Agilent has shipped the 300th and 301st Supernova X-ray crystallography systems to the Chemical Crystallography Laboratory at the University of Oxford to teach modern X-ray diffraction techniques.
The dual-wavelength system was manufactured by Oxford Diffraction, part of Varian, which was acquired by Agilent in May 2010.
The systems will be used in a range of cutting-edge research projects and to teach modern X-ray diffraction techniques to undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Dr David J Watkin, director of the Chemical Crystallography Laboratory at Oxford, said: 'Our X-ray diffractometers run seven days a week, 24 hours a day, including Christmas and New Year.
'We interact with a large number of research groups, and a high throughput of top quality work is important to us.
'These new systems will enable us to do more experiments in the same amount of time, and to undertake more challenging work than can be achieved with our current instruments,' he added.
