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Publié le 07.27.2021
SOLEIL Highlights 2020
It is obviously impossible to summarize the year 2020 without mentioning the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced us all to change our way of interacting and working. However, the mobilization of all the SOLEIL teams has enabled us to limit the synchrotron's shutdown to 7 weeks, with users being welcomed back at the end of May 2020. The opening of SOLEIL is symbolized on the first page...
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Publié le 26/07/2021
Conceptual Design Report for SOLEIL Upgrade
This document, which you can download, presents the conceptual design of an upgrade of Synchrotron SOLEIL accelerators, beamlines and infrastructure. The project is planned in two phase of 5 years...
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Publié le 26/07/2021
Frozen sponge cake under the ANATOMIX X-ray microscope
Porous products such as mousses, bread or pastries represent a significant portion of frozen food products; yet few studies have focused on the mechanisms involved at the microscopic scale during...
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Publié le 13/07/2021
Hydrogen atoms kick molecules off the surface of water ice
One of the possible outcomes of the excitation of a surface by energetic particles is the desorption of molecules adsorbed on that surface. This phenomenon has been an object of fundamental study in...
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Publié le 13/07/2021
Samples of the asteroid Ryugu at SMIS beamline
On July 5th, the "Astrochemistry and Origins" team at Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS, Orsay;CNRS / Paris-Saclay), in collaboration with the SMIS beamline, started the analysis of several...
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Publié le 30/06/2021
What mechanisms are responsible for the preservation of archaeological textiles over...
An interdisciplinary team has revealed the mechanisms behind the exceptional preservation of 4,000-year-old textile remains from the Ancient East. The imaging of these archaeological samples in the...
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Publié le 23/06/2021
Laureates of the physics Olympics win a VIP visit to SOLEIL !
On June 8 and 9, 2021, we welcomed a group of 4 laureates of the physics Olympics, from Maxence Van Der Meersch high school in Roubaix (France), accompanied by their teacher.
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Publié le 21/06/2021
SOLEIL / CEA collaboration - A new world premiere on the MARS beamline: characterisation...
Early in June 2021, researchers from the CEA in Cadarache and the MARS beamline studied the chemistry of a cross-section of spent nuclear fuel using X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Another technique,...
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Publié le 16/06/2021
Probing electron transfer at ultra-high speed with x-ray at GALAXIES beamline
The urgent need for low consumption electronic devices calls for new materials which could be operated at fast speed with lower cost. 2D materials hold strong promise to that extent. Here we show...
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Publié le 14/06/2021
Bacteria viruses with an extended genetic alphabet
In all living organisms, genomic DNA is made up of four nucleotide bases: A, T, C and G, for adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine. All, except genomic DNA of certain bacteriophages (viruses...
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Publié le 02/06/2021
High pressures and temperatures at conditions of subduction zones - New insight on...
Subduction zones are extraordinarily complex shear-zone regions in the Earth. To understand their dynamics, it is important to investigate the deformation behavior and microstructure of rocks being...
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Publié le 02/06/2021
The effect of confinement on pairs... of atoms
Diatomic molecules are omnipresent in our environment, as well as in the air we breathe, but if we increase pressure by gradually bringing them closer together, how long do we continue to refer to...
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