Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

Dance of the molecules: New methods of producing tailor-made materials

A Hamburg research team is paving the way for new methods of producing tailor-made materials: for the first time, the scientists from DESY NanoLab and the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) have deciphered the collective arrangement of organic acid molecules on an iron oxide surface at ... more

Plasma acceleration: It’s all in the mix

The LUX team at DESY is celebrating not just one but two milestones in the development of innovative plasma accelerators. The scientists from the University of Hamburg and DESY used their accelerator to test a technique that allows the energy distribution of the electron beams produced to b ... more

The egg in the X-ray beam

Using DESY's X-ray light source PETRA III, a research team has analysed the structural changes in eggs during cooking. The study shows how the proteins in chicken egg whites unfold and crosslink during heating to form a solid structure. The innovative investigation method is interesting for ... more