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SCSB Crystallography Facilities
The Center has recently installed new x-ray diffraction and solution scattering instrumentation for the lab. The new equipment starts with the Rigaku Ultimate Home Lab® which comprises the unsurpassed high-brilliance FR-E++DW Superbright x-ray generator, with the industry standard RAXIS-IV++ crystallography system with both Cu and Cr optics. In addition, we are acquiring the innovative Rigaku BioSAXS-1000, the first SAXS instrument dedicated to biological research in the southern mid-western states, once again marking UTMB as a leader in structural biology resources.
The SCSB X-ray Crystallography resources currently consists of two x-ray area detector systems. The first area detector is a Rigaku R-AXIS-IV++ dual 30cm Imaging Plate detector mounted on the Rigaku FR-E++DW Superbright x-ray generator. The second detector is a Bruker SMART 2K CCD, which can reach upto 0.84 Å resolution. For enhanced data we have available a choice of sample cooling systems. Both systems are equipped with a Cryo Industries of America CRYOCOOLER. A 4 °C Cold Air refrigerated cooling system is available for samples which cannot be frozen, or do not require freezing.
The Rigaku BioSAXS-1000 2D-Kratky camera is mounted on the left port of our Rigaku FR-E++DW Superbright x-ray generator.
This camera offers unsurpassed solution scattering data for macromolecular samples. For more information visit our
SAXNS site.
Instrument scheduling, for qualified users, is available online.