October 2019  -   View this e-mail in your browser    
The Spanish synchrotron user community gathers at ALBA 
From 8th till 11th October, the IX AUSE Congress, the IV ALBA User's Meeting and two satellite workshops on nanomagnetism and catalysis have been held at the ALBA Synchrotron. Around 150 delegates have participated in the events. Achievements, results, present and future perspectives of ALBA were presented, as well as ESRF-EBS and European XFEL capacities for Spanish users. 

3rd Early-stage Researchers Day

On the 7th of October, 10 PhD students presented the projects they are developing at ALBA, related to a wide variety of research fields: biology, magnetic properties of materials, functional food, accelerators' technologies and engineering design. Anna Mandziak, in the last year of her thesis performed in CIRCE beamline (PEEM end-station), was awarded the best project. 
NCD-SWEET beamline detail

More than 300 proposals for the 2020-I call

The last call for experiments has reached a new record: 303 proposals (3,716 shifts) have been submitted for doing experiments from January to June 2020. 51% of proposals come from Spanish institutions, 37% from European centres and 12% from other countries. The most demanded scientific area has been solid-state physics (materials science, nanomaterials and electronic properties, magnetism and quantum materials). 

HIGHLIGHTS

Researchers unveil the biochemical effects involved in nanoparticle-based radiotherapy   
BL01-MIRAS 
 
A research, led by the ALBA Synchrotron and funded by the European project NANOCANCER, has analysed the impact of nanoparticles in radiotherapy of glioma tumour cells. Combining radiotherapy with nanoparticles can increase the efficacy of cancer treatments. 
Exploring the local topotactic oxidation using soft X-rays   
BL29-BOREAS 
 
Researchers have led a collaborative research, where they have exploited soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy as a tool for unveiling an electric-field induced crystallographic transformation between the conducting perovskite SrFeO3−δ and insulating brownmillerite SrFeO2.5 at room temperature. The method offers a new approach to design new functional materials with submicrometer spatial resolution. 
LOREA beamline initiates the assembly process    
BL20-LOREA 
 
The 9th beamline of the ALBA Synchrotron is facing the last step before entering in commissioning: having assembled most optics elements. The beamline, co-funded with ERDF funds, will offer angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES technique) to official users at the end of 2020. 
Gene encapsulation with MOFs for new delivery vectors in gene therapy    
BL09-MISTRAL 
 
An international research team has demonstrated an easy and efficient method to use nano MOFs for carrying large-size intact gene sets to be applied in gene therapy. Their study reports encapsulation of a complete gene-set in zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) MOFs and cellular expression of the gene delivered by the nano MOF composites, with data showing intracellular presence of the biocomposite particles. 

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ALBA is the only 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 2,000 academic and industrial researchers every year.
   

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