First sliced photons identified on CRISTAL!
Published on 10/02/2015
... Several teams from SOLEIL have been collaborating for months on the FEMTOSLICING project, a real technological and scientific challenge. On February 9th 2015, the first photons from the sliced electron bunch have been clearly identified. This is the first ...
Germination, growth and alignment of carbon nanotubes: the contribution of in-situ X-ray diffraction
Published on 13/05/2015
... During their synthesis, carbon nanotubes can adopt a carpet shape organization, nanotubes growing perpendicular to a substrate. Thanks to their mechanical and electrical properties, these carpets are of interest in the field of composite materials, ...
Near-infrared for improved detection of luminescent nano-compounds in living cells
Published on 06/02/2014
... Fluorescence imaging is an emerging technique for biomedical applications. It can be used to observe and track a specific target (constituents of the cell, pathogen, active ingredient, etc.) in real time and in a non-invasive manner. Using the DISCO ...
Imaging shape and strain in nanoscale engineered semiconductors for photonics by coherent x-ray diffraction
Published on 21/09/2020
... Today, quantum dots, nanowire arrays, and buried solid-state nanostructures are examples of components used in innovative functional devices for photonics and optoelectronics, including photonic crystals, with applications like optical computers, or more ...
Hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to methane to reduce CO 2 emissions
Published on 27/11/2019
... Coherent diffraction imaging enables the study of nanocatalysts for hydrogenation in action On SOLEIL’s SIXS beamline, for the first time ever, researchers from Aix-Marseille University (IM2NP laboratory), SOLEIL, ESRF (Grenoble, France), Eindhoven ...
Laureates of the physics Olympics win a VIP visit to SOLEIL!
Published on 23/06/2021
... On June 8 and 9, 2021, we welcomed a group of 4 laureates of the physics Olympics, from Maxence Van Der Meersch high school in Roubaix (France), accompanied by their teacher. Their project, which made them one of the winning groups, consisted of ...
CRISTAL
Published on 14/11/2016
... CRISTALis an undulator-based multi-technique diffraction beamline, dedicated to studies of the structural properties of condensed matter, on different length and time scales, possibly in non-ambient conditions. All the standard techniques for structural ...
Drug translocation across bacterial membrane: New concepts for approaching antibiotic activity
Published on 18/05/2017
... A main challenge in chemotherapy is to determine the in cellulo parameters modulating the drug concentration required for therapeutic action. A method combining spectrofluorimetry and microscopy has been developed by the «Transporteurs Membranaires, ...
Published on 22/02/2023
... On February 1st, 2023, the Health & Well-Being scientific section of SOLEIL organised a day of presentations and discussions for biologists from the plateau de Saclay area, at the Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC, Gif sur Yvette). ...
SOLEIL Highlights 2019
Published on 13/08/2020
... As requested by its Board in December 2018, the year 2019 saw the beginning of work on a Conceptual Design report to prepare for the upgrade of SOLEIL’s installations. This work was done in parallel with the experiments which continue to be carried out on ...
SOLEIL's contribution to Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis
Published on 14/12/2018
... In close collaboration with hospitals, SOLEIL takes part in the design of new methods to diagnose diseases at an early stage and seeks to better understand the evolution of pathologies. Its longterm goal is to develop more adapted treatments, while ...
LE RAYON DE SOLEIL- N°24 THE SYNCHROTRON MAGAZINE
Published on 01/12/2014
... December 2014. The UN proclaimed 2015 as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies, making it a very special year for all of the synchrotron community. Light-related topics are present everywhere in today’s society, and of course at ...
Novel imaging approach reveals how ancient amulet was made
Published on 15/11/2016
... At 6000 years old, this copper amulet is the earliest lost-wax cast object known. Now, researchers have finally discovered how it was made, using a novel UV-visible photoluminescence spectral imaging approach. All the parameters of elaboration process, ...
A new method to identify protein secondary structure and fold
Published on 06/07/2015
... Analysis of the structure of amyloid fibrils of various disease-related proteins, causing pathologies such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntigton’s disease has been the focus of an international research effort between the Neuroimmunology Research ...
Kidney biopsy studies: a combination of several techniques that improves their accuracy
Published on 07/01/2016
... A new step towards more accurate diagnosis for severe or acute renal failure just has been achieved. In a recent study published in Comptes Rendus Chemistry, scientists combined field effect scanning electron microscopy, deep UV fluorescence, Raman ...
