Congrats to Nattamai Bhuvanesh! Nattamai is the winner of
the prestigious 2025 Bruker Diamond Challenge
The challenge was to collect and
refine the structure of diamond (a notoriously difficult
crystal structure). From all of the samples
submitted Nattamai's crystal structure was deemed the best.
Nattamai beat out all other competitors including
synchrotrons and metal jet sources.
"And the Winner Is...
Nattamai Bhuvanesh. The top dataset, collected with an Ag
microfocus source and Dectris Eiger CdTe detector, scored an
impressive 43 points and showed off incredible quality in
all areas evaluated. Silver (Ag) source with Eiger CdTe
detector - 43 points (100%, 0.294Å, Rpim=0.64%, R1=0.93%,
0.24/-0.19)."
The prize, other than bragging rights
(BRAGG) is a 5-carat VVS1 Moissanite.
May 5... The Joint Prairie View A&M University
and TAMU Workshop was a big success.
Thanks to
Department of Chemistry and the College of Science Diversity
Funding for a great workshop
12/16/2021 X-raY facilities are open
to all Texas A&M Users begining 1/2/2022
New users must be sponsored by a
TAMU Principal Investigator.
New users must complete
all on-line radiation safety training.
New users must undertake site training
Training for
ALL new users will begin January 12 2022,
room 2408 Chemistry @
10:00am
Training will continue bi-weekly for the
Spring Semester.
AggieRad is now open. Please check the
AggieRad website
Zoom course recording #1
Crysalis Pro
Please contact
us if you have any questions.
Joseph H. Reibenspies, Ph.D
