{"id":212834,"date":"2025-04-30T01:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T06:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/synchrotron-in-a-closet-bringing-powerful-3d-x-ray-microscopy-to-smaller-labs"},"modified":"2025-04-30T01:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T06:17:59","slug":"synchrotron-in-a-closet-bringing-powerful-3d-x-ray-microscopy-to-smaller-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/synchrotron-in-a-closet-bringing-powerful-3d-x-ray-microscopy-to-smaller-labs","title":{"rendered":"Synchrotron in a closet: Bringing powerful 3D X-ray microscopy to smaller labs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synchrotron-in-a-closet-bringing-powerful-3d-x-ray-microscopy-to-smaller-labs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, researchers can study the microstructures inside metals, ceramics and rocks with X-rays in a standard laboratory without needing to travel to a particle accelerator, according to a study led by University of Michigan engineers.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-58255-x\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>The new technique makes 3D X-ray diffraction\u2014known as 3DXRD\u2014more readily accessible, potentially enabling quick analysis of samples and prototypes in academia and industry, as well as providing more opportunities for students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, researchers can study the microstructures inside metals, ceramics and rocks with X-rays in a standard laboratory without needing to travel to a particle accelerator, according to a study led by University of Michigan engineers. The work is published in the journal Nature Communications. The new technique makes 3D X-ray diffraction\u2014known as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}