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Published on 25/11/2025"Unattended mode" - a new access mode available at SOLEIL for macromolecular (...)
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).Read more -
Published on 20/11/2025Hydrogen production – a promising electrocatalyst based on clay nanotubes
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 (...)Read more -
Published on 12/11/2025From soot particles to stardust: Mysteries of their formation revealed by synchrotron (...)
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 (...)Read more -
Published on 04/11/2025Ammonia oxidation – Platinum nanoparticles caught in action
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 (...)Read more -
Published on 31/10/2025Five African researchers visit the Synchrotron SOLEIL
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 (...)Read more -
Published on 31/10/2025Bacterial architects build network-like membrane structures to feed more efficiently
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 (...)Read more -
Published on 14/10/2025MOFs take center stage with the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — and at SOLEIL, too!
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 (...)Read more -
Published on 10/10/2025Materials science – When the surface reaches deep inside…
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 (...)Read more -
Published on 01/10/2025SOLEIL will be present at the Village des Sciences at the ENS Paris-Saclay, October 4-5 (...)
On Saturday October 4 and Sunday October 5, SOLEIL will once again be taking part in the annual Fête de la Science (Science Festival), offering the public the chance to discover SOLEIL and science (...)Read more -
Published on 30/09/2025Portrait of François Trias - "I bring an industrial perspective to the world of research (...)
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 (...)Read more -
Published on 29/09/2025ReMade@ARI final call : materials research for the circular economy - Ongoing Call – (...)
Working on materials for Circular Economy? Get access to European Research Infrastructures by submitting a proposal on ReMade@ARI portal.Read more -
Published on 24/09/2025World-first at SOLEIL: 3D X-ray imaging of pressurized hydrogen-induced damage in steel (...)
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 (...)Read more