Kevin Stone

X-ray scientist extraordinaire

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Bonus clip of an excellent capillary alignment!

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Getting ready to start the last set of robot samples of the run! Squeezing in those last few user samples before giving the robot a nice long break until October.

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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.

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Exciting times at @SLAClab and @SSRLnews! Finally putting the first (heavily attenuated) synchrotron X-rays on the @DECTRIS_News Eiger 4M at beamline 17-2. Thanks to @ExistentialChem and Ross Arthur for letting me push the button to take this image.

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All ready for the first user at the new @SSRLnews beamline at @SLAClab. Here we go!

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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 @lauraelenamundt and @LSchelhas got involved. If you are interested in strain in hybrid perovskite thin films, give it a look. https://t.co/mWZrslhpdn

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

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@LSchelhas @DrHorrell @AfSynchrotron @ausynchrotron @CHESS_user @esrfsynchrotron @synchroSOLEIL @SESAME_Jordan @BSP_en @desy @EuropeanXFEL @advlightsource @MAXIVLaboratory Situation remedied! Two birds, one Stone. Finally arrived today, excited for my morning coffee tomorrow.

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@LSchelhas @DrHorrell @AfSynchrotron @ausynchrotron @CHESS_user @esrfsynchrotron @synchroSOLEIL @SESAME_Jordan @BSP_en @desy @EuropeanXFEL @advlightsource @MAXIVLaboratory I’m a little embarrassed to say that I don’t actually have an SSRL mug. Going to remedy this tragic situation ASAP!

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@lauraelenamundt Apparently it was x-ray induced. So I have stumbled on the least relevant prep for perovskite films ever!

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I don’t always make perovskites. But when I do, I do it on a beamline.

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And apparently I can make them at room temperature? That’s a new one… 🧐

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@rekumar_ Yes, in situ GIWAXS, we should be able to do GISAXS with the same setup on another beamline.

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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.

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@perov_rhysearch All mounted on BL10-2!

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

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@igzo_rules Up to 1200C and various gases. Doing the initial heat tonight, 450C right now on the way to 1000!

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A really nice article by Cara. I’m very proud to be a part of this effort and helping to represent @SSRLnews! Reshaping the World of Research Through Remote Experimentation #NSLSII https://t.co/2qqkvOXN3S via @BrookhavenLab

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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.

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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!