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Publiée le 07.05.2019

SOLEIL Highlights 2018

Looking back on 2018… It will be remembered as the year in which SOLEIL welcomed its 10,000th user, a young woman from the University of Cantabria, ten years after the synchrotron opening to users. Find the complete retrospective of the year 2018 and a collection of selected outstanding scientific results obtained at SOLEIL in 2018, in the new edition of our Highlights....

Publiée le 07.30.2019

Cellular regulation. VHL E3 ubiquitin ligase, a new potential druggable protein

Together with protein phosphorylation, protein ubiquitination plays one of the most important role in cellular regulation. Defects in both signaling pathways are involved in cancer and other disease...

Publiée le 07.30.2019

Une transition métal-isolant originale vue par photoémission

Metal-insulator transitions are one of the most spectacular phenomena in condensed matter…

Publiée le 06.17.2019

Control of the micro-bunching instability at SOLEIL and stabilization of the Terahertz...

Relativistic electron-bunches producing the light in synchrotron radiation facilities are complex media. In particular, when the bunch charge is important, micro-structures appear spontaneously...

Publiée le 06.17.2019

Microchips to explore the 3D architecture of biomolecules

Crystallography is one of the most widely used methods for the study of the 3D architecture of biomolecules (proteins, RNA, DNA). However, the most delicate stage in this technique is the production...

Publiée le 06.11.2019

Light turns biomass into diesel fuel and hydrogen

Biomasses are organic residuals and waste from agriculture, forests and other human activities; they represent one of the greatest carbon sources in nature (800 Mt in dry matter biomass is harvested...

Publiée le 05.23.2019

Synchrotron SOLEIL and LNE have signed a R&D partnership agreement

A first operational nanometric transfer standard For several years now, the Optics Metrology Laboratory in Optics Group at SOLEIL (LMO) has benefited from LNE (Laboratoire National de metrologie et...

Publiée le 05.21.2019

The characterization of multiscale self-assemblies by SAXS

The development of structured materials on a nanometric scale by molecular brick self-assembly is a major scientific challenge that meets many of todays societal demands. These compounds involve a...

Publiée le 05.15.2019

Probing the atomic structure of volcanic glasses with synchrotron radiation

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) is a ubiquitous element in the Earth's volcanic systems. A large amount of volcanic CO₂ is propelled from the mantle to the surface of the Earth by unique...

Publiée le 05.02.2019

Biradicals - An elusive kind of molecules

Biradicals are molecules with two unpaired electrons. The simplest and best known examples of biradicals are oxygen (O₂) and ozone (O₃), but other biradicals appear in...

Publiée le 04.19.2019

Bursting Bubbles - A Holographic Examination of “Magnetic Biskyrmions” on SEXTANTS

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscopic vortices of magnetisation, which promise exciting new applications in spintronic devices due to their novel topological and transport properties. In a recent...

Publiée le 04.17.2019

International Day of Light

Since 2018, UNESCO has declared that May 16 is the International Day of Light.