Research - SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre - Jagiellonian University

Construction begins on SOLABS (XAS-HN) beamline

At the beginning of December 2019, the factory acceptance tests of the SOLABS (XAS-HN) beamline first devices was completed. The components were delivered to SOLARIS on December 9, and at the end of the month, during shutdown, SOLARIS team installed them in the storage ring.

The components are the first part of the so-called front end (the fragment of a beamline located inside a synchrotron tunnel). The second part of the front end will be delivered to SOLARIS in March 2020 and installed during the next shutdown, scheduled for early May 2020.

SOLABS (XAS-HN) is an X-ray absorption spectroscopy beamline, whose synchrotron light source will be a bending magnet. The beamline will deliver photons within a broad energy range, allowing measurements to be conducted at the absorption edges of many elements. The end station is intended for fundamental and applied research in:

materials science, physics and chemistry (investigation of alloys, oxidic systems and catalysts, probing of dynamic processes etc.);
biomedicine (investigation of metalloproteins, investigation of the stability, uptake and therapeutic mechanism of action of inorganic and bio-inorganic drugs etc.),
environmental protection (tracking the degree and rate of toxic elements bioaccumulation, as well as the evolution of their chemical and structural state in the chain of transitions from the source of pollution to living organisms).

The project leader, thanks to whom the research infrastructure will be created, is Hochschule Niederrhein, Universtity of Applied Sciences of Germany, while the project partner is the Synchrotron Light Research Institute of Thailand.

Modification date 09/04/2022 - Agnieszka Cudek

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