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Gallium nitride (GaN) and related compounds are key material systems in state-of-the-art opto- and high-frequency-electronic. The spectrum of relevant functionalities is significantly extended through (...)

For decades, scientists have referred to the measurement of the spectrum of the diatomic molecule N 2 to calibrate "soft" X-rays (energy less than 2000 eV) absorption spectroscopy experiments, or to (...)

Chiral molecules exist in two forms, called enantiomers, which cannot be superimposed but are mirror images one of the other. Amino acids, the chiral elementary building blocks of proteins, only exist (...)

Researchers from the DESIRS beamline have determined for the first time chiral* asymmetries (caused by photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD*)) in photoelectron imaging experiments on chiral aerosol (...)

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 (...)