SOLEIL Highlights 2013 are available online

Table of contents:

SURFACES, INTERFACES AND NANOSYSTEMS

p. 16 The virtuous Graphene goes out of the Labs, increasing its production up to industrial scale
p. 18 Approaching the Holy Grail of spintronics
p. 20 “Bad metals” and “good superconductors”
p. 22 Nitric acid on water ice: the chemical-physics behind a key pollutant of the Earth’s cryosphere
p. 24 Observation of topological electronic states in α -Sn films
p. 26 Oxide electronics - Static and dynamic electronic properties of a ferroelectric device
p. 28 Hydrogen-induced nanotunnel opening at the subsurface of an advanced semiconductor, Silicon Carbide

CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, NANOCHEMISTRY

p. 34 Active sites of metalloproteins in solution revealed by vibrational spectroscopy
p. 36 Self-structuring of bridged silsesquioxanes through covalent and non-covalent bonding
p. 38 New insights into short ordered Fe-Al oxyhydroxide coprecipitates
p. 40 Bone growth regulation: how does osteopontin bind uranium?
p. 42 High capacity Li-rich layered compounds for Li-ion batteries
p. 44 Probing spin-spin interactions in surface-supported single-molecule magnets
p. 46 Fluorescent nanoplatelets pile-up
p. 48 Coupling XANES and DFT calculations to unravel the structure of heterogeneous catalysts

BIOLOGY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

p. 54 Polymorphic and amyloid natures of neuronal inclusions of Huntington’s disease brain revealed by IR microspectroscopy
p. 56 Characterization of hydrophobic peptides by photoionization Mass Spectrometry
p. 58 MAN1 at the nuclear envelope blocks TGF- β signaling by stimulating dephosphorylation of the Smad transcription factors
p. 60 Synchrotron radiation - tandem mass spectrometry for proteomic and structural biology
p. 62 Atomic structure of 14-subunit RNA polymerase I: insight into ribosomal RNA synthesis
p. 64 The novel RNase P in action
p. 66 The function of translation initiation factor IF2 analyzed by an integrated structural biology approach
p. 68 Crystal structure of the crystallographer MamP

ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS, DILUTE MATTER, UNIVERSE SCIENCE

p. 74 Advanced studies of molecular ions by resonant photoemission
p. 76 Unravelling coupled electronic and nuclear angular momenta
p. 78 Spectroscopy of the ¹⁵NH radical
p. 80 New routes to dissociation: the fourth way
p. 82 Chirality reveals electronic/nuclear motion couplings
p. 84 Young´s double slit experiment revisited at the atomic level
p. 86 Nanosolvation-induced stabilization of a protonated peptide dimer isolated in the gas phase
p. 88 Photoelectron circular dichroism on gas phase alanine: a possible photophysical process at the origin of life’s homochirality?

PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF CONDENSED MATTER, EARTH SCIENCES

p. 94 Synchrotron UV/visible imaging discriminates historical pigments
p. 96 Programming the self-assembly of alloy nanowires: a combinatorial approach
p. 98 Why do γ -Fe nanoparticles inside carbon nanotubes abnormally expanse at high temperature?
p. 100 Terahertz magneto-electric excitations in a chiral compound
p. 102 Molecular refrigerators
p. 104Caffeine in cosmetics – optimizing its release into the body by means of ”MOFs”
p. 106 Resonant magnetic x-ray scattering on artificial spin ice
p. 108 LuFe₂ O_4+x : from multi-ferroicity to oxygen storage

MODELING, METHODOLOGY AND INSTRUMENTATION

p. 114 SPI Boards Package a flexible multipurpose set of boards for various scientific applications
p. 116 An in-house developed X-ray imaging detector for synchrotron based micro-tomography
p. 118 A new double charged particle imaging spectrometer for gas phase VUV photoionization studies
p. 120 Development of high performance heat transfer devices for synchrotron facilities
p. 122 A new tool for greenhouse gases Infrared absorption modelling
p. 124 A versatile source to make complex nanoscopic objects fly under vacuum
p. 126 Simultaneous fast-scanning XRF, dark field, phase-, and absorption contrast tomography
p. 128 The secondary source of NANOSCOPIUM

SOURCES AND ACCELERATORS DIVISION

p. 134 Storage ring operation status: performance and evolutions
p. 136 News on the storage ring optics: operation performance improvement
p. 138 W164: one insertion device for two purposes