Enclosed Gas Heating Cell in the Beamline Vacuum Chamber

The X-ray Gas Heating sample holder platform is designed to image gas-phase reactions and transformations in high-resolution synchrotron beamline chambers that require the sample to be in vacuum. Our patented precision-machined chip loading mechanism operates without screws, facilitating reproducible sample loading, self-aligning windows, stable imaging under gas flow up to 2 bar and heating beyond 1000 °C without the need for drift correction. This simplifies the hardware learning curve, workflows, and micrograph acquisition, guaranteeing reproducible sample preparation and in-situ synchrotron methodologies.

Advantages:

• Custom-fitted stage and port hardware for any beamline vacuum chamber
• Fully user-replaceable PEEKSIL gas tubing for easy cleaning
• Gas delivery systems with 1 to 8 channels plus dedicated purge line
• Heating and gas delivery software with unlimited license for unrestricted experimentation  
• Compatible with TEM, SEM, and X-ray microscopy workflows using cross-platform microfabricated chips.
• Quick delivery of a broad selection of chip options for uninterrupted experimentation

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Designed for Advanced High-resolution Synchrotron Gas-phase Dynamics Research

Advance fundamental understanding of heterogeneous catalysis performance and degradation, corrosion, thin film deposition and dissolution, nanoparticle dynamics, temperature-dependent reactions, and redox of nanostructures in a range of gaseous environments.

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Understand Mechanisms Behind Gas-phase Transformations

The transformations that occur at gas-solid interfaces are often microscale and highly transient, but nanostructure design and performance is highly dependent on the mechanisms that drive these transformations. The X-ray Gas Heating sample holder applies stimuli such as temperature, electrical bias, light exposure, and gas composition and pressure changes to uncover reaction pathways, structural transformations, and degradation mechanisms to develop and characterize the next generation of functional catalysts, alloys and nanostructures.