Becoming a SAXS Facilities User
The following steps are applicable to anyone who would like to become a user of the CCR SAXS facilities. All users are required to follow the Facility User Polices.
The CCR SAXS Facility provides access to Synchrotron SAXS/WAXS at the 12 ID-B beamline of Advanced Photon Source (APS), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) through a Partner User Program (PUP). The CCR SAXS Facility has 9 shifts (eight hours per shift) beamtime per month excluding January, May and September which is the maintenance time of the beamline. The CCR SAXS Facility also provides access to in-house SAXS instruments. Currently, the CCR SAXS facility is open to intramural and extramural researchers free of charge. The following steps are applicable to anyone who would like to become a user of the CCR SAXS facilities.
If you are interested in becoming a user, please have your principal investigator contact Drs. Yun-Xing Wang and Lixin Fan. The request should contain a brief summary of the scientific project and the goals of the SAXS experiments. Principal Investigators (or Supervisors) of users must be informed of and authorize the planned use of the NCI SAXS Facility resource. The following is the contact information:
Dr. Lixin Fan
Senior Scientist
Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.
NCI Advanced Technology Research Facility
8560 Progress Drive, Rm. B3340
Frederick, MD, 21701-4907
Phone: (301) 846-1362 Office
Fax: (301) 846-6231
E-mail: lixin.fan@nih.gov
Dr. Yun-Xing Wang
Senior Principal Investigator
Head, SAXS Core Facility
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute
NCI Advanced Technology Research Facility
8560 Progress Drive, Rm. B3350
Frederick, MD 21701-4907
Phone: (301) 846-5985
E-mail: wangyunx@mail.nih.gov
Synchrotron SAXS/WAXS Users
With approval, you will be added to a user list and get an email notification regarding the APS beamtime. For those who wish to send students, postdoctoral fellows, or staff to collect their own data at the APS beamline and who have no badge to APS, they should register as new users of APS through their webpage at https://www.aps.anl.gov/Users-Information. You will need to get a badge to ANL and complete the online training required by APS before you can work at the beamline. The APS user office will guide you through this procedure once you registered as an APS user. You should register at least a month earlier before your planned trip to the beamline. To request synchrotron beamtime, please refer to User Policies.
In-house SAXS Instrument Users
Once you become a user, you could ship or drop off your samples and the core staff would help to run the measurements. For users who want to participate in data collection or collect data by themselves, they should become “authorized users” in order to work at the SAXS instrument. You need to fill out and sign the “X-ray Program User Application Form,” get a dosimeter, and receive operation and safety training before you can work at the SAXS instrument. For more information and assistance, please contact:
Dr. Lixin Fan
Senior Scientist
Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.
NCI Advanced Technology Research Facility
8560 Progress Drive, Rm. B3350
Frederick, MD, 21701-4907
Phone: (301) 846-1362 Office
Fax: (301) 846-6231
E-mail: lixin.fan@nih.gov