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Through a series of portraits, SOLEIL sets out to meet the people who make the synchrotron what it is. For this sixth episode, Edwige Otero, a scientist on DEIMOS—one of SOLEIL’s 29 beamlines—agreed (...)

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Nanodiamonds (NDs) are under active investigation for their unique properties and potential applications in energy harvesting, quantum technologies, and nanomedicine. The surface chemistry of diamond (...)

Synchrotron SOLEIL is expanding its offering for industry by opening up a new access mode on the PROXIMA-1 and PROXIMA-2A beamlines, dedicated to macromolecular crystallography (MX).

Hydrogen is one of the avenues explored to replace fossil fuels. Producing hydrogen by splitting water is a possible pathway, but it requires the use of catalysts that are often made of scarce (...)

The formation of soot particles during the incomplete combustion of fuels is both a major environmental challenge on Earth and a model system for understanding the formation of carbon grains in (...)

Ammonia oxidation is a key reaction in the chemical industry, essential for global agriculture and mining, and it also helps limit emissions of this irritating and polluting gas. A SOLEIL team, in (...)

From September 24 to 26, El-Eulmi Bendeif, scientist on the CRISTAL beamline, welcomed five African researchers, along with Emmanuel Wenger and Yohann Vuillemard, respectively engineer and technician (...)

Press release - The cereal weevil, one of the world’s main crop pests, harbors symbiotic bacteria that live inside its cells. Scientists from INRAE and INSA Lyon, in collaboration with experts from (...)

When a rigid aluminum-based MOF becomes flexible... Long considered rigid by the MOF (Metal–Organic Frameworks) research community, the aluminum-based material DUT-5(Al) has now revealed a remarkable (...)

Crystalline surfaces often exhibit reconstructions, usually assumed to affect only a few atomic layers below the surface. A collaborative study (conducted by the Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques (...)

Through a series of portraits, SOLEIL introduces the people who make the synchrotron what it is. In this fifth installment, François Trias steps into the spotlight. Hired over two years ago as part of (...)