iFuelTracker follows every research material across the full journey between an industry partner's lab and the synchrotron — scanned at each station, custody logged to the person, monitored live. Nothing gets lost before beamtime.
Every material moves through the same seven stages. A scan at each station stamps its location, time and handler — the record travels with the sample, not a spreadsheet.
Registered at the partner site
Shipped toward DESY
Logged into the sample store
Mounted in the P02.2 hutch
Diffraction data acquired
Shipped back to the partner
Closed loop, data attached
The journey ends where the science happens: DESY's P02.2 at PETRA III, where materials are held under simultaneous high pressure and temperature. Every figure below is the beamline's own published specification.
Specifications: DESY Photon Science — P02.2 Extreme Conditions Beamline
Beamtime is scarce and samples are irreplaceable. iFuelTracker removes the guesswork about where a material is, who handled it, and which data belongs to it.
QR scans at designated points bind a sample to a location and stage in one tap — receiving, storage, beamline, return.
Beamline staff see everything; industry partners see only their own materials. Sign in by User ID — no shared inboxes.
Each status change and scan records the person who did it, building an auditable chain of custody for every sample.
A self-refreshing wallboard shows what is where, right now — built for the control room during a beamtime run.
Upload measurement files against the sample; partners retrieve exactly their results, designed for real object storage.
A progressive web app installs on any phone or tablet — the same tool for scanning in the lab and watching from a desk.
The samples this platform tracks are studied under extreme pressure and temperature at PETRA III — where the atomic structure that governs real-world performance is resolved.
DESY's IFuEL project, a €14 M BMFTR "Fusion 2040" programme led by Franz Kärtner, develops laser technology for inertial confinement fusion and will assess plasma-facing materials at PETRA III under fusion-relevant conditions. Extreme-conditions beamlines are exactly where such materials are characterised.
PETRA III has been used to watch special alloys absorb and release hydrogen in situ — resolving how the atoms rearrange as the material charges. Tracking these samples reliably through storage, beamline and return is what keeps such studies reproducible.
Register a material once and iFuelTracker carries its identity, location and data through the entire beamline journey.
Launch iFuelTracker →Full view of every sample, station and partner. Move, scan, measure, attach data and manage collaborators.
Enter workspaceSee only your own materials, follow their status live and download the measurement data that belongs to you.
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