Proceedings of MATSUS Spring 2025 Conference (MATSUSSpring25)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsusspring.2025.345
Publication date: 16th December 2024
InCAEM will develop a singular infrastructure open to all the scientific community for research in advanced energy materials in order to address the scientific challenges of the European Green Deal. The project started in October 2022 and will have the infrastructure ready by end of 2025. It includes new equipment, infrastructure and staff.
New instruments to be installed in the ALBA premises are a high resolution (scanning) transmission electron microscope for in situ studies in gas and liquid environments and a scanning probe microscopies platform including tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy capabilities and flexible sample environments. Advanced data infrastructures will be installed both at ALBA and at PIC-IFAE for in situ and ex situ data processing, respectively. In addition, we will carry out the adaptation of existing beamlines to perform correlative experiments, and develop methods and pipelines for multi-modal approaches.
Compatible operando sample environments for complementary characterization tools together with advanced data analysis will provide excellent opportunities for true multi-modal and multi-length scale characterization of functional materials aimed at developing new sustainable materials to be used in batteries, electric vehicles or solar cells, among others. While (S)TEM and scanning probe microscopies offer unsurpassed spatial resolution and a variety of contrast mechanisms, X-ray-based techniques provide highly specific chemical, structural, electronic and magnetic information with high efficiency so that larger fields of view, thicker samples and faster processes can be studied.
The possibility to perform experiments in situ during relevant processes such as reactions, sample growth, thermal treatment or electrochemical cycles, and the correlation of results from different instruments with identical experimental conditions will permit linking the structural, compositional and morphological aspects of the same (nano)structures and of their surroundings for a comprehensive understanding of their structure-function relationship.
We will present the project and the opportunities it will bring for the user community with the help of selected application examples.
InCAEM is part of the Advanced Materials project within the Planes Complementarios programme, launched and funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation together with the Generalitat de Catalunya, with the support of NextGeneration EU funds.
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