| SOLEIL : HIGHLIGHTS 2013 | 1 |
| SURFACES, INTERFACES AND NANOSYSTEMS | 15 |
| 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 | 30 |
| CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, NANOCHEMISTRY | 33 |
| 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 | 50 |
| BIOLOGY AND HEALTH SCIENCES | 53 |
| 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 | 70 |
| ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS, DILUTE MATTER, UNIVERSE SCIENCE | 73 |
| 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 homochi | 90 |
| PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF CONDENSED MATTER, EARTH SCIENCES | 93 |
| 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 |
| LuFe2O4+x: from multi-ferroicity to oxygen storage | 110 |
| MODELING, METHODOLOGY AND INSTRUMENTATION | 113 |
| 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 | 130 |
| SOURCES AND ACCELERATORS DIVISION | 133 |