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After a long break, tours of the SOLEIL Synchrotron resume.

Ancient Egypt laid the foundations for the cultivation of flax as a textile fibre crop, particularly for making funeral cloths and mummy strips for high society. Today, flax fibres are used in high (...)

The deadline for submission of projects to the 29th call for proposals has been postponed to Tuesday, September 21, 2021, 12:00 (French time). This decision has been taken in order to allow the (...)

A scientific collaboration between University of Antwerp (Belgium), the Kröller-Müller Museum (Netherlands) and the SMIS beamline of Synchrotron SOLEIL has presented the first nanoscale analysis of (...)

The Minister was greeted on her arrival at SOLEIL at 9:30 am by Mr. Jean Daillant, Director General of SOLEIL, surrounded by many personalities and colleagues. Specifically: Mr. Alain Schuhl, Deputy (...)

More than 10 years after the opening to our users, SOLEIL takes stock of the important results obtained thanks to the beamlines during this period. Thus, we invite you to discover a series of thematic (...)

Various hydrocarbons are naturally released in the deep-sea floor, but something in the marine sediments consumes them. The responsible are specific microorganisms, able to transform these (...)

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 (...)

This document, which you can download, presents the conceptual design of an upgrade of Synchrotron SOLEIL accelerators, beamlines and infrastructure. The project is planned in two phase of 5 years (...)

Porous products such as mousses, bread or pastries represent a significant portion of frozen food products; yet few studies have focused on the mechanisms involved at the microscopic scale during (...)

One of the possible outcomes of the excitation of a surface by energetic particles is the desorption of molecules adsorbed on that surface. This phenomenon has been an object of fundamental study in (...)

On July 5th, the "Astrochemistry and Origins" team at Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS, Orsay;CNRS / Paris-Saclay), in collaboration with the SMIS beamline, started the analysis of several Ryugu (...)