ACTIVITY REPORT 08290 Cerdanyola Del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain - Tel: +34 93 592 43 00 - 2 0 1 7 ACTIVITY REPORT © ALBA Synchrotron
2 0 17 A C T I V Y R E P O 2 0 1 7 ALBA Synchrotron - Carrer de la Llum 2-26 ACTIVITY REPORT 08290 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain - Tel: +34 93 592 43 00 - www.albasynchrotron.es 2 0 1 7 ACTIVITY REPORT © ALBA Synchrotron. All rights reserved. ALBA Synchrotron Carrer de la Llum 2-26 08290 Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona) Spain Tel. +34 93 592 4300 Editors: Salvador Ferrer and Ana Belén Martínez We’d like to thank the contributors who have participated in this publication: Stefano Agrestini, Marta Ávila, Ramon Barnadas, Amilcar Bedoya-Pinto, Alfonso Caballero, Joan Casas, Carles Colldelram, Ana Cuesta, Fei Du, Daniel Errandonea, Salvador Ferrer, David Fernández, Ignasi Fina, Michael Foerster, Gastón García, Miguel Ángel García-Aranda, Maria José García, Victor Garrido, Qiang Fu, Pierluigi Gargiani, Judith Juanhuix, Elena Junquera, Sergey Kapishnikov, Anna Laromaine, Paqui López Fagúndez, Arturo Martínez Arias, Josep Nicolás, Victor de la Peña, Francis Pérez, Montse Pont, Laurent Rubatat, Ángela Salom, Alejandro Sánchez, David Santamaría-Pérez, Massimo Tallarida, Dino Tonti, Núria Valls, Antoni Villaverde. Graphic design: Lucas Wainer Printing: JM Gràfic CONTENTS 04 Foreword 06 The ALBA Synchrotron 13 Beamlines in Construction 16 Scientific Results 16 Biosciences 30 Energy-Related Materials 40 Catalysis 49 Magnetism & Superconductivity 65 Materials Science 74 Industrial Liaison Office 78 Technology 92 2017 in ALBA 94 Health & Safety 95 Collaborations and Seminars 99 Students at Alba 100 Outreach 102 Facts & Figures 108 Financial Information FOREWORD Dear reader, In this foreword I have the challenging task of summarizing in few lines a year of activity at our facility.
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