Speaker
Description
The In situ Correlative Facility for Advanced Energy Materials (InCAEM) is a new open-access research infrastructure that brings together complementary characterization techniques to study advanced energy materials under realistic operating conditions. Developed within the Spanish Complementary Plans Programme on Advanced Materials, InCAEM is a joint initiative of the ALBA Synchrotron, the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), and the Port d'Informació Científica (PIC-IFAE).
The facility combines state-of-the-art scanning transmission electron microscopy ((S)TEM), scanning probe microscopy (SPM), synchrotron-based techniques and dedicated sample environments to enable in situ and operando experiments across multiple length scales. By applying these complementary techniques to the same materials, InCAEM provides a correlative approach that links structural, chemical, electronic and functional information, offering a more comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms governing material performance.
In addition to its experimental capabilities, InCAEM integrates dedicated
computational resources for data management, multimodal data analysis and
workflow integration. This digital infrastructure complements the correlative experimental approach by enabling the efficient integration of datasets from multiple characterization techniques, supporting reproducible data processing and providing a unified framework for the analysis of complex in situ and operando experiments.
InCAEM is designed to serve both academic and industrial users working on
materials for batteries, electrocatalysis, photovoltaics and other energy-related technologies. By combining cutting-edge instrumentation with integrated data infrastructures and correlative methodologies, the facility aims to accelerate the discovery, optimization and validation of next-generation energy materials.