[RASMB] SAUCE - x-ray optics for the AUC

[Olwyn Byron]

Dear RASMB Colleagues,

We have been invited to submit a full bid to the UK Science and 
Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) to fund SAUCE - a hybrid 
instrument in which an AUC (the Spin Analytical Centrifugal Fluid 
Analyser (CFA)) is introduced into the I22 small angle x-ray 
scattering (SAXS) beamline at the UK Diamond synchrotron.

SAUCE will offer the following advantages to the user:

1. Aggregates will be cleared from the sample in situ; scattering 
data will be of a higher quality.

2. AUC modality will permit the separation or significant enrichment 
of species in an interacting system; scattering curves (and thence 
molecular envelopes) will be determined for the individual species.

3. It will be possible to acquire AUC and SAXS data simultaneously.

We are writing to you now to ask if you would be interested in using 
SAUCE and would accordingly agree to being included in the list of 
beneficiaries?

If so, please reply to this e-mail by return (and certainly before 24 March).

Many thanks and best wishes,

Olwyn Byron (University of Glasgow, UK)
Tom Laue (University of New Hampshire, US)
Nick Terrill (Diamond Synchrotron, UK)