Activity Report 2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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First Author Surnames
- Introductions and Acknowledgements
- Earth and Environmental Science
- Lifesciences
- Chemical and Materials Science
- Instrumentation and Techniques
- Students on the Beamline Project
- Experimental Facilities
- Facility Reports
- Publications 2009
Introduction and Acknowledgments
- Cover
- Publication information
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Advisory Committees
- In Memoriam
- Science Table of Contents
- Research Director's Report
- Industrial Science: An Update
- Organic Nanoglobules in Primitive Meteorites — Insights into Interstellar Organic Chemistry
B.T. De Gregorio , R.M. Stroud , C.M.O’D. Alexander, L.R. Nittler - Nickel-sorption to Biogenically versus Abiogenically Formed Ferrihydrite
M. Eickhoff, M. Obst, K. Benzerara, A. Kappler - Influence of Arsenic on the precipitation of Iron-oxides by Acidovorax sp. BoFeN1
C. Hohmann, M. Obst, K. Benzerara, G. Morin, A. Kappler - PAH Sorption to Black Carbon Particles: Spectromicroscopic Quantification and Mapping
M. Obst, P. Grathwohl, G. Cornelissen, A. Kappler, B. Nisch, A.P. Hitchcock, S. Kalirai, M. Reid, T. Gocht - EPS Composition and Calcification Potential of Filamentous Cyanobacteria
B. Zippel, J.J. Dynes, M. Obst, J.R. Lawrence, T.R. Neu - Lateral Sulphur Speciation on HCl Leached Pyrite by PEEM
A.P. Chandra, U. Lanke, J. Cavallaro, A.R. Gerson - Spatial Distribution of Xanthate on Copper Activated Pyrite by IR-Microscopy
A.P. Chandra, J. Cavallaro, A.R. Gerson - Nano-scale Spatial Biogeocomplexity of Organomineral Assemblages
using NEXAFS Spectromicroscopy
D. Solomon, J. Lehmann, K. Heymann and J. Harden - Influence of Fertilizer Type and Concentration on Phosphate Sorption in Soil:
A P L2,3-edge XANES Study
C.R. Schefe, L. Zuin, C. Ryan, P. Kappen - Arsenic Speciation of Metals Removed by a Biologically Based System
A. Mattes, C. Jackson, W.D. Gould, L. Evans, N. Chen, L. Zhang, S. Glasauer, D.T. Jiang - C 1s NEXAFS Study of Changes in Black Carbon Chemistry as a Result of Interaction
with Clay Minerals
K. Heymann, J. Lehmann, D. Solomon, T. Regier - Preliminary Studies on Chinese Bituminous Coal and Its Heterogeneous Composition
B.P. Yatzor, J.A. Gardella Jr. - Synchrotron-based Characterization of Heat-treated Archaeological Toolstone
E.C. Robertson, R. Blyth - Chemical Characterization of Diesel Soot using XANES
Mihir Patel and Pranesh B. Aswath
- Measuring Bio-magnetism with 30 nm Spatial Resolution: STXM-XMCD of Bacterial Magnetosomes
K. Lam, A.P. Hitchcock, J. Wang, C. Karunakaran, U. Lins, D. Bazylinski, M. Obst, G.D.W. Swerhone, J.R. Lawrence - Speciation of Sulphur Globules in a Single Bacterial Cell by Sulphur 2p X-ray Spectromicroscopy
C. Karunakaran, A. Prange, J. Wang, Y. Lu, A. P. Hitchcock, J. Hormes - Characterization of Wheat Grain Tissues by Soft X-ray Spectromicroscopy
