Synchrotron radiation

The Synchrotron Radiation Source research programme reported from the Daresbury Laboratory has employed the experimental techniques of small angle scattering, protein crystallography, surface diffraction, powder diffraction and x-ray absorption spectroscopy. These have been applied to such problems as corrosion in steels, kinetics in cell biology, the structure of viruses, sulphur disruption of metal surfaces, metal-semiconductor interfaces and the electronic and vibrational structure of molecules. (UK)