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Publié le 07.02.2025

SOLEIL Highlights 2024

The new edition of our Highlights brings together 45 standout achievements selected from the approximately 700 articles published in 2024, resulting from the research undertaken both on SOLEIL's beamlines and within all the synchrotron teams that enable scientists to use these beamlines.For this 2024 edition, a first section dedicated to key figures that illustrate SOLEIL’s activity and recent...

Publié le 04/11/2025

Ammonia oxidation – Platinum nanoparticles caught in action

Ammonia oxidation is a key reaction in the chemical industry, essential for global agriculture and mining, and it also helps limit emissions of this irritating and polluting gas. A SOLEIL team, in...

Publié le 31/10/2025

Five African researchers visit the Synchrotron SOLEIL

From September 24 to 26, El-Eulmi Bendeif, scientist on the CRISTAL beamline, welcomed five African researchers, along with Emmanuel Wenger and Yohann Vuillemard, respectively engineer and technician...

Publié le 31/10/2025

Bacterial architects build network-like membrane structures to feed more efficiently

Press release - The cereal weevil, one of the world’s main crop pests, harbors symbiotic bacteria that live inside its cells. Scientists from INRAE and INSA Lyon, in collaboration with experts from...

Publié le 14/10/2025

MOFs take center stage with the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — and at SOLEIL, too!

When a rigid aluminum-based MOF becomes flexible... Long considered rigid by the MOF (Metal–Organic Frameworks) research community, the aluminum-based material DUT-5(Al) has now revealed a remarkable...

Publié le 13/10/2025

Group tour fully booked

Group visits fully booked until end of February 2026

Publié le 10/10/2025

Materials science – When the surface reaches deep inside…

Crystalline surfaces often exhibit reconstructions, usually assumed to affect only a few atomic layers below the surface. A collaborative study (conducted by the Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques...

Publié le 01/10/2025

SOLEIL will be present at the Village des Sciences at the ENS Paris-Saclay, October 4-5,...

On Saturday October 4 and Sunday October 5, SOLEIL will once again be taking part in the annual Fête de la Science (Science Festival), offering the public the chance to discover SOLEIL and science...

Publié le 30/09/2025

"I bring an industrial perspective to the world of research for a unique project...

Through a series of portraits, SOLEIL introduces the people who make the synchrotron what it is. In this fifth installment, François Trias steps into the spotlight. Hired over two years ago as part...

Publié le 29/09/2025

ReMade@ARI final call : materials research for the circular economy - Ongoing Call –...

Working on materials for Circular Economy? Get access to European Research Infrastructures by submitting a proposal on ReMade@ARI portal.

Publié le 24/09/2025

World-first at SOLEIL: 3D X-ray imaging of pressurized hydrogen-induced damage in steel...

Researchers from the Centre des Matériaux – Mines Paris (PSL) have achieved a world-first at the SOLEIL synchrotron: real-time 3D X-ray imaging of steel deformation and fracture under pressurized...

Publié le 15/09/2025

A new target to treat mpox (formerly monkeypox) and other poxviral infections

Mpox is an infectious disease transmitted by contact that can be fatal or leave significant sequelae. Scientists at the Institut Pasteur have identified and characterized a new target for developing...