SOLEIL is a member of Respore, a Major Research Domain (“Domaine d'Intérêt Majeur”, DIM) funded by the Region Île-de-France
Published on 31/08/2017
... The Synchrotron SOLEIL is a member of Respore (“Réseau d'Excellence en Solides Poreux”, Network of Excellence in Porous Solids), a research network dedicated to analyzing and characterizing porous solid materials, revolving around themes that respond ...
How crowds support biological processes
Published on 01/04/2014
... Biomolecules (proteins, DNA, sugars, etc.) are often studied in purified solutions, where they have as much space to stretch out in as they might want. But in an organism, where thousands of molecules exist side by side and get in each other’s way, ...
SOLEIL’s commitment to fight climate change
Published on 30/11/2015
... From November 30 th to December 11 th, Paris hosts the twenty first conference of the parties on climate, COP21. For two weeks, political meetings and public engagement events will take place regarding environment, global warming and worldwide commitment ...
Holographic imaging of magnetic order: the assets of linear polarization…
Published on 29/02/2012
... Research involving the SOLEIL SEXTANTS beamline team together with researchers at UPMC, Université d'Orsay and the Italian synchrotron ELETTRA, show the potential of using linearly polarized X-rays for imaging magnetic domains in thin layers, as an ...
Multiferroic chiralities revealed by x-ray resonant scattering
Published on 19/12/2019
... A strong collaboration between several groups of Paris-Saclay University namely: the SEXTANTS beamline (SOLEIL synchrotron), the SPEC (UMR3680 CEA-CNRS), the Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales and the Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (CNRS/Univ. Montpellier ...
SOLEIL Highlights 2018
Published on 05/07/2019
... Looking back on 2018… It will be remembered as the year in which SOLEIL welcomed its 10,000th user, a young woman from the University of Cantabria, ten years after the synchrotron opening to users. Find the complete retrospective of the year 2018 and a ...
Nanocrystals and droplets: a miniature system to study the impact of proteins on biomass components
Published on 05/09/2023
... The production of agrifoods, biofuels or biobased materials can involve the transformation of biomass. At the molecular level, cellulose polymers, a major polysaccharide component of plant matter, are transformed via reactions involving proteins such as ...
What if there was less fat in fried food products?
Published on 06/07/2016
... Software simulating oil absorption has been developed and tested. It reveals the dynamics of oil penetration into food according to the level of damage in the tissues and cooling conditions (see also this news). These data open the way to new strategies ...
Bursting Bubbles- A Holographic Examination of “Magnetic Biskyrmions” on SEXTANTS
Published on 19/04/2019
... Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscopic vortices of magnetisation, which promise exciting new applications in spintronic devices due to their novel topological and transport properties. In a recent successful collaboration between the team at the SEXTANTS ...
A classic revisited at SEXTANTS beamline: New states and wavefunction imaging in the N2 molecule
Published on 22/05/2021
... For decades, scientists have referred to the measurement of the spectrum of the diatomic molecule N 2 to calibrate "soft" X-rays (energy less than 2000 eV) absorption spectroscopy experiments, or to optimize a beamline implementing this ...
Profile of Corentin Chatelier, awarded twice for his thesis work carried out on the SIXS beamline
Published on 18/10/2022
... Corentin Chatelier defended his thesis, entitled "On the surface structures and catalytic properties of aluminum-based intermetallics" on December 15, 2020. His work, carried out on the SIXS beamline and at the Jean Lamour institute in Nancy, ...
SOLEIL Highlights 2014
Published on 06/02/2015
... The 2014 International Year of Crystallography ends and gives way to the 2015 International Year of Light. Whatever the chosen scientific theme, it always enters the field of research conducted at SOLEIL.. Browse the electronic version of the SOLEIL ...
3D imaging of in situ enzymatic reactions
Published on 24/07/2014
... Green chemistry is booming, fueled by the growing interest in probiotics (and their impact on human health) and biofuel production. Thereby, the scientific community is increasing studies on the enzymatic degradation of biopolymers such as starch and ...
10 years of collaboration SOLEIL/INRA
Published on 26/01/2017
... It is now 10 years since INRA and SOLEIL have engaged a fruitful collaboration, which relies on the presence of INRA who work on secondment on SOLEIL beamlines. A booklet,published in January 2017,gathers thirty examples of scientific researches ...
