G.G. Leppard, G.D.W. Swerhone, K. Benzerara, P. Gasser, L. Holzer, D. Bertwhistle, K. Kaznatcheev, C. Karunakaran

• Silicon and Aluminum XANES Spectroscopic Studies of Clay Liners Subjected to
  Hyper-acidic Solutions
  S. Shaw, J. Hendry, D. Peak

• Arsenic Speciation in Bangladesh Groundwater Tank Precipitates
  D. Peak, M. Martin, P.M. Huang

• Investigation of the 3D Geometry of Low Permeability Rocks Using Synchrotron
  X-Ray Computed Microtomography
  J.L. Robb, T.G. Kotzer, C. Hawkes

• The Effect of Organic Ligands on Phosphate Sorption in Soil: Detection by
  P/Al L_2,3-edge and Al K-edge XANES
  C.R. Schefe, P. Kappen, P.J. Pigram, L. Zuin, C. Christensen

LIFE SCIENCE

• Crystallization, Preliminary X-ray Diffraction and Structure Analysis of Thermotoga maritima Mannitol Dehydrogenase
  J. Puttick, C. Vieille, S.H. Song, M.N. Fodje, P. Grochulski, L.T. J. Delbaere

• STXM and SR-IR Analysis of Delftia acidovorans Biofilms Exposed to Chlorhexidine
  J.J. Dynes, T. Rema, J.R. Lawrence, G.D.W. Swerhone, A.P. Hitchcock, G. G. Leppard, M. Obst, K. Kaznatcheev, D. Bertwhistle, C. Karunakaran, D. R. Korber

• Selenium Acquisition by Arabidopsis Plants
  D. Lydiate, E. Higgins, S. Robinson, M. Korbas, S.I. Yang, I. Pickering

• Probing magnetic order at the nanoscale
  K. Lam, M. Obst, A.P. Hitchcock, J.J. Dynes, J.R. Lawrence, G.D.W. Swerhone, G.G. Leppard, D Bazylinski, D. Bertwistle, K. Kaznatcheev, C. Karunakaran

• Chemical Imaging of Plant Cells
  C. Hyett, T.H. Ellis, J. Tse, K. Tanino

• FTIR Spectromicroscopy of Saprotrophic and Endophyte Fungi: Growth under Optimal
  and Stressed Conditions
  S. G. W. Kaminskyj, K. M. Gough, M. Isenor, K. Jilkine, A. V. Szeghalmi, R. J. Rodriguez, R. S. Redman, R. Schmid

• The Crystal Structure of Archaeal RadA Recombinase in the Presence of Monovalent Ions
  X. Qian, K.T. Osman, Y. Luo

• Structural Basis for the Regulation of N-Acetylglutamate Kinase by PII in Arabidopsis thaliana
  Y. Mizuno, G.B.G. Moorhead, K.K.-S. Ng

• Mapping Protein Orientation in Spider Silk by STXM – The Effect of Water
  M. Pézolet, T. Lefèvre, M. Obst, A. Hitchcock, M.M. West, C. Karunakaran

• Synchrotron Vibrational Linear Dichroism of Retinal Rod Cells
  L. Quaroni, T. Zlateva, D. Bedolla, K. Goff, R. Zvarich, V. Torre

• First Structure Solved by Anomalous Methods at the Canadian Light Source
  K.E. Van Straaten, A. Hoffort, D.R.J. Palmer, D.A.R. Sanders

• Therapeutic Mechanism of Gallium: Preliminary Ga L_2,3 -XANES studies
  K.R. Ball, P.M. Dowling, T.K. Sham, T. Regier, R.I.R. Blyth, J. Thompson

• Radiation Induced Decomposition of Glycine
  R.G. Wilks, J.B. MacNaughton, A. Moewes, T. Regier

• Structural Conformation and Microlocalization of Digestion-Resistant Biopolymers Compounds in Feeds at Cellular Dimensions
  Peiqiang Yu, N. Liu, K. Doiron, D. Liu, Z. Niu, C.R. Christensen, D.A. Christensen, J.J. McKinnon