C. Karunakaran, C. Gaillard, B. Bouchet, H. Gnaegi, A. . Buleon, J. Wang, A.P. Hitchcock - Imaging of Bone Quality
David M.L. Cooper, B. Bewer, T. W. Wysokinski, S. Wiebe, S. Kontulainen, L. D. Chapman - Study of Bone Degeneration in a Chicken Model: Comprehensive Analysis Using
Traditional Analytical Approach and Novel Synchrotron-based Techniques
A.A. Olkowski, D. Chapman, T.W. Wysokinski, L. Quaroni, B. Laarveld, C. Wojnarowicz - Diffraction Enhanced Imaging Studies to Develop an Animal Model for Growth Plate Fracture
Sheldon Wiebe, Bernhard H.J. Juurlink, Tomasz Wysokinski, Brian Bewer, David Cooper,
Edwin Zhang, Dean Chapman - Mid-Infrared Analysis of the Ancient Human Remains Found in a Glacier in British Columbia
C.R. Christensen, M. Jackson, J. Zhao, W. Vogl, M.V. Monsalve - Biomolecular Identification of Glioblastoma Multiforme by Synchrotron Mid- IR Spectromicroscopy
S. Kaiser Ali,YanJie Lu, Umashankar Das, Rajendra K. Sharma, Sheldon Wiebe, Kotoo Meguro, Venkat Sadanand, Daryl R. Fourney, Aleksander Vitali, Michael Kelly, Tim May, Jose Gomez and Eric Pellerin - Use of Synchrotron-Based Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Microspectroscopy to Determine
the Relative Quantity of Aromatic Lignin and Cellulosic Compounds of the Wheat Plant Stem
D. Damiran, P. Yu, A. Fodje, J.J. McKinnon, D.A. Christensen - Characterization of Microchemical Structure of Seed Endosperm within a Cellular Dimension among
Six Barley Varieties, Using Ultraspatially Resolved Synchrotron-Based Infrared Microspectroscopy
Na Liu, John McKinnon, Dave A. Christensen, Peiqiang Yu - Structural insights into the N-terminal domain of Ryanodine Receptors
P.A. Lobo, L. Kimlicka, C.C. Tung, and F. Van Petegem - The Substrate-bound Form of UDP-Galactopyranose Mutase
Sarathy Karunan Partha, Karin E. van Straaten, and David A. R. Sanders - Hexagonal Crystals of the PDZ Domain of ExeC, from the Type 2 Secretion System of Aeromonas hydrophila
B. Flath, P. Grochulski, S.P. Howard - The Structure of Rabbit PrPC: Clues into Species Barrier and Prion Disease Susceptibility
Braden Sweeting, Eric Brown, Avijit Chakrabartty, Emil F. Pai - Preliminary Structural Studies of an Integral Membrane Protein Involved in Vitamin E Biosynthesis
G.L. Orriss, A. Hrabowych and J. Stetefeld - Activation of Isoniazid (INH), an Anti-tubercular Pro-drug, by Catalase-Peroxidase KatG
B. Wiseman, X. Carpena, I. Fita, P.C. Loewen - Binding of 2-Amino-2-deoxycytidine-5-triphosphate to Norovirus Polymerase Induces
Rearrangement of the Active Site
Dmitry F. Zamyatkin, Francisco Parra, Angeles Machin, Pawel Grochulski, Kenneth K.-S. Ng
- High-Resolution FIR Spectra of the O-17 Isotopologue of Methanol for Astrophysical Applications
G. Moruzzi, R.J. Murphy, R.M. Lees, A. Predoi-Cross, B. Billinghurst - Spectroscopic Study of the v4 Band of CH3CF3 Using Synchrotron Based Fourier Transform Spectra
