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Published on 22/10/2024How is air pollution formed? New Insights
A team of researchers at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute/Hamad Bin Khalifa University, the synchrotrons PETRA III (...)Read more -
Published on 21/10/2024Open House – SOLEIL de Minuit - new date: Febraury 7, 2025
Following the cancellation of the SOLEIL de Minuit event on 22 November 2024 due to weather conditions, we are pleased to announce that a new date has been set. The event will take place on Friday 7 (...)Read more -
Published on 18/10/2024Alexis Gamelin, recipient of the Jean-Louis Laclare Award
On Tuesday, October 15th, the Jean-Louis Laclare Award* of the Société Française de Physique (SFP) was presented to Alexis Gamelin, a physicist in the Accelerator Physics Group at SOLEIL, during the (...)Read more -
Published on 18/10/2024Droplet levitation for self-assembly of liquid crystals
Researchers at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides (Orsay) and SWING beamline at SOLEIL have studied the self-assembly of liquid-crystal particles inside a droplet when the latter evaporates (...)Read more -
Published on 16/10/2024The mystery of underwater directional hearing solved
The human brain determines the direction of a sound by analyzing the interval between the moment the sound is detected successively by one ear and then the other. On land, this is effective. However (...)Read more -
Published on 27/09/2024ReMade@ARI: a circular economy project with simplified access to research infrastructures (...)
ReMade@ARI (Research for Materials Development at Analytical Research Infrastructures) is a European project, of which SOLEIL is a member, designed to promote the circular economy by supporting (...)Read more -
Published on 25/09/2024DESIRS sheds light on clusters of [4]helicene, the smallest chiral polycyclic aromatic (...)
A team of scientists from Coimbra, DESY, LISA, Münster, Valladolid, and Angers teamed up with the DESIRS beamline group to study the structural evolution of molecular clusters of [4]helicene, the (...)Read more -
Published on 20/09/2024SOLEIL will be present at the Village des Sciences at the ENS Paris-Saclay, October 5-6 (...)
On Saturday October 5 and Sunday October 6, SOLEIL will once again be taking part in the annual Fête de la Science (Science Festival), offering the public the chance to discover SOLEIL and science (...)Read more -
Published on 17/09/2024Discover our series "Next Chapter"
How does an experiment at a synchrotron unfold? What do the samples that scientists study there look like? What information do they obtain on a beamline? Since 2008, to make the answers to these (...)Read more -
Published on 17/09/2024Portrait of Jean Susini - "Applied science is built brick by brick: with curiosity (...)
In a series of portraits, SOLEIL goes out to meet those who make the synchrotron what it is. For this third episode, Jean Susini, SOLEIL's new Director General, agreed to take part. In an interview (...)Read more -
Published on 15/09/2024A crystal with sponge-like properties: Next Chapter
In 2014, at the CRISTAL beamline of SOLEIL, researchers came to study a material with astonishing properties: a powder, each grain of which is made up of molecules organized in the form of crystals (...)Read more -
Published on 15/09/2024Jurassic Park at the Synchrotron SOLEIL: Next chapter
We invite you to go back to the origins of the Jurassic Park saga through research carried out at Synchrotron SOLEIL! The exceptional preservation of inclusions in amber (insects, plants, etc.) has (...)Read more