It will offer a unique platform of 69 infrastructures, including synchrotron, electron microscopy, laser, ion beam, neutron, clean room, and soft matter research infrastructures as well as high performance computing. ALBA is one of the partners of the project. The kick-off meeting took place in Hamburg (Germany) on 14-15 March 2024.
Lithium and Sodium-ion batteries are under investigation in the framework of the in-house research at the CLÆSS beamline of the ALBA Synchrotron, in collaboration with international partners since 2014, to contribute to the worldwide research of new materials allowing the global economy change toward net zero CO2 emission. Recently, the research team reported the effect of nickel for iron substitution in the battery cathode on their electrochemical properties, applying a new experimental approach.
One more year the ALBA Synchrotron held the HERCULES European School. All week from 11th to 15th March was fully dedicated to the 20 young researchers from all over the world coming to learn the different techniques we have in our synchrotron.
Representatives of the European Regional Development Funds (ERDF) have visited the ALBA Synchrotron on the occasion of the Follow-up Committee of the ERDF Program of Catalonia 2021-2027.
An international research team led by scientists from INMA and CFM in collaboration with the BOREAS beamline of ALBA achieve two-dimensional ferromagnetism on a metal-organic framework for the first time, a result that has been sought for the last two decades. This metal-organic network exhibits huge perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, large remanence at finite temperatures and a much larger coercive field than any other reported two-dimensional system, prone to be implemented as the thinnest magnet ever observed so far.
