The non-profit civil company Synchrotron SOLEIL was created in 2001. This new edition of our Highlights looks back on the twentieth anniversary of this creation, a year still marked by the pandemic to which we have continued to adapt.
Browse the electronic version of the SOLEIL Highlights 2021
Table of contents:
SURFACES, INTERFACES AND NANOSYSTEMS
20-21 Directly visualizing electron localization in WS2/WSe2 moiré superlattices
22-23 Itinerant-to-localized transmutation of electrons across the metal-to-insulator transition in V2O3
24-25 How the thickness influences the thermal transition of spin crossover molecular films
26-27 Orbital excitations and doping evolution near the Mott insulator limit in La1−xSrxVO3 thin films
28-29 Atomic structure of novel 2D materials unveiled by Surface X-ray diffraction: the case of germanene
30-31 Designing light emitting diode for the infrared
PHYSICOCHEMISTRY OF LIQUIDS, SOFT MATTER, NANOCHEMISTRY
34-35 Stripping away ion hydration shells in electrical double layer formation: water networks matter
36-37 Probing the orientation of single-molecule magnets grafted on gold by X-ray absorption spectroscopies
38-39 Anionic redox processes revealed by HAXPES in transition metal chalcogenides for Li-ion batteries
40-41 Uranium retention on iron oxyhydroxides in post-mining environmental conditions
42-43 Is IrO2 the best electrocatalyst to produce green hydrogen? Yes, but not in any state!
44-45 Bottom-up electronic devices based on supramolecular nanowires: a full characterization by GIWAXS
BIOLOGY AND HEALTH SCIENCES
48-49 A new context for virtual histology: 3D X-ray microimaging of mouse brain during paraffin embedding
50-51 A High-Affinity Calmodulin-Binding Site in the CyaA Toxin is Essential for Eukaryotic Cell Invasion
52-53 Detection of PB1-F2 b-Aggregated Structures in the lung tissues of Influenza A Virus-Infected Mice
54-55 From yellow to white and back again: the secret of crab spiders’ color changes
56-57 Mechanism of cytokine-mediated activation of ALK family receptors finally revealed
58-59 Characterization of a complex between two proteins essential for Homologous Recombination in meiosis
ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS, DILUTE MATTER, UNIVERSE SCIENCE
62-63 Hydrogen atoms kick molecules out of the surface of water ice
64-65 Origin of Life: the natural asymmetry of biomolecules could be due to a photophysical process in space
66-67 Influence of shape resonances on the angular dependence of molecular photoionization delays
68-69 From 1d to 4d – What we can learn when chiral molecules explode
PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF HARD CONDENSED MATTER, EARTH SCIENCES
72-73 In-situ XRD Synchrotron Experiments to track epitaxial growth on TLAG-CSD REBCO compositional samples
74-75 Probing electron transfer at ultra-high speed with x-ray spectroscopy in GeSe semiconductor
76-77 Deciphering the color of faces in medieval stained glass: the original role of manganese
78-79 How thermal expansion of liquid Fe-S alloy controls the crystallization of small planetary bodies
80-81 The effect of pressure on diatomic molecules
82-83 Unravelling the local structure of Ga atoms in magnetic nanocrystals embedded in GaN
MODELING, METHODOLOGY AND INSTRUMENTATION
86-87 The CirPAD, a circular 1.4 M hybrid pixel detector dedicated to X-ray diffraction measurements at the DIFFABS beamline
88-89 A von Hamos spectrometer based on highly annealed pyrolytic graphite crystal in tender X-ray domain
90-91 A cheap and easy-to-make microfluidic mixer with low flow rate, low sample consumption and fast mixing
92-93 A step towards online dosimetry for synchrotron beamlines using a microfluidic dosimetry cell
ACCELERATORS AND ENGINEERING DIVISION
96-97 Accelerators Performance and Selection of Main Achievements in 2021
98-101 A Photon Stimulated Desorption beamline at SOLEIL as a proof of concept for the vacuum system of its Upgrade