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Two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) in transition-metal oxides show remarkable properties that make them promising candidates for future applications in electronics. However, their fabrication and (...)

More than 320 million years ago, an insect of an extinct group of grasshopper and carrying a minute mite on its back was rapidly buried, and then fossilised. Recently, both fossil animals were (...)

“Light”, a particularly relevant theme for a synchrotron radiation facility, was chosen by UNESCO for the International Year 2015. What can be drawn from this year in SOLEIL? Browse the electronic (...)

Researchers have for the first time shown that ribose, a sugar that is one of the building blocks of genetic material in living organisms, may have formed in cometary ices.

Cuprates (copper oxides) are currently used as highest temperature (-135° C) superconductors. Scientists are trying to find new candidates for which this temperature would be even higher. This (...)

Researchers from Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS Thales and CEA INAC SP2M, in partnership with the CASSIOPÉE beamline, demonstrate the potential of recently discovered topological insulator α-Sn for room (...)

In March 2016, Doctor Philippe Charlier, Sophie Jacqueline and Julie Arteta, from the Medical and Forensic Anthropology group of Versailles Saint Quentin University, came to DiffAbs beamline to study (...)

Analytical techniques using X-rays (X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, X-ray absorption, optical characterization, etc.) require knowledge of fundamental atomic data, and in particular the mass (...)

Nano-magnets are of particular interest for researchers in the field of nanomedicine since they are easily tunable through a magnetic field. Iron oxide, which is not expensive and easy to synthesize (...)

Researchers from the University of Belgrade successfully demonstrated the utility of tryptophan-functionalized gold nanoparticles as fluorescent probes for imaging of microbial cells. In the study (...)

After showing the coexistence of Eu 2+/Eu 3+ ions in hydrated EuCl3 salt, which was then proved to be EuCl 2,85 salt (see 2013 study published in J. Phys Chem. C) a new advance has been made on the (...)

Crystal structure of part of the type VI secretion system solved on PROXIMA-1 Among the multiple systems used by bacteria to survive and multiply, the T6SS- type VI secretion system is one of the main (...)