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Carbon can take various forms depending on the function of the molecule in which it is placed, each with its own distinct ‘species’. The ‘speciation’ of carbonaceous materials is generally obtained by (...)

To survive in their environment, bacteria must adapt to very different growth conditions. One way of doing this is by use of a protein called Hfq which forms complexes with specific small ribonucleic (...)

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In September 2017, a team from ELI Beams (Extreme Light Infrastructures, Prague, Czech Republic), together with participants from IBT-Biocev (Institute of Biotechnology, Vestec near Prague, Czech (...)

Astrophysicists think that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) are widely present in interstellar space. Nevertheless, their mechanisms of formation by evaporation from carbonaceous nanograins are (...)

The Synchrotron SOLEIL is a member of Respore (“Réseau d'Excellence en Solides Poreux”, Network of Excellence in Porous Solids ) , a research network dedicated to analyzing and characterizing porous (...)

By carefully choosing the photon energy for the excitation of the deep-core 1s electron in HCl to the dissociative σ* orbital, scientists from France (UPMC/CNRS and SOLEIL), Germany (Berlin University (...)

Amoxicillin (AMX) is an antibiotic whose mechanism of action promotes cell wall lysis and consequently the death of bacteria from several different species. AMX is considered a first-line drug against (...)

Exceptionally, SOLEIL will open its doors to the public during summer time!

A decade of beams at SOLEIL: 2016 is a year of anniversaries, shared with an ever increasing number of users on our beamlines. Twenty eight beamlines have now received photons, since the X-ray beam (...)

The absence of electrical resistance in superconducting materials gives them an enormous interest in terms of applications, in the fields of energy and transport, for example. Until now, however, the (...)

Over the last 20 years, colloidal nanocrystals have excited the interest of researchers because of their luminescence properties or, more recently, their use as a light source for displays. However (...)