• Crystal Structures of Norwalk Virus Polymerase Complexes Provide a Structural Basis for Understanding Enzymatic Catalysis and a Novel Mode of Inhibition
  D.F. Zamyatkin, F. Parra, J.M. Martín Alonso, D.A. Harki, B.R. Peterson, P. Grochulski, K.K.-S. Ng

TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTATION

• X-ray Diffraction Commissioning Activities at the Hard X-ray MicroAnalysis
  Beamline 06ID-1 (HXMA)
  S. Desgreniers, J.S. Smith, J.S. Tse, C.Y. Kim, N. Chen, D.T. Jiang , D.D. Klug

• More Absorption Path, Higher Resolution, and Longer Wavelengths with the
  CLS Far Infrared Beamline
  A.R.W. McKellar, D. Tokaryk, D. Appadoo

• Active Optics on the Mid Infrared Beamline
  T. May, L. Quaroni, C. Bodnarchuk, S. Chen

• Speckle Recording in STXM
  P. Chen, C. Karunakaran, K.V. Kaznatcheev

• A Portable Apparatus for High Resolution Time Resolved X-ray Excited Optical Luminescence (TRXEOL) at the CLS
  S. Brunet, R. Sammynaiken, T. K. Sham, M. Murphy, J.Y.P. Ko, H. Fang, R.I.R. Blyth, D. Beauregard, T. Regier, J. Thompson, Y.F. Hu, L. Zuin, I. Coulthard, J. Vogt, M. de Jong, F. Heigl, L. Armelao

• CORRIGENDUM: GIXD Studies of Pentacene and Tetracene Thin Films D.T. Jiang, C.Y. Kim, A. Tersigni, J. Shi, T. Regier, N. Chen, and X.R. Qin

EXPERIMENTAL FACILITIES

• Experimental Facility Development
  E. Hallin

• Mid-Infrared Beamline 01B1-1
  L. Quaroni, T. May

• Far-Infrared Beamline 02B1-1
  D. Appadoo, B. Billinghurst, T. May

• Spherical Grating Monochromator (SGM) Beamline 11ID-1
  R. Blyth

• Variable Line Spacing Plane Grating Monochromator (VLS-PGM) Beamline 11ID-2
  L. Zuin

• X-ray Spectromicroscopy Beamline 10ID-1
  K.V. Kaznatcheev

• Hard X-ray Micro-Analysis (HXMA) Beamline 06ID-1
  C.Y. Kim, N. Chen

• Canadian Macromolecular Crystallography Facility Beamline 08ID-1
  P. Grochulski

• Synchrotron Laboratory for Micro and Nano Devices (SyLMAND)
  Beamline 05B2-1
  V. Subramanian

• Very Sensitive Elemental and Structural Probe Employing Radiation from a Synchrotron (VESPERS) Beamline 07B2-1
  R. Feng

• Canadian Macromolecular Crystallography Facility Beamline 08B1-1 (CMCF 2)
  M. N. Fodje

• Resonant Elastic and Inelastic Soft X-Ray Scattering (REIXS) Beamline 10ID-2
  F. He

• Soft X-ray Micro-characterization Beamline 06B1-1 (SXRMB)
  I. Coulthard

• BioMedical Imaging and Therapy (BMIT) Facility: Beamline 05ID-2
  T. W. Wysokinski

• BioMedical Imaging and Therapy (BMIT) Facility: Beamline 05B1-1
  T. W. Wysokinski

• CLS Optical Metrology Facility
  A. Duffy, B.Yates

OPERATIONS

• Facility Operations Division
• Accelerator/Machine Status Report
• Control and Instrumentation Development 
• Engineering and Technical Services
• Information and Communications Technology
• The CLS User Services Office
• Saskatoon Synchrotron Summer School
• Health, Safety and Environment

PUBLICATIONS

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