The future of efficient biofuel production is within reach. With measurements from MAX IV’s SPECIES beamline, a group from Lund University and RISE, Research Institutes of Sweden, has successfully developed a model catalyst that, once tuned, holds the potential to significantly improve the treatment process for the large-scale manufacture of viable biofuels from lignin. Lignin is a plant polymer only secondary in abundance to cellulose in nature.
The role of synthesis gas in tomorrow’s sustainable fuels
In a new publication in Nature Communications, a team from the Dutch company Syngaschem BV and the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research elucidates for the first time some aspects of the Fischer-Tropsch reaction, used for converting synthesis gas into synthetic fuels. Analysis performed at the HIPPIE beamline at MAX IV was instrumental to achieving these results.
The company Alfa Laval gains unprecedented insights on stainless steel at MAX IV
A team from the Swedish company Alfa Laval used MAX IV beamline MAXPEEM to gain unprecedented insights on the oxide layer of stainless steel. The information they obtained will be highly beneficial for the company’s R&D activities.
Identifying chemical content to increase the usefulness of solid waste ashes
Fortum Waste Solutions, Sysav, Eon, Stena and NOAH, in collaboration with Researchers from RISE and Chalmers, used beamline Balder to identify chemical species of copper and zinc in ashes that remain after burning solid waste. Not all forms of the metals in ashes pose the same risk to the environment. Therefore, more detailed knowledge can increase the possible uses of the ashes.
COOL sustainability more than a pipe dream in Lund
Sustainability measures, when applied intelligently, bolster societal productivity and deliver tangible improvements to the natural environment. Some argue that world economies cannot survive the impacts of business as usual in terms of pollution and high energy demands. In Lund, sustainability in work and life is a consistent aim, and in the most constructive way with COOL DH—the build project for the world’s largest low temperature district heating grid—nearing completion.
Scientists succeed in soaking protein guests into host crystals – a major step towards solving guest structures
A group of researchers have successfully soaked proteins into large protein crystals, marking a hitherto never reported achievement. The X-ray diffraction data, which were collected on MAX IV’s BioMAX beamline, indicate that the guest proteins could follow at least some of the hosts’ structures signifying a so far unparalleled step towards using crystallographic methods to solve guest protein structures. Such insights could pave the way for major advances in biotechnology, material science, and structural studies.
New food-focused theme for LINXS collaboration
LINXS and will run from August 2021 to June 2024. It gathers a range of national and international researchers and industry representatives within five working groups.
Disruptive solar cell company uses synchrotron X-rays to study radical product optimisation
Linköping University scientist Xianjie Liu in the control room at HIPPIE beamline. Credit: MAX IV Laboratory
MAX IV and ESS webinar on drug discovery and development
Would you like to know how SciLifeLab, MAX IV and ESS can contribute to drug discovery and development? Participate in the joint webinar organized by InfraLife together with partner organisation Lif on November 12, 2021. During the webinar SciLifeLab, MAX IV and ESS – the three large-scale research infrastructures will provide information on their capabilities in advanced technologies
Unveiling the properties of a versatile 2D material for energy storage and production applications
Researchers from Linköping University and MAX IV have determined the detailed surface atomic arrangement of inherently formed termination species in an important class of two-dimensional materials known as MXene. The results have implications for the use of the material in energy storage and production applications.