P. Leinweber, A. Predoi-Cross, A. Ibrahim, M. Herman, L. Fusina, G. Nivellini, G. Di Lonardo - High-resolution Rotation-Vibration Spectra of Pyrazole and Imidazole Obtained
with Far-infrared Synchrotron Radiation
J. G. Crouse, D. W. Tokaryk - Weeding the Cosmic Garden: Spectroscopy of Methanol and its Isotopologues
R.M. Lees, Li-Hong Xu, B.E. Billinghurst, D.R.T. Appadoo - Aging Process of Arsenic Local Structural Environment in an Fe(III)-As(V) Co-Precipitate System
N. Chen, D.T. Jiang, J.F. Le Berre, J.J. Mahoney, G.P. Demopoulos, J. W. Rowson, J. Cutler - GI-XAFS Apparatus at HXMA Beamline and Initial Results
K. Miller, N. Chen, W.F. Chen, C. Lavoie, D.T. Jiang - Arsenic Local Structural Environment in an Fe(III)-As(V) Co-Precipitate T-pH System
N. Chen, D.T. Jiang, J.F. Le Berre, J.J. Mahoney, G.P. Demopoulos, J. W. Rowson, J. Cutler - Determination of Cerium Speciation in Silicate Glasses Using M4,5-edge and L3-edge XANES
D.J. Smythe, J.M. Brenan, N.R. Bennett, G.S. Henderson, T. Regier - XANES and XPS Studies of the Structural and Electronic Properties
of Ligand Protected Platinum Nanoparticles
P.N. Duchesne, Z. Bayindir, and P. Zhang - Characterization of Structured Bimetallic Nanoparticle Catalysts
R. W. J. Scott, P. Dash, C. Calver - Boron K-edge XANES of LaB6 Single Crystal and Pulsed Laser Deposited (PLD) Film
Lijia Liu, Y. M. Yiu, T.K. Sham, Dongfang Yang, Lucia Zuin - Isothermal Investigation of Luminescent Nitride-Passivated Silicon Nanoclusters
P. R. J. Wilson, T. Roschuk, K. Dunn, E. Normand, E. Chelomentsev, J. Wojcik, P. Mascher - Silicon and Zirconium L-edge X-ray Absorption Near-Edge Spectroscopy
of Quaternary Pnictides ZrCuSiPn (Pn = Phosphorus, Arsenic)
P. E. R. Blanchard, R. G. Cavell, A. Mar - Investigation of Substituted Brownmillerite-Phase Oxides by XANES and PES
A.P. Grosvenor, F. Ramezanipour, S. Derakhshan, J.E. Greedan - Effects of Metal Substitution on the Electronic Structure of Mixed Ionic-Electronic
Conduction Materials
M.W. Gaultois, A.C. Sklad, A.P. Grosvenor - X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of LiMnO2 and Related Materials
H. Wadati, D.G. Hawthorn, T.Z. Regier, G. Chen, T. Tsuruhama, T. Hitosugi, T. Hasegawa, T. Mizokawa, A. Tanaka, G.A. Sawatzky - X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Bi3Mn4O12(NO3)
H. Wadati, D.G. Hawthorn, T.Z. Regier, N. Onishi, M. Azuma, Y. Shimakawa, T. Mizokawa, A. Tanaka, G.A. Sawatzky - X-ray Absorption Studies of La2NiMnO6 and La2CoMnO6 Thin Films
H. Wadati, D.G. Hawthorn, T.Z. Regier, M.P. Singh, K.D. Truong, P. Fournier, G.A. Sawatzky - Nitrogen Incorporation Induced Electronic Structure Change in 3D Aperiodic
Hierarchical Porous Carbon
J.G. Zhou, D.W. Wang, F. Li, T. K. Sham - Tracking Down the Cause of Electrical Heterogeneities of Al-doped ZnO Thin Films
J.L. Endrino, J. Andersson, M. Jullien, D. Horwat - XANES: A Probe of Nanowire Surface Oxide Thickness -XANES and XEOL Study of
Germanium Nanowires.
