The complexity of biological systems requires monitoring them at “work” to link molecular processes in the native cellular environment with structural and functional information. Molecular location and quantification in close-to-native conditions, avoiding chemical fixation and dehydration artefacts, are therefore of outmost importance for instance in metallomics, drug delivery,...
Integrating physiology and structure at the neuronal circuit scale can provide a mechanistic understanding on how that circuit works. A correlative multimodal imaging pipeline that combines in vivo 2-photon microscopy (2P), synchrotron X-ray computed tomography with propagation-based phase contrast (SXRT) and serial block-face electron microscopy generates these multimodal maps reliably. In...
CoDI will be the coherence diffraction end station at ALBA II. This station will be intended to investigate materials in strategic sectors for the European Union (biotechnology and agri-food; energy transition and decarbonization; active and healthy ageing; circular economy and sustainable raw materials), which complement ALBA strategic research lines. The main technique at CoDI will be...
A beamline with two endstations is envisaged. One of the endstations will be devoted to Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering (RSoXS) and the other one to Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy (STXM) + ptychography.
Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy and Resonant Soft X-ray scattering are complementary techniques to probe the nano-to-mesoscale structure of soft condensed matter, in the real and...
The current needs generated by the race towards understanding and tailoring properties of quantum materials and the urgent social demand of greener and/or sustainable energies has boosted the demand of mapping weak excitations in matter. Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering, RIXS, is a unique tool that can return full energy and momentum resolved maps of such excitations, and has provided new...
