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Porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are hybrid materials that can be specifically designed, among other features, for the selective uptake of specific molecules. This allows their use in several (...)

As part of the future upgrade of SOLEIL, some technological innovations are necessary in order to be able to achieve the desired performance. Today, one of these innovations becomes a reality!

A SOLEIL researcher, M.E. Couprie, receives the 2021 Charpak-Ritz Prize. We send her our warm congratulations!

The drying of wood follows mechanisms that are still largely unclear. They involve liquid water in the cell cavities known by their Latin name of “lumina” (singular “lumen”) but also water adsorbed in (...)

To meet the needs of pump-probe-probe time-resolved X-ray diffraction experiments, such as those carried out on CRISTAL beamline, the Synchrotron SOLEIL Detectors group launched an R&D project in 2017 (...)

The functioning of the enzyme FAP (Fatty Acid Photodecarboxylase), useful for producing biofuels and for green chemistry, has been decrypted. This result mobilized an international team of scientists (...)

Peroxy radicals (RO 2) are key reaction intermediates in the low temperature oxidation of organic compounds and play essential roles in combustion processes and in atmospheric chemistry. In the (...)

We keep following Julie Gordon, a PhD student at the MONARIS laboratory and at the SOLEIL synchrotron, in the various places where she is led by her research work on the alteration of painted metal (...)

During the fire of April 15, 2019, which destroyed a large part of the structure of Notre-Dame in Paris Cathedral, the 120 stained glass windows adorning the facades were preserved. However, the cloud (...)

About a decade ago, many astronomical observations were taken with the Herschel Space Observatory, an ESA/NASA mission. Some of the, were part of a project called “Chemical Herschel surveys of star (...)

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscopic vortices of magnetisation, which carry the potential for exciting new applications in ultra-low energy advanced spintronic devices, due to their novel topological and (...)

An international research group held by Dr. Longjian Xie from the Okayama university (now postdoc at the Bavarian Research Institute of Experimental Geochemistry & Geophysics (BGI) of the University (...)