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In the 18th LEAPS General Assembly, held in Barcelona on the 26th of November, Caterina Biscari handed the symbolic LEAPS baton over Lenny Rivkin, Deputy Director of the Paul Scherrer Institut (CH), who will be the new LEAPS chair as of January 1st 2022.
The UPC student Andrea González won the first prize in the Engineering Internship Excellence Contest held in Madrid for her work developed during her internship at ALBA. She contributed to improve the ALBA refrigeration system pumps shedding light on the cavitation problem that had affected the accelerator cooling capacity and the behavior of the distributor in the aspiration zone.
Researchers from the UCM and CSIC, in collaboration with ALBA, have established a novel synthesis protocol to produce a larger number of nanowires than conventional laboratory fabrication processes with considerably reduced production time and cost. The use of recycled aluminium and the fact that the nanowires growth process is performed at room temperature allows the nanowires to be used in industry at lower costs. CIRCE beamline from ALBA has contributed to the evaluation of the magnetic properties of the nanowires for application in permanent magnets.
Researchers from the IMDEA Energy Institute in Madrid have used the CIRCE-NAPP beamline of ALBA to study the artificial photosynthesis process, that is, the chemical reaction that plants and other photosynthetic organisms use to transform the Sun's energy into chemical energy. The goal of their research is to selectively control the products of the chemical reaction to obtain those that have industrial and energetic interest. At the CIRCE-NAPP station, scientists have analyzed the different reaction products based on the catalysts used.
