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Researcher at the Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff" at the University of Florence, Mónica Ledesma Motolinía has been working for several years on soft condensed matter, active matter and (...)

Cuneiform tablets are among the oldest written records in human history. Some show salt layers formed after millennia underground, which can crack the clay and completely cover the inscriptions (...)

The new edition of our Highlights brings together 45 standout achievements selected from the approximately 700 articles published in 2024, resulting from the research undertaken both on SOLEIL's (...)

Scientist from the National Institute for R&D in Microtechnologies (IMT) in Bucharest, Cosmin Romanitan has strong expertise in laboratory-based X-ray diffraction on different types of nanomaterials (...)

Through a series of portraits, SOLEIL goes out to meet the people who make the synchrotron what it is. For this fourth episode, Stéphanie Belin, a scientist on the ROCK beamline, played along. From (...)

Ever since the discovery of graphene, research on two-dimensional (2D) materials is ongoing a tremendous effort. Along with this trend, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) are extremely promising (...)

More than 15 years after the opening to our users, SOLEIL takes stock of the important results obtained thanks to the beamlines during this period. Thus, we invite you to discover a series of thematic (...)

Vitamin D is known for its anti-cancer activities, notably on prostate cancer progression, but it is of limited clinical use. Scientists from the Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et (...)

Organized by the PhotoEmission Spectroscopy Research Federation (FR SPE), the JNSPE 2025 conference, held in Lyon from May 14 to 16, recognized Marine Fournier, a final-year PhD student, with the Best (...)

How did the earliest life forms manage to endure the extreme conditions of their environment, such as chemically toxic surroundings? When did they begin to develop survival strategies? An (...)

Metal borides have emerged as promising sulfur electrocatalysts for lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries. However, optimizing their electrocatalytic activity and understanding the underlying mechanism (...)

A brief recap of the online lecture series on synchrotron radiation techniques that took place in April 2025