Researchers from the UAB and IDIBELL have analysed Alzheimer’s disease brain samples at the ESRF and ALBA Synchrotron to characterise two types of amyloid plaques with differences in metal ion composition and in their levels of oxidised lipids. The results could lead to new insights into the development of the pathology.
Around 40 people attended the industrial webinar organized by the ALBA Synchrotron where companies were able to know how to use synchrotron light for analyzing and improving materials such as cements, pigments and ceramics
From 1 to 3 June 2021, the director of the ALBA Synchrotron is participating at this global-scale conference, organised virtually this year for the first time.
In a recent publication, researchers from French and Spanish Institutions used the combination of two synchrotron light characterization techniques to study Chinese blue-and-white Ming porcelains, which are decorated under the glaze with Cobalt-based blue pigments, and produced during a one-step firing at high temperatures. They were able to identify the firing temperature by determining the porcelain’s pigments and the reduction-oxidation media conditions during their production. The approach they used can also be applied on a broad range of modern and archaeological ceramics to elucidate their production technology.
A Catalan-German collaboration has developed an innovative three-shell structure with the aim of improving future organic solar cells. XALOC beamline of the ALBA Synchrotron offered structural insights of this new system.
