The Chemistry and Material (CHEMAT) section is administratively one of the three scientific sections of CELLS-ALBA Experiment Division. It presently encompasses 4.5 operating beamlines (BL04-MSPD, BL11-NCD-SWEET, BL16-NOTOS, BL22-CLAESS and BL24-CIRCE-NAPP) and two laboratories: (Chemistry and High Pressure). Already foreseen is the integration in the section of the new beamline 3sbar...
Scattering techniques have been widely used for studying the structural heterogeneity of soft condensed matter in general and polymers in particular. Simultaneous Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering (WAXS) is a well suited technique for investigating phase changes or conformational rearrangements on a length scale ranging from 1 to 500 nm. Static or time...
Li-ion and Na-ion batteries operate thanks to reversible intercalation reactions of the intercalant cation (A = Li${^+}$ or Na${^+}$) with the host compound (A${_x}$H) used as the active material of the positive electrode (often referred as “cathode”). These intercalation reactions typically exhibit two types of reaction mechanisms: (i) homogeneous reactions (single phase or solid solution),...
NOTOS at the ALBA synchrotron light source is a beamline devoted to XAS, XRD, and metrology applications in the energy range 4.5 – 30 keV. In addition to the capability to perform XAS and XRD investigations, the beamline will allow combination of XAS and XRD experiments in the same beamtime. NOTOS has been designed to study the electronic structure, short and long range order by XAS and XRD...
During the last few years, the supercritical fluids and functional materials group (SFFM) at ICMAB, have been researching on the preparation of metalorganic materials using an unconventional technique based on supercritical CO2 technology (scCO2) as solvent.
In the field of coordination polymers and metal-organic-frameworks (MOFs), scCO2 is widely known for being used for the post-synthetic...
