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Publié le 09.12.2023

Raising awareness of science among an ever-younger audience

Since 2015, SOLEIL has been partnering the Yvelines and Essonne Departmental Inspectorates of Primary Education with the "Lumières Primaires" project. This partnership involves designing and providing elementary school teachers with trunks containing teaching materials for implementing experimental activities, as well as training and supporting the teaching teams involved.

Publié le 19/09/2023

ReMade@ARI call for projects: materials research for the circular economy

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

Publié le 11/09/2023

Imaging Alzheimer’s disease through three different beamlines at SOLEIL

Alzheimer’s disease — the most common dementia in the world — progresses in the brain with the development of large protein deposits called amyloid-beta plaques. These shell-like objects can entrap...

Publié le 05/09/2023

Nanocrystals and droplets: a miniature system to study the impact of proteins on biomass...

The production of agrifoods, biofuels or biobased materials can involve the transformation of biomass. At the molecular level, cellulose polymers, a major polysaccharide component of plant matter,...

Publié le 05/09/2023

Study of an infrared camera using operando photoemission on ANTARES beamline

Nanocrystals are semiconductor nanoparticles. By choosing the right materials, it is possible to design nanocrystals photosensitive to infrared (IR) light, which can then be used as "active pixels"...

Publié le 24/08/2023

Discovery of the oldest macroscopic planktonic eukaryotes - Contribution of the...

The origin of eukaryotic* cells is a major challenge in evolutionary biology and has been sharply debated within the scientific community for decades. An international team coordinated by Abderrazak...

Publié le 25/07/2023

Going carbon neutral - a new catalyst for CO₂ conversion caught in action

Researchers from South Korea’s Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), and Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et...

Publié le 24/07/2023

Zebrafish larvae to test renal toxicity of an antibiotic

Renal toxicity is an important aspect to be assessed when a new drug is tested. To study this toxicity, in vitro cell-based assays are often used. Unfortunately, translating the results of such cell...

Publié le 11/07/2023

Formation and decay of solvated dielectrons observed for the first time

In liquids such as water or liquid ammonia, solvated electrons exist in isolated form, strongly confined within cavities formed in the solvent and, according to various scientific hypotheses, they...

Publié le 11/07/2023

Antivirals alter the elastic properties of the hepatitis B virus capsid

One strategy for curbing the proliferation of pathogenic viruses is to disrupt their assembly as they multiply in infected cells, in particular with small molecules known as assembly modulators....

Publié le 05/07/2023

SOLEIL Highlights 2022

This document presents a selection of the remarkable results achieved by our users and teams. They allow us to remain optimistic for the future, despite a difficult context linked to the...

Publié le 04/07/2023

Simple and abundant materials for efficient future energy

The use of hydrogen H₂ as a clean energy carrier is one of today's technologically viable avenues¹. Hydrogen can be produced by water photoelectrolysis: an electrolysis reaction...