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Publié le 12/04/2023

Profiling the liquid-vapor interface at the angström scale

What do the first few nanometers of the interface between a liquid and the surrounding gas look like, at the molecular level? Such a question is far from simple to be answered, and experimental...

Publié le 03/04/2023

Imaging complex magnetic patterns in 3D

Ferromagnetic materials* have a non-zero spontaneous magnetisation at the nanoscopic scale. However, due to the competition of forces at play in the material, the local magnetic moments can form...

Publié le 28/03/2023

First Structure of Pathogenic protein Huntingtin and its Link with Huntington’s Disease

Huntington’s disease (HD) is a deadly neurodegenerative pathology that develops in individuals that have more than 35 consecutive glutamine amino acids at one extremity of a protein called huntingtin...

Publié le 28/03/2023

Dirac electrons in blue phosphorene monolayer

Physicists have for the first time synthesized and characterized a blue phosphorene sheet with a metallic-like electronic structure and thus discovered a new two-dimensional material with properties...

Publié le 15/03/2023

Molecular mechanism of LDL cholesterol regulation

In a crucial step towards understanding the mechanisms of cardiovascular disease and certain cancers, a research team has achieved a world first: finding the molecular mechanism by which the PCSK9...

Publié le 07/03/2023

Using Light to Connect Biomolecules

Molecular clusters are aggregates of molecules that are held together non-covalently, by relatively weak forces such as hydrogen bonds and van-der-Waals forces. An interesting question is whether one...

Publié le 27/02/2023

Rare earth elements are trapped inside the vessels of the conductive tissues of an...

Rare earth elements (REEs) are strategic metals strongly involved in low-carbon energy conversion. However, these emerging contaminants are increasingly disseminated into ecosystems, raising concern...

Publié le 27/02/2023

Probing subtle conformational changes in chiral gas phase molecules

Chirality plays a fundamental role in molecular recognition processes, as those involved in metabolism. Molecular flexibility is also crucial in molecular recognition, allowing the interacting...

Publié le 14/02/2023

A molecular catalyst able to form carbon-carbon bonds from CO₂

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) is a natural greenhouse gas, whose overproduction by humans (notably through the combustion of fossil fuels) contributes to global warming. But this industrial waste...