Scientists from the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS) and researchers from the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing are working at the China-Brazil Joint Laboratory for Synchrotron Science and Technology (CBJSync), an international laboratory recently inaugurated in the city of Campinas, Brazil. The group is working to advance the fields of health, energy, the environment, and new materials.

LNLS is responsible for operating Sirius, the 4th generation synchrotron light source, which acts as a kind of “super-powerful X-ray” to analyze various types of materials at the atomic and molecular scales and could lay a strong technological foundation for scientific cooperation between the two countries.

“At this moment, there is knowledge that Brazil possesses that will be exchanged in the partnership. But China, on the other hand, has a range of other knowledge in other areas that this cooperation will allow to be exchanged in the opposite direction,” said António José Roque, director of the National Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), recognizing that the cooperation will provide a mutually beneficial technological exchange.

(Source: G1 - Brazil, on July 17)