{"id":225072,"date":"2025-11-14T01:18:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/tabletop-particle-accelerator-could-transform-medicine-and-materials-science"},"modified":"2025-11-14T01:18:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:18:38","slug":"tabletop-particle-accelerator-could-transform-medicine-and-materials-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/tabletop-particle-accelerator-could-transform-medicine-and-materials-science","title":{"rendered":"Tabletop particle accelerator could transform medicine and materials science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tabletop-particle-accelerator-could-transform-medicine-and-materials-science.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I have found in a new research project.<\/p>\n<p>The way that intense X-rays are currently produced is through a facility called a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/synchrotron+light+source\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">synchrotron light source<\/a>. These are used to study materials, drug molecules and biological tissues. Even the smallest existing synchrotrons, however, are about the size of a football stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Our research, which is published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/accepted\/10.1103\/cnym-16hc\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Physical Review Letters<\/i><\/a>, shows how tiny structures called carbon nanotubes and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser light<\/a> could generate brilliant X-rays on a microchip. Although the device is still at the concept stage, the development has the potential to transform medicine, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials+science\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials science<\/a> and other disciplines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I have found in a new research project. The way that intense X-rays are currently produced is through a facility called a synchrotron light source. These are used to study materials, drug molecules and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,4,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225072","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}