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SOLEIL Highlights 2015

“Light”, a particularly relevant theme for a synchrotron radiation facility, was chosen by UNESCO for the International Year 2015. What can be drawn from this year in SOLEIL?
 
Browse the electronic version of this collection of selected outstanding scientific results, obtained at SOLEIL in 2015.

Table of contents:

SURFACES, INTERFACES AND NANOSYSTEMS

p. 16 - Structure and magnetic properties of self-organized ultrathin FePt nanowires
p. 18 - Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquid in one-dimensional metallic structure of Bi/InSb(001)
p. 20 - Tuning the electronic properties of epitaxial graphene via the substrate
p. 22 - Interfacial control of magnetic properties at LaMNO3/LaNiO3 interfaces
p. 24 - Evidence of bosonic modes named Fröhlich polarons at the bare SrTiO3 single crystal surfaces

CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, NANOCHEMISTRY

p. 28 - Effect of pressure on the largest unidimensional pore zeolite
p. 30 - Liquid crystal topological defects for nanoparticle directed assembly
p. 32 - How a cationic active peptide can penetrate the bacterial LPS leaflet as small oligomers
p. 34 - Aluminum forms strong complexes with natural organic matter
p. 36 - Non-platinum catalysts: the structure that remained mysterious for more than 25 years

BIOLOGY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

p. 40 - A novel form of DNA: the left-handed DNA G-quadruplex
p. 42 - Camelid nanobody helped structural determination of a large membrane core complex
p. 44 - β-sheet-twist: a clue for protein secondary structure and fold determination from CD spectroscopy
p. 46 - How to change the diameter of a biomimetic nanotube with the pH?
p. 48 - A vulnerable site for vaccine design at the Dengue virius envelope protein dimer interface revealed by X-ray crystallography

ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS, DILUTE MATTER, UNIVERSE SCIENCE

p. 52 - Probing aerosol surface composition by soft X-rays
p. 54 - Schrödinger's cat at the molecular level: localizing a core electron inside a molecule
p. 56 - A new access to double-core-hole states
p. 58 - The life cycle of cosmic pah molecules: a potential role of ethynyl derivatives
p. 60 - Einstein-Bohr gedanken experiment performed at the molecular level

PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF HARD CONDENSED MATTER, EARTH SCIENCES

p. 64 - Magnetic arm wrestling between metal and molecules
p. 66 - Chemical disorder and polyamorphism observed in glassy GeSe2
p. 68 - Metal-organic frameworks as promosing materials for mechanical energy storage: aluminum fumarate (MOF A520) as case of study
p. 70 - Investigating plasmonphonon interaction in topological insulators
p. 72 - Light meets wood: collagen-based coatings on historical musical instruments unmasked by their DUV luminescence

MODELING, METHODOLOGY AND INSTRUMENTATION

p. 76 - A novel approach for measuring the duration of ultrashort XUV pulses
p. 78 - A new vision of the coherent synchrotron radiation
p. 80 - Upgrade to the molecular beam end-station SAPHIRS
p. 82 - Recent detectors developments for specific energy beam at SOLEIL
p. 84 - Revolution axis controller makes dynamical sagittal focusing 20 times faster on SAMBA beamline

SOURCES AND ACCELERATORS DIVISION

p. 88 - Measurement of the impact of transverse incoherent wake fields
p. 90 - A 10-year road to reach 500 mA in daily operation