DISCO
Published on 29/08/2016
... DISCO is a VUV to visible beamline dedicated to biochemistry, chemistry and cell biology. The spectral region is optimised between 60 and 700 nm with conservation of the natural polarization of the light. DISCO Matériaux avancés Biologie Santé Phase Gaz ...
SEXTANTS
Published on 04/05/2012
... SEXTANTS beamline is dedicated to the study of magnetic and electronics properties of solids by polarized soft x-ray elastic and inelastic scattering. The beamline cover the energy range from 50- 1800 eV (optimized from 70 to 1200eV) SEXTANTS The purpose ...
Lithium batteries
Published on 12/04/2013
... Any improvement in battery performance will come about through a better understanding of the overall functioning of the various components: electrodes, electrolytes and interfaces. Two studies are presented here on positive and negative electrode ...
Radiotherapy: a new method to localize unlabeled nanoparticles in tumor cells
Published on 06/03/2015
... To improve radiotherapy techniques, several studies have looked at the possibility of adding nanoparticles, especially when treating certain aggressive tumors, such as glioblastoma cells (the most common brain tumor). However, these particles are ...
Whooping cough: a "disordered" bait catches calmodulin and triggers the CyaA toxin
Published on 16/02/2018
... The CyaA protein is a toxin produced by the bacteria that causes whooping cough. During intoxication of the target cells, CyaA binds to calmodulin, which induces the folding of a destructured region of the toxin and its activation. This mechanism is ...
Scientists reveal the third dimension of magnetic skyrmion tubes
Published on 25/05/2020
... An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, the Universities of Southampton, Exeter, Warwick and Cambridge, and 3 synchrotrons-BESSY II, SOLEIL and Diamond- coordinated by Prof. Peter Hatton, ...
June 2nd, 2020: reopening of SOLEIL to users
Published on 02/06/2020
... In accordance with French government recommendations to limit the spread of the CoVD-19 epidemic, SOLEIL management is organizing a very gradual resumption of activity. Thus, the accelerators were restarted on May 21, and the synchrotron light is back on ...
Synchrotron SOLEIL actively participates in SARS-CoV-2 research
Published on 04/08/2020
... In the combat against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the French National Research Agency (ANR) launched a call for projects at the beginning of March 2020, for the funding of targeted research topics on the study of the virus. In a concerted effort to advance our ...
It’s winding spins and beams
Published on 25/10/2021
... In the current race to design fast, dense and energy-efficient information storage devices, spintronics (electronics that exploit the spin property of electrons) are on the lookout for ever smaller bits that move quickly within their substrate, are easily ...
IMDEA Energy Institute develops a new material that open the gates to the solar fuels production
Published on 11/01/2022
... The generation of green fuels (e.g. H 2) is nowadays a very important research topic associated to the growing energy demand. Photocatalysis appears as a challenging path to produce H 2 just from water. An international collaboration between scientists ...
How to break sugars molecules with light, and what for?
Published on 22/04/2014
... A research team from INRA Nantes used an innovative method based on mass spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation of DISCO beamline to photoactivate sugars, whose valorisation presents a real economic interest for several industries (food-processing ...
Self-assembled vertically aligned epitaxial ferromagnetic alloy nanowires: a combinatorial approach
Published on 27/08/2013
... Researchers at the Paris NanoSciences Institute (CNRS-UPMC), in collaboration with groups at SOLEIL and UVSQ, have developed a new technique for growing epitaxial alloy nanowire arrays in a matrix. These results are published in the journal ACS Nano. ...
Plant oils and their derivatives. Structural study of an oleosin, a protein at the heart of energetic and medical issues
Published on 26/08/2013
... In the current context, with fossil fuels running out and high priority of environmental protection, the valorization of oil from biomass for energy and green chemistry is of increasing interest. The goal is to replace products of fossil origin with ...
Gum arabic reveals its secrets
Published on 21/01/2014
... Scientists of UMR IATE (Montpellier) and INRA (Nantes) have been studying gum arabic for the past few years, a bio-sourced material widely exploited in many sectors, such as the agri-food industry and particularly the wine industry, as well as the ...
SIXS
Published on 14/11/2016
... SixS (Surfaces interfaces x-ray Scattering)is a wide-energy range(5-20 keV) beamlinededicated to structural studies of interfaces (gas-solid, solid-solid or solid-liquid), as well as nano-objects. SIXS SixS (Surfaces interfaces X-ray Scattering) is a ...