X-ray Methods

X-rays go through most materials more easily than visible light. That's why dentists use x-rays to check the health state of our teeth. No, we do not do that in our lab. But we do have a state-of-the-art x-ray source capable of revealing the mysteries of soft materials such as biological membranes, DNA, and more generally speaking, organic polymers. Now why do we need you, assuming you are an interested student? The x-ray pictures that we get, are nothing like the dentists'. In fact, they look particularly odd to the non-expert. That is because the picture that we see is the result of a complicated mathematical transformation that the x-rays suffer in their way to the detector. Special mathematical approaches are then needed to make sense of the measured X-ray image.

Apractical approach to learn how:

...electromagnetic radiation (x-rays) are produced.
...electromagnetic radiation interacts with matter.
...wave interference occurs and how it is detected.
...x-rays literally extend our vision.