Hanna and Sebastian from our department joined a group of three scientist from the Department of Chemistry to Grenoble for a geeky weekend of small-angle x-ray scattering experiments. Instead of enjoying the sunny and hot summer weather in the picturesque French town, they spend their time in France staring at liquids flow in a tiny capillary and appreciating the beauty of small-angle x-ray scatter plots.
Let's see what Sebastian was up to during those 48 hours in Grenoble!
0 hours: Entering the bioSAXS beamline at ESRF. So how are we supposed to find the right beamline in here..?
1 hour: Accredited and ready for the next 47 hours of SAXS experiments.
9 hours: Loading up a new batch of samples into the SAXS instrument.
18 hours: Team Biomaterials volunteered for the night shift. We found one other half-awake scientist still up and running experiments at a neighbouring beamline when going for late night/early morning leg stretch at 2:50 AM.
37 hours: We got a quick glimpse of the sunset after dinner. But instead of spending time admiring the beautiful scenery in Grenoble...
38 hours: ...we were all sitting at the beamline preparing our samples and planning the experiments for the final 10 hours.
42 hours: Time to get some coffee and check the beam current.
44 hours: Still managed to be fascinated by the results at 5:38 AM.
46 hours: Bedtime for Team Biomaterials, time for one last experiment for Team Chemistry.
