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In 2008, a new family of superconductors was discovered, based on square planar iron. This attracted the attention of many physicists because superconductivity was found to occur up to relatively high (...)

Selenides e.g. bulk silver selenide are of much interest because of their use in various applications such as a thermoelectric materials, a photosensitizer in photography, in photochargeable batteries (...)

Experiments performed at DEIMOS beamline by a team of researchers of the Italian National Research Councils (CNR), the University of Manchester and French CNRS found that a single molecule may well (...)

Iron-sulfur clusters are ubiquitous cofactors made of iron and inorganic sulfur. They are essential for the function of proteins involved in a great range of activities: electron transport in (...)

Legionella pneumophila, which causes the Legionnaire’s disease, escapes destruction by the immune system by hiding inside the infected cell. This camouflage strategy requires that the bacterium (...)

Researchers at the Paris NanoSciences Institute (CNRS-UPMC), in collaboration with groups at SOLEIL and UVSQ, have developed a new technique for growing epitaxial alloy nanowire arrays in a matrix (...)

In the current context, with fossil fuels running out and high priority of environmental protection, the valorization of oil from biomass for energy and green chemistry is of increasing interest. The (...)

X photoemission spectroscopy experiments carried out on TEMPO beamline provide the first direct and measurable evidence of an existing link between the organic and mineral phases of calcareous (...)

A Swedish team provides key insights with a new 3D structure, solved from data collected on PROXIMA1, of the xylose transporter XylE from E. coli.

Experiments carried out at DESIRS beamline show that nanosolvation of a fragile peptide dimer by only three water molecules, isolated in the gas phase, has a dramatic impact on its stability. A (...)

Xenon is a fascinating but rare element. For an atomic physicist it shows itself as a horn of plenty: due to its electronic structure it provides a lot of transitions with complex electron correlation (...)

Natural clays, widespread in our soils, are today at the heart of a wide variety of industrial processes ranging from the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries to the food industry. Researchers at (...)