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Published on 09.15.2024

A crystal with sponge-like properties

At the synchrotron SOLEIL, researchers come to study a material with astonishing properties: a powder, each grain of which is made up of molecules organized in the form of crystals which, at the nanometric scale, behave like sponges. These sponges absorb hydrogen in particular, and could be useful, for example, in designing the fuel tanks for tomorrow's hydrogen-powered cars.

Publié le 06.25.2024

A talisman against Yazdanduk

At SOLEIL, research on the little mysterious talisman continues.

Publié le 02.20.2024

Flax from past to present

What do mummy strips and the hull of a boat have in common? Both contain flax fibres! Much appreciated by the Egyptians, this plant material with its many qualities is now being studied with a view...

Publié le 12.22.2023

A talisman with plenty of character(s)

3.5 cm long, 1.5 cm in diameter... This small talisman, which may soon join the collections of the Musée des Écritures d'Ampus in the Haut-Var county of France, is very mysterious, and above all,...

Publié le 11.06.2023

Stepping on the accelerator for hydrogen production

Water and electricity to produce hydrogen: this is the electrolysis of water, a reaction that many high school students have performed during chemistry practicals. A seemingly simple reaction, but "...

Publié le 07.13.2022

Jurassic Park at Synchrotron SOLEIL

What do SOLEIL and the cinema have in common? As the third part of the Jurassic World film series is released in cinemas, we invite you to go back to the origins of the saga through research carried...

Publié le 11.15.2021

The dust messengers

In the summer of 2021, a few milligrams of dust grains collected on the asteroid Ryugu more than 340 million kilometers from Earth, as part of the Japanese space mission Hayabusa-2, could be analyzed...

Publié le 09.14.2018

Water, air… clean fuels

Over 40 billion tons of CO₂are emitted every year due to human activities. What can we do with this waste? In Nature, plants capture CO₂and transform it into plant material (...

Publié le 01.31.2018

Legacy phosphorus

From the 1950s, the Seine, like all rivers in France, suffered the consequences of the growth of cities and agriculture intensification. Massive quantities of chemical fertilizer and wastewater...

Publié le 11.10.2017

Shedding light on tumor cells

How can a neurosurgeon be sure that he removed the totality of the tumour from his patient's brain, while preserving healthy neighbouring tissues ? To help the practitioner, researchers and...

Publié le 10.09.2017

Hair in the spotlight

Enhance the understanding of the chemical composition and the structure of tissues such as hair, skin, nails, better characterize the products themselves (shampooes, creams, their long-term stability...

Publié le 08.01.2016

Drought means stress

Trees are suffering from global warming. Due to droughts that are too intense and too frequent, entire forest massifs are dying. Many coniferous trees could be under the spotlight. To identify the...