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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 of this edition of our Highlights, in which we offer you a selection of the most outstanding results published in 2020.
Table of contents:
SURFACES, INTERFACES AND NANOSYSTEMS
p.20 Interplay of spin polarization, Gilbert damping and ultrafast demagnetization in Heusler compounds
p.22 Embedding a mobile ligand in a complex to control its spin state on a surface
p.24 Imaging magnetic skyrmion tubes
p.26 Facetting of a quasicrystalline approximant surface for stability and optimized catalytic performances
p.28 Correlated plasmons in the topological insulator Bi2Se3 induced by long-range electron correlations
PHYSICOCHEMISTRY OF LIQUIDS, SOFT MATTER, NANOCHEMISTRY
p.32 Fate of Lead (Pb) & Phosphorus (P) in alkaline Pb-polluted soils amended with P and acidifiedp.
p.34 Probing the multi-scale structural properties of Pu(IV) intrinsic colloids by synchrotron SAXS/XAS techniques
p.36 Unveiling the charge storage mechanism in VN thick electrode for on-chip micro-supercapacitors
p.38 A new tin-based active and low-cost catalyst for hydrogen fuel cell technology
p.40 A nanostructured amorphous precursor confines the nucleation of iron oxide nanocrystals
p.42 Polarization dependence of elastic and electrostatic driving forces to dopant segregation on LaMnO3
BIOLOGY AND HEALTH SCIENCES
p.46 Mechanisms leading to the preservation of 5000-year-old textiles revealed by X-ray microtomography
p.48 Deciphering the interactions between therapeutic lipidic nanoassemblies and serum components
p.50 Advanced vascular function discovered in a widespread moss
p.52 A model of the hantavirus surface glycoprotein lattice
p.54 The unexpected binding capacity of the third PDZ domain of whirlin to cochlear hair cell partners
ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS, DILUTE MATTER, UNIVERSE SCIENCE
p.58 Another demonstration of the power of “observe everything, identify later”: the first detections of NHD and ND2 in space
p.60 Identifying isomers of peroxy radicals in the gas phase
p.62 Vacuum ultraviolet photo-processing of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons of astrochemical interes
p.64 Unravelling molecular interactions in uracil clusters
PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF HARD CONDENSED MATTER, EARTH SCIENCES
p.68 Tracking the ultrafast light-induced shear strain in multiferroic BiFeO3 unit cell
p.70 Pressure enhances Tricolor Ho3+ Pyrochlore photoluminescence
p.72 The top lower mantle is enriched in bridgmanite in the early Earth
p.74 Short- and long-term effect of radiation damage in cotton paper
p.76 Imaging shape and strain in nanoscale engineered semiconductors for photonics by coherent XRD
MODELING, METHODOLOGY AND INSTRUMENTATION
p.80 A new setup for probing condensed matter in the Far IR to THz ranges at sub-Kelvin temperatures on the AILES beamline
p.82 Back-side illuminated scientific CMOS detector for soft X-ray beamlines
p.84 In situ experiments at SOLEIL under microfluidic conditions
p.86 Broadband coherent diffractive imaging
p.88 Following the phase transitions of iron in 3D under extreme conditions
p.90 Continuous scanning for Bragg coherent x-ray imaging
ACCELERATORS AND ENGINEERING DIVISION
p.94 Accelerators performance and selection of main achievements in 2020
p.96 Progress of prototyping program in the SOLEIL storage ring upgrade project