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Claire Laulhé, lecturer at the Paris-Saclay University (Paris-Sud) and affiliated to the SOLEIL synchrotron for her research, is honored this year with the CNRS bronze medal. The CNRS Bronze Medal (...)

At the end of April 2018, the first coupling of the synchrotron radiation with a SESAME infrared spectrometer was conducted and the first molecule vibrational spectra were recorded. This infrared (...)

Researchers from the Laboratory for Functional Ecology and Environment (EcoLab) in Toulouse, Grenoble CEA (INAC), the nuclear microprobe in Saclay CEA (LEEL) and the LUCIA beamline at SOLEIL have (...)

From 10 to 14 April 2018, the ANATOMIX beamline hosted its first user experiment following a proposal approved by SOLEIL’s Program Committees. The research team led by Michel Bornert, from the (...)

Electron transfer between a molecule and a semiconductor surface is a central mechanism in devices such as dye-sensitised photovoltaics and water splitting photoelectrochemical cells. A collaboration (...)

The International Day of Light - Following the success of the International Year of Light in 2015, UNESCO has proposed a day dedicated to the celebration of light and light-related technologies: May (...)

Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is an enveloped virus which can infect insects, cattle, horses, and pigs. In mammals, its ability to infect and kill tumor cells, although sparing normal cells, makes (...)

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology (Marburg, Germany), the Institute for Structural Biology (Grenoble, France) and the École Normale Supérieure (Lyon, France) have (...)

While the hydrophobic effect forms the basis for many chemical and biological phenomena, the interaction between two hydrophobic substrates is still not understood. Thanks to the development of an (...)

An international scientific consortium, led by teams from the LATMOS and DESIRS beamline, extends the legacy and impact of the Cassini-Huygens mission into the laboratory. During 13 years, the Cassini (...)

Researchers from C2N and University of Pennsylvania in collaboration with CASSIOPÉE and TEMPO beamlines found a reliable method to tune the electronic properties of 2D TMDs materials without quality (...)

Orange Infrared is a collaborative project between SOLEIL (SMIS beamline), ELETTRA (SISSI beamline) and the Bioinformatics Laboratory of the University of Ljubljana. It started in 2016 to provide open (...)