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Agreement with Portugal for attracting and training users 
A collaboration agreement was signed between ALBA and Portugal, in the presence of Science ministers from Portugal and Spain and the Catalan minister of Business and Knowledge to encourage the Portuguese scientific community using the ALBA Synchrotron and also training Portuguese postdoctoral researchers at ALBA.

Available the Strategy Plan

The document has been positively evaluated and approved by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. It includes a report with a general description of the previous period and a detailed analysis of objectives and strategies for the coming years. 

Want to discover ALBA's hidden corners?

Take a virtual tour to see how the tunnel of accelerators and beamlines look like. You can get a 360º vision of the facility. 

HIGHLIGHTS

A methodology for producing better additives for concrete   
BL11-NCD-SWEET 
 
Using synchrotron light, BASF chemical company together with scientists from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and the ALBA Synchrotron have determined how clays and superplasticizers interact in cement pastes. These results pave the way for improving the design of new superplasticizers more resilient to the clays that usually accompany the sands used in concretes as aggregates. 
Urea substitutes noble metal catalysts for the photodegradation of organic polllutants   
BL01-MIRAS
 
A new laser-based technique developed by the Institute of Materials Science (ICMAB-CSIC) uses urea to enable a more efficient, one-step production of hybrid graphene-based organic-inorganic composite layers for environmental remediation, photodegradation of antibiotic contaminants from wastewater. The composition and chemical bonds of the urea-enriched thin layers were studied in detail using synchrotron light. 
Mining waste in marine sediment in Portmán (Murcia)    
BL22-CLAESS
 
For more than 40 years, 60 million tonnes of mine waste were dumped directly in Portman Bay, resulting from the open pit mining that took place in Sierra Minera in Cartagena. As a consequence, the Bay was literally filled with metal-rich artificial soil. A research group from the University of Barcelona (UB) has analysed the heavy metals contamination with synchrotron light to obtain unprecedented information. 
New insights about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis    
BL09-MISTRAL & BL01-MIRAS
 
Synergetic combination of different imaging and spectroscopic synchrotron techniques performed in ALBA and APS (USA) has discovered new aspects about astrocytes cells of this neurodegenerative disease. Results, published in Analytical Chemistry, show significant differences between ALS and control astrocytes, including structural, chemical and macromolecular anomalies. 

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ALBA is the synchrotron light source in Spain. It is a complex of electron accelerators to produce synchrotron light, which allows visualization and analysis of matter and its properties at atomic and molecular levels. In operation since 2012, ALBA has eight beamlines and four more under construction. It generates about 6,000 hours of beamtime and hosts more than 1,800 academic and industrial researchers every year.   

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