M.J. Ward, J.Y.P Ko, T.K. Sham - XANES Studies of Zn1-xMnxO Nanopowders
M.W. Murphy, L. Bovo, M. Ward, L. Armelao, and T.K. Sham - XEOL Studies of Ce3+/Na+-doped Barium Calcium Borate
J.Y. Peter Ko, Hongbin Liang, Tsun-Kong Sham - Time Resolved X-ray Excited Optical Luminescence (TRXEOL) of Nanoscaled ZnO
T.Z Regier, R. Sammynaiken, J.M. Vogt, M. Ward, T.K. Sham - Local Electronic Configuration of Co3+ in BiCoO3 Studied by Soft X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
T. Sudayama, Y. Wakisaka, K. Oka, M. Azuma, Y. Shimakawa, H. Wadati, G. A. Sawatzky,
D. G. Hawthorn, T. Z. Regier, T. Mizokawa - Enhanced Solubility of Europium in LaVO4 Thin Films Grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition
T. Higuchi, Y. Hotta, Y. Hikita, S. Maruyama, Y. Hayamizu, H. Akiyama, H. Wadati, D. G. Hawthorn, T. Z. Regier, R. I. R. Blyth, G. A. Sawatzky, and H. Y. Hwang - X-ray Absorption Study of NiGa2S4 with Negative Charge-Transfer Energy
Y. Wakisaka, T. Sudayama, T. Mizokawa, Y. Nambu, S. Nakatsuji, H. Wadati, G.A. Sawatzky, D.G. Hawthorn, T.Z. Regier - Electronic Structure of Ta2NiSe5 Studied by Soft X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
Y. Wakisaka, T. Sudayama, T. Mizokawa, N. Katayama, M. Nohara, H. Takagi, H. Wadati, G.A. Sawatzky, D.G. Hawthorn, T.Z. Regier - XAS-assisted materials design and characterization for growth of carbon nanostructures
directly on transition metals
Yuanshi Li, Akira Hirose - Characterization of Poly(L)lysine Polylactic Acid Polymer Blend With Potential Applications
as a Drug Delivery Material
D.D. Wells, J.A. Gardella Jr. - Effect of Humidity on Tin Oxide (SnO2) Coated Carbon Nanotubes Revealed
by in situ STXM Nano-Imaging
J. Wang, J.G. Zhou, H.T. Fang, T.K. Sham, C. Karunakaran, Y. Lu, G. Cooper, A.P. Hitchcock - Role of Ions in a Phase Segregation of Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal
K.V. Kaznatcheev, L. Tortora, O.D. Lavrentovich - X-ray Linear Dichroism and Defect Mapping of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes
E. Najafi, J. Wang, A.P. Hitchcock, J. Guan, S. Denommee, O. Bourne, B. Simard - Polychromatic X-ray Microdiffraction (PXM) of Local Stress Corrosion Cracking in Alloy 600
using the VESPERS Beamline
J. Chao, M. Suominen Fuller, S. Ramamurthy, N.S. McIntyre, and R. Feng
- Performance of the Hybrid Small-Gap In-Vacuum Undulator 08ID-1
J.D. Gorin, P. Grochulski, M. Sigrist, I. Blomqvist - High-Throughput Commercial Protein XRD at the CLS: Strengths and Weaknesses
of the CMCF Facility
R.L. Walter, G.M. Ranieri, A.M. Riggs, S.J. Schiltz - Sulphur-SAD Phasing at the Canadian Macromolecular Crystallography Facility
Shaunivan L. Labiuk, James G. Gorin, Michel Fodje, Pawel Grochulski - 3D Chemical and Elemental Imaging of Biological Samples by STXM Spectro-tomography
J. Wang, A.P. Hitchcock, C. Karunakaran, A. Prange, B. Franz, T. Harkness, Y. Lu, M. Obst, J. Hormes - The Photoemission Electron Microscope at the Canadian Light Source: An Overview
U.D. Lanke, A.P. Hitchcock and S.G. Urquhart - Bulk Sensitive X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Free of Self-Absorption Effects
A. J. Achkar, T. Z. Regier, H. Wadati, Y.-J. Kim, H. Zhang and D. G. Hawthorn - FTIR Functional Spectromicroscopy in Living Cells
T. Zlateva, L. Quaroni - The First Example of Photoacoustic Spectroscopy Using Coherent Synchrotron Radiation
B. E. Billinghurst, K. H. Michaelian, T. E. May, L. Dallin, M. de Jong - Multi-bunch Interference with Coherent Synchrotron Radiation
Brant Billinghurst, Tim May, Jack Bergstrom, Mark DeJong, Les Dallin - Using Peakaboo* XRF Spectral Analysis and Imaging Software with VESPERS Microbeams:
