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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 (...)

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 (...)