Category Archives: Literature
Nothing new here
So it seems science has beaten us to the punch once again. Remember last week’s optimistic story on how you can make better use of your (measurement) time? Turns out it has been done (at least once) before. The year was 1993, the authors were M. Steinhart and J. Pleštil, and they did the same [...]
capillary self-absorption paper highlight, and new video
Dear scatterers, Those of you who have been reading this weblog for a while now, may remember the calculation of the sample self-absorption correction for plate-like samples. The result of this was a straightforward equation which could be used to correct the scattering of strongly absorbing samples (>30%) with a plate-like geometry. It was mentioned [...]
A compact pneumatic fibre tensile stage – publication
It is with pleasure that I can announce the publication of another fibre-related work, right here (The electronic reprint will be made available after December on this site). [edit: now available from this page] This tensile stage was the result of me not wanting to install a massive Instron stage at a beamline, nor did I [...]
More statistics and change of job
Hello dear readers, As a followup on my previous story, a colleague of mine sent me this paper that helps explain the standard deviation, standard error and confidence intervals. A useful, and funny read: Click here. The second noteworthy item is that I have, as of November 1st, started working at the National Institute for [...]
Careful when using Molybdenum radiation sources
Just a quick heads-up. There’s a chance of 0.5% low-energy contamination when using molybdenum or silver radiation sources, even when using focusing devices, according to Macchi et al (doi:10.1107/S0021889811016232). While this is a low contamination level, it may have measurable effects in small-angle scattering of soft, low-absorption samples (simulations may follow soon). One way of [...]
Book review: Ben Goldacre’s “Bad Science”
Hi all. Last week-end, while visiting friends nearby, a copy of the book “bad science” by Ben Goldacre was dropped in my lap. Having read the occasional post on his weblog (http://www.badscience.net/), I had already planned to get it. So I started reading the book with rather high expectations. (This copy, if I did not misunderstand [...]
One more paper
Do not fret, for I have more software (with documentation!) lined up for presentation on this website soon, but I am still working on the documentation. Please bear with me as I shamelessly promote another publication of mine that came out just days ago. The paper is available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2010.07.045 It concerns curious observations of [...]
Read Ruland and more free reading (textbooks!)
Catching up to current affairs, I stumbled across this beauty. Now, I find this paper starts a little bit chaotic, but very quickly we come across some very useful equations indeed, and a link between the used equation for their analysis of phase transitions in fluids, and various other equations such as the Ornstein-Zernike structure [...]
Holiday reading, watching and writing.
Hi all, I found some interesting papers for you, and a talk. Let me start with the talk. It is a TED talk (naturally) concerning TED talks. This nice introspective talk is actually of interest for all of us as it gives a few pointers to the set-up of excellent (and terrible) talks, with a [...]
Shameless plug of my own paper
Dear all, the reason I have been silent for a few weeks was that I was waiting for this: Herewith (with a little bit of pride), I would like to present the first paper published as a result of my Ph.D. research. This groundbreaking paper is naturally essential reading for all working in the fields [...]