Highlights 2016

Table of contents:

SURFACES, INTERFACES AND NANOSYSTEMS

p. 18 - The smaller, the better: nanoARPES uncover topological behavior and quantum transport in nanowires
p. 20 - Transport properties at the atomic scale in conducting polymers: an ARPES view
p. 22 - Interlayer coupling in nickelate-manganite superlattices
p. 24 - Electronic properties of Van Der Waals GaSe/graphene heterostructure
p. 26 - In situ X-ray studies of the early stages of ZnO atomic layer deposition

CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, NANOCHEMISTRY

p. 30 - Nominee for the best supporting role: the alumina surface for cleaning fuels
p. 32 - Cobalt doping in the spinel structure of magnetosome magnetite: first evidence from element-and site-specific XMCD analyses
p. 34 - Strongly modified water network in small diameter carbon nanotubes
p. 36 - Standing-wave X-ray fluorescence yields element distributions in biomolecular layers
p. 38 - The early stages of reactive particle nucleation from solution

BIOLOGY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

p. 42 - How histidine kinases control phosphatase and phosphotransferase reactions in bacterial signaling
p. 44 - Study of PB1-F2 β-aggregated structures revealed by synchrotron infrared and deep UV fluorescent microspectroscopy in influenza A virius-infected cells
p. 46 - Visualizing the ascent of sap in plants
p. 48 - Disordered calcium phase is involved in coccolith formation
p. 50 - Structural basis of potent antibody cross-neutralization between Zika and dengue viruses

ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS, DILUTE MATTER, UNIVERSE SCIENCE

p. 54 - First photoelectron study of multiply-charged ions
p. 56 - Individual gas-phase cytosine conformers identified by slow photoelectron spectroscopy and explicitly correlated calculations
p. 58 - Dimethyl sulfide and the mystery of the missing sulfur in the interstellar mediums
p. 60 - What dictates handedness in flexible chiral molecules?
p. 62 - Hard X-rays induce a MUST ultrafast dissociation phenomenon

PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF HARD CONDENSED MATTER, EARTH SCIENCES

p. 66 - Covalency, a new knob for tuning interfacial properties of matter
p. 68 - Strontium as a palaeoenvironmental proxy in fish otoliths: incorporation and stability
p. 70 - Mysteries of icosahedral quasicrystal atomic structure solved?
p. 72 - A chiral magnet unveiling its secrets under pressure
p. 74 - Structural stability of pyrochlore oxides

MODELING, METHODOLOGY AND INSTRUMENTATION

p. 78 - Extending hybrid pixel sensors detection capability with fast feedback loop
p. 80 - A unique tool for high resolution absorption spectroscopy in the VUV
p. 82 - A new, state-of-the-art detector for the mid infrared light
p. 84 - Optimized VUV synchrotron beamline design
p. 86 - MAGSTAT: a high vacuum gap-variable permanent rotary magnets quadrupole

ACCELERATORS AND ENGINEERING DIVISION

p. 90 - First application of genetic algorithm to optimize the SOLEIL storage ring beam synamics
p. 92 - A terahertz oscilloscope for direct observation of electron bunch synamics
p. 94 - Making SOLEIL canted in-vacuum undulators working seamlessly