{"id":357683,"date":"2017-08-11T09:29:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T13:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=8765ee8499dce5ad18c8a38af07e5eb0"},"modified":"2017-08-11T09:29:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T13:29:38","slug":"new-devices-to-control-x-rays-are-less-expensive-faster-to-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=357683","title":{"rendered":"New devices to control X-rays are less expensive, faster to make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a less expensive and more efficient way of controlling x-ray beams used to study the intricate details of batteries, solar cells, proteins and all manner of materials. The new beam-shaping devices, invented by Brookhaven mechanical engineer Sushil Sharma, can be made from a single piece of copper, which dramatically reduces the time and complexity of their construction \u2013 and their cost. It&#8217;s no wonder that x-ray light sources around the world, including Brookhaven Lab&#8217;s National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), are beginning to choose the new designs over their more complex and expensive predecessors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a less expensive and more efficient way of controlling x-ray beams used to study the intricate details of batteries, solar cells, proteins and all manner of materials. The new beam-shaping devices, invented by Brookhaven mechanical engineer Sushil Sharma, can be made from a single piece of copper, which dramatically reduces the time and complexity of their construction &ndash; and their cost. It&#8217;s no wonder that x-ray light sources around the world, including Brookhaven Lab&#8217;s National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), are beginning to choose the new designs over their more complex and expensive predecessors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357684,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357683\/revisions\/357684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}