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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 07/07/2025

Reading the unreadable. X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy at PUMA beamline for reading salt...

Cuneiform tablets are among the oldest written records in human history. Some show salt layers formed after millennia underground, which can crack the clay and completely cover the inscriptions,...

Publié le 30/06/2025

Success Story - NEPHEWS Program - Cosmin Romanitan hosted on SIXS beamline (June 11-15,...

Scientist from the National Institute for R&D in Microtechnologies (IMT) in Bucharest, Cosmin Romanitan has strong expertise in laboratory-based X-ray diffraction on different types of...

Publié le 16/06/2025

"Understanding how materials work and uncovering their secrets feeds my curiosity...

Through a series of portraits, SOLEIL goes out to meet the people who make the synchrotron what it is. For this fourth episode, Stéphanie Belin, a scientist on the ROCK beamline, played along. From...

Publié le 16/06/2025

Transition metal dichalcogenides - Evolution of their electronic structure from two- to...

Ever since the discovery of graphene, research on two-dimensional (2D) materials is ongoing a tremendous effort. Along with this trend, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) are extremely promising...

Publié le 04/06/2025

SOLEIL's contribution to the Energy Transition

More than 15 years after the opening to our users, SOLEIL takes stock of the important results obtained thanks to the beamlines during this period. Thus, we invite you to discover a...

Publié le 03/06/2025

A vitamin D analog to fight advanced prostate cancer

Vitamin D is known for its anti-cancer activities, notably on prostate cancer progression, but it is of limited clinical use. Scientists from the Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et...

Publié le 28/05/2025

Best Presentation Award granted to Marine Fournier at the 2025 National Photoemission...

Organized by the PhotoEmission Spectroscopy Research Federation (FR SPE), the JNSPE 2025 conference, held in Lyon from May 14 to 16, recognized Marine Fournier, a final-year PhD student, with the...

Publié le 22/05/2025

Paleontology: how did early life forms survive in an Arsenic-rich ocean?

How did the earliest life forms manage to endure the extreme conditions of their environment, such as chemically toxic surroundings? When did they begin to develop survival strategies? An...

Publié le 12/05/2025

Phosphorus doping for higher-performance lithium-sulfur batteries

Metal borides have emerged as promising sulfur electrocatalysts for lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries. However, optimizing their electrocatalytic activity and understanding the underlying mechanism...

Publié le 06/05/2025

SUNSTONE General Lectures - First Edition

A brief recap of the online lecture series on synchrotron radiation techniques that took place in April 2025

Publié le 05/05/2025

UPSaclay STAR φ – UPSaclay Scientific Training And Research programme for the next...

UPSaclay STAR φ – Become a STAR φ Fellow! Atomic and Molecular Physics; Quantum & Soft Matter Physics; Nanophysics; Nuclear Particle & Astroparticle Physics; Astrophysics; Cosmology;...