The ACCC (Associació Catalana de Comunicació Científica) has recently held its 30th anniversary, where three initiatives were awarded as the best Outreach projects. Misión ALBA was one of the winners and the jury highlighted its capability to engage kids into science as well as its great success with schools participating from all the regions of Spain.
They proved that a system based on molybdenum-on-titania does efficiently catalyze this reaction and represents a promising alternative to current industrial catalysts. This helps eliminating carbon dioxide and producing methanol, which can serve as a "green fuel" or as building blocks for the production of plastics, pharmaceuticals, textiles, etc. The team carried out experiments at the CIRCE-NAPP beamline of the ALBA Synchrotron to characterize the structure of the catalyst.
The new beamline of the ALBA Synchrotron, devoted to ARPES technique, is performing its first official experiment. A research group from DIPC-Donostia is analyzing the electronic structure of a 2D material to be used in spintronics and data storage.
Researchers from the ITQ-UPV-CSIC, in collaboration with ALBA, have explored the use of silver nanoparticles as catalysts for the selective catalytic oxidation of ammonia, one of the main atmospheric pollutants. Thanks to the CLÆSS beamline at ALBA, researchers proved that the active catalyst for the reaction of ammonia to nitrogen and water is metallic silver, instead of silver cations. These findings will contribute to developing new methods for the elimination of ammonia released to the atmosphere in industry and in diesel vehicles.
The 12th edition of this workshop has been held from the 5th till the 8th of October 2021, promoting an excellent forum where to exchange ideas and best practices among worldwide experts in accelerators. This workshop, which was initially to take place in 2020, has been focused on the impact of the pandemic in the way accelerators are run.
