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Nuclear energy is the largest source of electricity production in France. In order to reprocess the spent nuclear fuel, fission products and minor actinides are concentrated and mixed with melted (...)

In a time resolved pump-probe experiment, the sample is excited with an ultra-short laser pulse (the pump), and induced changes in its atomic structure are studied by measuring, with a 2-D pixel (...)

A main challenge in chemotherapy is to determine the in cellulo parameters modulating the drug concentration required for therapeutic action. A method combining spectrofluorimetry and microscopy has (...)

Study of the spectroscopic properties of ions in the gaseous phase, a state of matter which by definition is highly diluted, requires the use of very specific experimental methods. Scientists at Orsay (...)

After four years of a fruitful collaboration between 2013 and 2016, SOLEIL and the "Institut Français du Pétrole et des Énergies Nouvelles" (IFPEN) renew their Framework Agreement for the 2017-2020 (...)

The measurement of elementary excitations in a material requires high resolution spectroscopic probes with momentum resolution. RIXS is a powerful technique to characterize these low energy (...)

2016 was a year of anniversaries. SOLEIL celebrated 10 years of its first beams: to begin with, electron beams, since the first electrons turned in the storage ring in May 2006. Then the DIFFABS (...)

In Materials Science, how to simultaneously analyze the morphology and the properties of nanoparticles? This case has motivated a collaboration between LUCIA beamline and Paris Institute of (...)

With numerous possible applications in fields such as energy, the environment, health or polymers, layered double hydroxides (LDH), which are particularly suitable for the development of (...)

In order to deal with the recent decline in the effectiveness of antimalarial treatments, new therapeutic solutions are currently being explored to fight against malaria. Researchers from University (...)

The 3D structure of the HAP2 protein, involved in this process in a unicellular alga, was solved using crystallization and X-ray diffraction. It appeared to be homologous to viral fusion proteins (...)

The study of biological macromolecules, such as DNA, RNA and proteins requires a prior and thorough knowledge of the physicochemical properties of their constitutive bricks, namely nucleobases and (...)