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Publié le 05/10/2018

Radiotherapy: repair proteins in search of the ring to protect DNA

To understand why some cancer cells resist radiotherapy, an international team of researchers has used crystallography to “photograph” the first moments of the molecular ballet that allows these...

Publié le 04/10/2018

Publication in Nature Materials retracted

Information: September 27^th, 2018: The article "Large local lattice expansion in graphene adlayers grown on copper", by Chaoyu Chen, José Avila, Hakim Arezki, Van Luan Nguyen,...

Publié le 28/09/2018

Energy transition and dihydrogen - Revealing the mysteries of high activity in...

Recent numbers regarding the climate change are alarming. They call for an urgent change in our energy production in order to reduce our carbon emissions that are responsible for the greenhouse...

Publié le 17/07/2018

A new detector on DIFFABS for fast measurements of X-ray diffraction images

Following a joint project undertaken by the ImXPAD Company and SOLEIL with a development time of more than three years, a ‘CirPAD’ detector was installed in May 2018 on the diffractometer of the...

Publié le 02/07/2018

Molecules for quantum computing: how to integrate them into devices

Integration of quantum information hardware into scalable and robust solid-state architectures will be key to allow performing quantum computation, one of the pillars of the recently launched EU...

Publié le 22/06/2018

SOLEIL Highlights 2017

2017 will be remembered as the first year with all 29 SOLEIL beamlines receiving photons. An increasing number of operational experimental stations is available, with the opening to...

Publié le 15/06/2018

How does a nanotube roll up?

“Nanotube” and “butanone”, “small” and “malls”, “atom” and “moat”: these anagrams illustrate how meaning comes from the association of the letters of the alphabet. In the same way, the properties of...

Publié le 08/06/2018

The structures in the Sn – Sb phase diagram recently regained interest due to their occurrence in lead free solder. To predict the stability of a solder joint, all possibly appearing intermetallic...

Publié le 30/05/2018

How is intracellular calcite formation in coccolithophorid algae supplied with calcium?

To build the hard scaly shells that enclose their cells, coccolithophorid algae produce calcitic scales within an intracellular calcifying compartment and secrete them onto the cell surface. The...