Table 1.
List of synchrotron soft X-ray beamlines suitable for research on metabolism. In the table are indicated some specifics for each beamline. The application field refers to previous publications correlated to metabolism.
| Beamline | Facility | Country | Available Techniques | Spot Size/Spatial Resolution # [μm] |
Energy Range [eV] | Application |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11.0.2 | Advanced Light Source (ALS) | USA | STXM, μ-XANES | 0.025 | 160–2000 | Life/Health science, Microbiology |
| MYSTIIC @EMIL * | Bessy II | Germany | STXM | 0.025# | 250–1500 | |
| SM | Canadian Light Source (CLS) | Canada | STXM, μ-XRF and μ-XANES | 0.03 | 130–2700 | Microbiology, Environment/Agriculture |
| I08 | Diamond | UK | STXM, μ-XRF and μ-XANES | 0.02# | 250–4200 | Life/Health science |
| TwinMic | Elettra | Italy | STXM, μ-XRF and μ-XANES | 0.1 | 400–2200 | Environment/Agriculture, Microbiology, Life/Health science |
| ID21 | European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) | France | STXM, μ-XRF and μ-XANES | 0.07 × 0.03 | 2100–9200 | Environment/Agriculture |
| SoftiMAX * | MAX IV | Sweden | STXM, μ-XRF and μ-XANES | 0.06 | 275–2500 | |
| TES | National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS II) | USA | μ-XRF and μ-XANES | 2 | 2000–5500 | Environment/Agriculture, Life/Health science |
| Phoenix | Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) | Switzerland | μ-XRF and μ-XANES | 2.5 | 400–2000 | Environment/Agriculture, Microbiology, Life/Health science |
| Pollux | Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) | Switzerland | STXM | 0.02# | 250–1600 | Life/Health science |
| 10A | Pohang Light Source (PLS) | Korea | STXM, μ-XANES | 0.025# | 100–2000 | Life/Health science |
| BL08U1-A | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) | China | STXM, μ-XANES | 0.03# | 250–2000 | Life/Health science, Environment/Agriculture |
| Demeter * | Solaris | Poland | STXM | 10–2000 | ||
| Hermes | Soleil | France | STXM, μ-XANES | 0.025 | 70–2500 | Microbiology |
| 14-3b | Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) |
USA | μ-XRF and μ-XANES | 5 | 2100–5000 | Environment/Agriculture |
| 27A * | Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) | Taiwan | 0.03# | 90–2500 | ||
| BL4U | UVSOR | Japan | STXM | 0.03 | 50–770 | Microbiology, Life/Health science |
* these beamlines have started to operate recently or are under design or construction.