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PhD candidate at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland), Aleksandra Krajcer works on the preparation and functionalisation of biomaterials. As part of the NEPHEWS (...)

From March 16 to 20, 2026, 24 young scientists from around the world are being welcomed at Synchrotron SOLEIL for an intensive training week as part of the HERCULES European School (Higher European (...)

Researchers from Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) and their collaborators used NanoARPES at SOLEIL’s ANTARES beamline to reveal how a moiré pattern in rhombohedral graphene fundamentally (...)

The prize recognizes young scholars who are judged to have defended the most outstanding PhD thesis in the field of physical chemistry in 2025. The award winner is selected by a scientific committee (...)

After conducting a first series of highly conclusive test measurements in October 2024 on the PSICHE beamline , two archaeologists from the Archaeology Department of the City of Orléans returned in (...)

After conducting a first series of highly conclusive test measurements in October 2024 on the PSICHE beamline , two archaeologists from the Archaeology Department of the City of Orléans returned in (...)

Researchers from the Centre des Matériaux – Mines Paris (PSL) have achieved a world-first at the SOLEIL synchrotron: real-time 3D X-ray imaging of steel deformation and fracture under pressurized (...)

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 the SOLEIL (...)

The entire SOLEIL Synchrotron team wishes you a happy new year in 2026!

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 (...)

You can now book your group visit for the period March–July 2026.

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 (...)