An international group of researchers from Germany and France have investigated structural changes of industrially relevant ferroelectric materials on a time scale down to 50 microseconds. Ferroelectrics find a multitude of applications as actuators, sensors, or data storage devices.
The ALBA Synchrotron and the CERCA Institute (Research Centers of Catalonia) have signed today a collaboration agreement to regulate CERCA visiting researchers who develop long-term scientific and technological projects at ALBA.
Till November 17th, you can visit the exhibition { }, an artistic project of Pep Vidal, with the collaboration of the ALBA Synchrotron. The aim of { } is to create "nothingness" and to isolate it forever. The ultra-high vacuum capsule, produced with the help of ALBA, becomes a system in which the possibilities of interaction are limited as much as possible.
The ALBA Synchrotron and the Spanish Synchrotron User Association (AUSE) have prepared a survey addressed to synchrotron users. The aim of this survey is to know the present and future scientific fields of interest of the Spanish ALBA synchrotron light source community.
The ALBA Synchrotron opens today its 3rd call for beamtime proposals. The experiments will be performed from April to December 2014 in any of the seven beamlines of ALBA. The deadline to submit a proposal is November 4th 2013.
An international collaboration among researchers from Nanjing University (China), the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (Germany) and the ALBA Synchrotron (Spain) has discovered new aspects regarding the microscopic magnetic mechanisms in cobalt nanostructures. This research will contribute to a better understanding of the magnetic exchange bias systems used for magnetic information storage devices, enabling the production of smaller hard disks with a higher information density. This is the first published paper with data collected at BOREAS beamline.
In conjunction with UmbrellaID.org and ICAT workshops and within the framework of the PaNdata collaboration project, ALBA Synchrotron held a project meeting on September 9th and 10th to discuss the open data infrastructure used in European photon and neutron laboratories. More than 30 attendees from seven different European countries participated in the meeting.
From September 3rd to 6th, ALBA Synchrotron held its first User Meeting and the VI National Meeting of the Spanish Synchrotron User Association (AUSE). During this event, researchers from different scientific areas have shown first results obtained in ALBA and have discussed the applications and advantages that synchrotron light has on Spanish science.
Next November 14th and 15th, ALBA Synchrotron organizes a workshop with the aim of describing the available tools and the analytic potential of the current ALBA beamlines. This workshop will take place in ALBA's facilities and has no registration fees. There is a limited attendance of 50 participants.
From September 3rd to 6th, more than a hundred researchers are meeting at ALBA Synchrotron to attend the VI National Meeting of the Spanish Synchrotron User Association (AUSE) and the 1st ALBA User Meeting. During the week, researchers will have the opportunity to showcase their results and discuss about the different applications of synchrotron light.
Professors Julio Bacarizo and Ana Cámara-Artigas, from the University of Almería, have resolved at atomic resolution crystal structures of the Thr98Asp c-Src SH3 domains mutant in complex with the high affinity peptide APP12. These protein structures are the first solved at atomic resolution in Alba. Information obtained at XALOC beamline could have implications in pathologies such as cancer, AIDS or osteoporosis.
From October 1st, Joan Casas will be the new Head of the Engineering Division at ALBA Synchrotron.
The American Crystallographic Association (ACA) has selected professor John R. Helliwell, chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) of ALBA, to receive the 2014 ACA Patterson Award for his pioneering contributions to the development of the instrumentation, methods and applications of synchrotron radiation in macromolecular crystallography.
Accelerator science and technology has considerably grown in Spain in the last years, resulting in the development of national facilities, like the ALBA synchrotron, and in key contributions to the main international collaborations, like CERN, ILC, IFMIF, or XFEL. ALBA has hosted the first meeting of Spanish experts on accelerators.
The mayor of Barcelona, Xavier Trias, has visited today ALBA's facilities. During the visit, he has been accompanied by the chairman of the Executive Commission of ALBA, Ramon Pascual, the director of ALBA, Caterina Biscari, and the Scientific Director, Miguel Angel Garcia Aranda.
Next June 3rd and 4th, a two-day workshop including lectures and hands-on tutorials on the use of CTM4XAS for X-ray spectroscopy (XAS, XMCD, XMLD) simulations. The lectures and tutorials will be given by Dr. Cinthia Piamonteze (SLS).
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From May 1st David Fernandez is the new Division Head of the Computer and Controls Division.
The structures obtained at BL13-XALOC correspond to the complexes of LC8 homodimers (yellow and orange) with the phosphorylated (right, PDB ID 3ZKF) and non-phosphorylated (left PDB ID 3ZKE) versions of a Nek9 peptide.
Anna Rosell from the Neurovascular Research group at VHIR, Anna Roig from the Group of Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) and Eva Pereiro, responsible of the ALBA synchrotron light source, have obtained the first images of human endothelial stem cells by Transmission Soft X-ray Microscopy at ALBA Synchrotron in Cerdanyola del Vallès.
ALBA Synchrotron achieves with this agreement with Henkel one of his main targets: collaboration with industry based on research and development at the highest scientific and technological level. Henkel is the first company signing a R&D collaboration agreement with ALBA regarding industrial applications of synchrotron techniques. With this agreement Henkel reinforces its already proved capacity on R&D and decides to support the ALBA Synchrotron capacities.
On January, CERN and ALBA have signed two collaboration agreements.
ALBA, the Spanish Synchrotron Radiation Facility, held on past 15th of December its first Open Day. More than 1000 visitors mostly coming from Barcelona and the sorroundings neighbouring, arrived to the laboratory, on a sunny Mediterranean Winter day, and many hundreds more had to be postponed for the next events.