Mineralogical and Metallurgical Applications
N. Sherry, N. S. McIntyre, M. Suominen Fuller, R. Flemming, M. Izawa, P. McCausland, T. Kotzer, M. Schindler and R. Feng - Development of Remote Control and Streaming Data Interpretation Capabilities
on the VESPERS Beamline
D. Maxwell, D. Liu, E. Matias, N.S. McIntyre, M. Suominen Fuller, J. Qin and M. Bauer - SXRF Spectroscopy of Reference Materials using White Light and Broad Bandpass Excitation
N.S. McIntyre, M. Suominen Fuller, Nathaniel Sherry, and R. Feng - A Versatile Gas Phase Coincidence Spectrometer for use at the CLS
A. Padmanabhan, P. Thorn, T. Reddish, C. Ryan, L. Zuin, M. MacDonald - Diffraction-Enhanced X-ray Imaging of Biomaterial Scaffolds
N. Zhu, Y.J. Guan, X.B. Chen, L.D. Chapman, T.W. Wysokinski - Initial Experiments in Monoenergetic X-ray Scatter Imaging at BMIT
P.C. Johns, B.E. Bewer, L.D. Chapman, K. Hopp, T.W. Wysokinski - Bent Laue X-ray Fluorescence Imaging of Manganese in Biological Tissues
Y. Zhu, B. Bewer, H. Zhang, H. Nichol, W. Thomlinson, D. Chapman - High-Pressure Diffraction Developments at HXMA — Reducing Measured Compton Scattering
via Energy Selection
Jesse S. Smith and Serge Desgreniers
- Horizon-Dependent Effects of Nitric Acid Treated Boreal Forest Soil
P. Suryavanshi, S. Suryavanshi, M. Waseem, C. M. Minielly, D. Parekh, R. Peng, V. Glass, A. Son, W. Tu, J. M. Gregoire, A. Gillespie, T. Walker, T. Regier, C. Ryan, L. Zuin, R.I.R. Blyth - The Melt Sheet of the Manicouagan Basin
J. Delarosbil, S. Price-Williams, N Shelton, S. Kwasiborski, C. Billig, S. Briere, E. Hodgson, N. Pandelidis, J. Slyhuis-Landry, M. Tarantino, E. Vergnas, J. Patry, T. Walker, R.I.R. Blyth - The Effect of Silver Nano Particles on Pseudomonas aeruginosa
J. Warner, M. Mark, R. Tomiyama, G. Hooshmand, D. Stasiuk, T. Rioux, T. Walker, J. van Cleemput, A. Woytowich - Finding Evidence of UV Damage in Plant Tissue
T. Walker - Infrared Analysis of Yeast Headspace Gases
K. Dhimitri, J. Gao, C. Lian, C. Leung, Y. Nuh, D. Weng, S. Torrie, F. Almeida, B. Billinghurst, T. Walker
- Experimental Facilities Overview
E. Hallin - Mid Infrared Spectromicroscopy Beamline 01B1-1
T. May, T. Pedersen - Far-Infrared Beamline 02B1-1
B. E. Billinghurst, T. May - BioMedical Imaging and Therapy (BMIT) Facility: Beamlines 05ID-2 and 05B1-1
T. W. Wysokinski - Synchrotron Laboratory for Micro and Nano Devices (SyLMAND) Beamline 05B2-1
V. Subramanian - Hard X-ray Micro-Analysis (HXMA) Beamline 06ID-1
N. Chen, C.-Y. Kim, and W.-F. Chen - Soft X-ray Micro-characterization Beamline 06B1-1 (SXRMB)
Yongfeng Hu - Very Sensitive Elemental and Structural Probe Employing Radiation from a Synchrotron (VESPERS) Beamline 07B2-1
Renfei Feng - Canadian Macromolecular Crystallography Facility 08ID-1 Beamline
Pawel Grochulski - Canadian Macromolecular Crystallography Facility Beamline 08B1-1
Michel Fodje - Soft X-ray Spectromicroscopy (SM) Beamline 10ID-1
C. Karunakaran - Resonant Elastic and Inelastic Soft X-Ray Scattering (REIXS) Beamline 10ID-2
Feizhou He - Spherical Grating Monochromator (SGM) Beamline 11ID-1
T.Z Regier, D.K. Chevrier, G. Wright, L. Lin, R. I. R. Blyth, T.K. Sham - Variable Line Spacing Plane Grating Monochromator (VLS-PGM) Beamline 11ID-2
Christopher Ryan and Lucia Zuin
- Accelerator/Machine Status Report
Les Dallin - Health, Safety and Environment
M. Benmerrouche Accelerator/Machine Status Report
Les Dallin - Saskatoon Synchrotron Summer School &msash; S4IV
T. Walker, C. Ryan - The CLS User Services Office
Lavina Carter
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