XRD enclosed chamber

XRD ENCLOSED CHAMBER:

This is an enclosed chamber for growing crystalline samples inside an X-ray diffractometer in reflection geometry, designed to investigate the crystallization process in real-time. This chamber allows wide-angle diffraction measurements in the angular range 0° - 160°.

The inner atmosphere of the evaporation and yielding better and larger crystals. This is particularly critical for nanoparticles superlattices (for which the design was specifically developed) as well as proteins or other difficult to crystallize compounds (not tested with the current design).

The chamber must be covered with a Kapton film, transparent to the X-rays. Its particular semicircular geometry makes the X-ray beam always perpendicular to the Kapton, minimising the parasite scattering and absorption phenomena.

Depending on the 3D printing material and on the Kapton, the chamber will be compatible with many different solvents. We only tested PLA, which turned out to be compatible