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Scientific and engineering research on soft materials requires precise structural analysis to understand their hierarchical and fluctuating nature. A new beamline, the BL03XU frontier soft-material beamline, that is dedicated to scattering experiments on soft materials was recently installed at the third-generation synchrotron facility, SPring-8, in Japan. The BL03XU uses an in-vacuum undulator, and the photon flux of the obtained X-ray can reach 1013 photons sec−1, with an energy resolution of ΔE/E≈2 × 10−4 at 12.4 keV. The BL03XU has two experimental hutches: a front one that is used for grazing-incidence scattering experiments and a second one for transmitting scattering experiments, which enables simultaneous small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering. The present paper introduces details about the instrument and some of the first scattering data measured at BL03XU, which reveals its cutting-edge design and high level of performance.
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We thank the 19 corporations comprising the FSBL consortium that funded the FSBL construction: Asahi Kasei Corporation; Kwansei Gakuin University; Canon; Kuraray; Showa Denko KK; Sumitomo Chemical; Sumitomo Rubber Industries; Sumitomo Bakelite; Denso Corporation; Toyobo; Toray Industries; Nitto Denko Corporation; Bridgestone Corporation; Mitsui Chemicals; Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation; Mitsubishi Rayon; Yokohama Rubber; Teijin Limited; and DIC Corporation. We also thanks to the many academic and industrial members who participated in the construction of the FSBL.
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Masunaga, H., Ogawa, H., Takano, T. et al. Multipurpose soft-material SAXS/WAXS/GISAXS beamline at SPring-8. Polym J 43, 471–477 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/pj.2011.18
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