VIDEOS

The sulphur emitted during the combustion of fuels in vehicle engines forms sulphur oxides, which contribute to acid rain, and it also participates to increased greenhouse gas emissions. The SAMBA (...)

Studies in the field of spintronics require advanced techniques. The SOLEIL synchrotron’s CASSIOPEE beamline offers a unique and powerful technique for that purpose: spin-resolved photoemission. Get (...)

Video in French - Discover an experiment developed by a team from LCPMR (Laboratory of Physical Chemistry-Matter and Radiation) on the TEMPO beamline. The purpose of this experiment is to monitor (...)

Video in French - Zeolites, which were discovered in 1756 by a Swedish mineralogist, are rocks capable of separating molecules according to their size. The SWING beamline is proving well suited for (...)

Video in French - The SAMBA beamline is used to perform numerous experiments in the field of soft chemistry. This field of chemistry implements reactions in aqueous media at ambient pressure and (...)

Video in French - The scanning tunnelling microscope (developed by IBM laboratories in Zurich in 1981), uses a very sharp tip consisting of only a few atoms which hovers over the surface of a sample (...)

Video in French - GMR read heads are used in computer hard drives. But what is their function? What are they made of? What is giant magnetoresistance? Where does it come from? What does it make (...)

Video in French - Nanoparticles were already used in ancient Rome and during the Middle Ages to colour glass cups or make stained glass iridescent. But the phenomenon remained a mystery until the (...)

Video in French - Nanostructures – structures about a hundred nanometres long, which diffract light – are used to create new optical instruments by imitating nature. What applications are being (...)

Video in French - A nanometre represents one billionth of a metre. Numerous nano-sized objects may be found in nature, but man is now capable of producing them as well...

Researchers at INSERM have decided to enlist the DISCO beamline’s UV radiation to study the changes to our skeletal system caused by osteoporosis and the effectiveness of treatments...

« Moon milk » is a strange substance that covers the walls of some prehistoric caves, sometimes erasing parietal works. What is it made of ?