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SURFACES, INTERFACES AND NANOSYSTEMS
16 The virtuous Graphene goes out of the Labs, increasing its production up to industrial scale
18 Approaching the Holy Grail of spintronics
20 “Bad metals” and “good superconductors”
22 Nitric acid on water ice: the chemical-physics behind a key pollutant of the Earth’s cryosphere
24 Observation of topological electronic states in α-Sn films
26 Oxide electronics - Static and dynamic electronic properties of a ferroelectric device
28 Hydrogen-induced nanotunnel opening at the subsurface of an advanced semiconductor, Silicon Carbide
CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, NANOCHEMISTRY
34 Active sites of metalloproteins in solution revealed by vibrational spectroscopy
36 Self-structuring of bridged silsesquioxanes through covalent and non-covalent bonding
38 New insights into short ordered Fe-Al oxyhydroxide coprecipitates
40 Bone growth regulation: how does osteopontin bind uranium?
42 High capacity Li-rich layered compounds for Li-ion batteries
44 Probing spin-spin interactions in surface-supported single-molecule magnets
46 Fluorescent nanoplatelets pile-up
48 Coupling XANES and DFT calculations to unravel the structure of heterogeneous catalysts
BIOLOGY AND HEALTH SCIENCES
54 Polymorphic and amyloid natures of neuronal inclusions of Huntington’s disease brain revealed by IR microspectroscopy
56 Characterization of hydrophobic peptides by photoionization Mass Spectrometry
58 MAN1 at the nuclear envelope blocks TGF-β signaling by stimulating dephosphorylation of the Smad transcription factors
60 Synchrotron radiation - tandem mass spectrometry for proteomic and structural biology
62 Atomic structure of 14-subunit RNA polymerase I: insight into ribosomal RNA synthesis
64 The novel RNase P in action
66 The function of translation initiation factor IF2 analyzed by an integrated structural biology approach
68 Crystal structure of the crystallographer MamP
ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS, DILUTE MATTER, UNIVERSE SCIENCE
74 Advanced studies of molecular ions by resonant photoemission
76 Unravelling coupled electronic and nuclear angular momenta
78 Spectroscopy of the 15NH2 radical
80 New routes to dissociation: the fourth way
82 Chirality reveals electronic/nuclear motion couplings
84 Young´s double slit experiment revisited at the atomic level
86 Nanosolvation-induced stabilization of a protonated peptide dimer isolated in the gas phase
88 Photoelectron circular dichroism on gas phase alanine: a possible photophysical process at the origin of life’s homochirality?
PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF CONDENSED MATTER, EARTH SCIENCES
94 Synchrotron UV/visible imaging discriminates historical pigments
96 Programming the self-assembly of alloy nanowires: a combinatorial approach
98 Why do γ-Fe nanoparticles inside carbon nanotubes abnormally expanse at high temperature?
100 Terahertz magneto-electric excitations in a chiral compound
102 Molecular refrigerators
104 Caffeine in cosmetics – optimizing its release into the body by means of ”MOFs”
106 Resonant magnetic x-ray scattering on artificial spin ice
108 LuFe2 O4+x: from multi-ferroicity to oxygen storage
MODELING, METHODOLOGY AND INSTRUMENTATION
114 SPI Boards Package a flexible multipurpose set of boards for various scientific applications
116 An in-house developed X-ray imaging detector for synchrotron based micro-tomography
118 A new double charged particle imaging spectrometer for gas phase VUV photoionization studies
120 Development of high performance heat transfer devices for synchrotron facilities
122 A new tool for greenhouse gases Infrared absorption modelling
124 A versatile source to make complex nanoscopic objects fly under vacuum
126 Simultaneous fast-scanning XRF, dark field, phase-, and absorption contrast tomography
128 The secondary source of NANOSCOPIUM
SOURCES AND ACCELERATORS DIVISION
134 Storage ring operation status: performance and evolutions
136 News on the storage ring optics: operation performance improvement
138 W164: one insertion device for two purposes
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SOLEIL HIGHLIGHTS 2013
HIGHLIGHTS 2013