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Published on 19/09/2023ReMade@ARI call for projects: materials research for the circular economy
Working on materials for Circular Economy? Get access to European Research Infrastructures by submitting a proposal on ReMade@ARI portal.Read more -
Published on 12/09/2023Raising awareness of science among an ever-younger audience
Since 2015, SOLEIL has been partnering the Yvelines and Essonne Departmental Inspectorates of Primary Education with the "Lumières Primaires" project. This partnership involves designing and providing (...)Read more -
Published on 11/09/2023Imaging Alzheimer’s disease through three different beamlines at SOLEIL
Alzheimer’s disease — the most common dementia in the world — progresses in the brain with the development of large protein deposits called amyloid-beta plaques. These shell-like objects can entrap (...)Read more -
Published on 05/09/2023Nanocrystals and droplets: a miniature system to study the impact of proteins on biomass (...)
The production of agrifoods, biofuels or biobased materials can involve the transformation of biomass. At the molecular level, cellulose polymers, a major polysaccharide component of plant matter, are (...)Read more -
Published on 05/09/2023Study of an infrared camera using operando photoemission on ANTARES beamline
Nanocrystals are semiconductor nanoparticles. By choosing the right materials, it is possible to design nanocrystals photosensitive to infrared (IR) light, which can then be used as "active pixels" in (...)Read more -
Published on 24/08/2023Discovery of the oldest macroscopic planktonic eukaryotes - Contribution of the (...)
The origin of eukaryotic* cells is a major challenge in evolutionary biology and has been sharply debated within the scientific community for decades. An international team coordinated by Abderrazak (...)Read more -
Published on 25/07/2023Going carbon neutral - a new catalyst for CO 2 conversion caught in action
Researchers from South Korea’s Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), and Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement (...)Read more -
Published on 24/07/2023Zebrafish larvae to test renal toxicity of an antibiotic
Renal toxicity is an important aspect to be assessed when a new drug is tested. To study this toxicity, in vitro cell-based assays are often used. Unfortunately, translating the results of such cell (...)Read more -
Published on 11/07/2023Formation and decay of solvated dielectrons observed for the first time
In liquids such as water or liquid ammonia, solvated electrons exist in isolated form, strongly confined within cavities formed in the solvent and, according to various scientific hypotheses, they can (...)Read more -
Published on 11/07/2023Antivirals alter the elastic properties of the hepatitis B virus capsid
One strategy for curbing the proliferation of pathogenic viruses is to disrupt their assembly as they multiply in infected cells, in particular with small molecules known as assembly modulators (...)Read more -
Published on 05/07/2023SOLEIL Highlights 2022
This document presents a selection of the remarkable results achieved by our users and teams. They allow us to remain optimistic for the future, despite a difficult context linked to the consequences (...)Read more -
Published on 04/07/2023Simple and abundant materials for efficient future energy
The use of hydrogen H 2 as a clean energy carrier is one of today's technologically viable avenues 1. Hydrogen can be produced by water photoelectrolysis: an electrolysis reaction using electrodes (...)Read more