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Looking back on 2018… It will be remembered as the year in which SOLEIL welcomed its 10,000th user, a young woman from the University of Cantabria, ten years after the synchrotron opening to users (...)

Relativistic electron-bunches producing the light in synchrotron radiation facilities are complex media. In particular, when the bunch charge is important, micro-structures appear spontaneously inside (...)

Crystallography is one of the most widely used methods for the study of the 3D architecture of biomolecules (proteins, RNA, DNA). However, the most delicate stage in this technique is the production (...)

Biomasses are organic residuals and waste from agriculture, forests and other human activities; they represent one of the greatest carbon sources in nature (800 Mt in dry matter biomass is harvested (...)

A first operational nanometric transfer standard For several years now, the Optics Metrology Laboratory in Optics Group at SOLEIL (LMO) has benefited from LNE (Laboratoire National de metrologie et d (...)

The development of structured materials on a nanometric scale by molecular brick self-assembly is a major scientific challenge that meets many of todays societal demands. These compounds involve a (...)

Carbon dioxide (CO 2) is a ubiquitous element in the Earth's volcanic systems. A large amount of volcanic CO 2 is propelled from the mantle to the surface of the Earth by unique rocks called (...)

Biradicals are molecules with two unpaired electrons. The simplest and best known examples of biradicals are oxygen (O 2) and ozone (O 3), but other biradicals appear in combustion processes or as (...)

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscopic vortices of magnetisation, which promise exciting new applications in spintronic devices due to their novel topological and transport properties. In a recent (...)

Since 2018, UNESCO has declared that May 16 is the International Day of Light.

Many private innovators are today facing difficult problems on materials surface characterization. The development of reliable and convenient probing techniques could however change the game in a (...)

Bimetallic materials have opened a new pathway that could control the electronic structure and chemical bonding in catalysts, resulting in superior catalytic performance. Despite considerable focus on (...)