The Solid State Physics Laboratory warmly congratulates Mathieu Kociak, CNRS Research Director, on receiving the 2026 Peter Duncumb Award for Excellence in Microanalysis, one of the highest international distinctions awarded …
Physicists have shown that adding liquid droplets to a soft solid allows for precise control of its energy dissipation, revealing a hybrid behavior between a gel and an emulsion. Hybrid …
Researchers from the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides (LPS), in collaboration with several partners, have revealed that ion transport in ionic liquids is governed by a heterogeneous nanostructured organization, providing …
Researchers at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides (LPS) have directly observed the organization of chromatin at the core of cells in Drosophila embryos, in a state close to that …
Physicists at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides (CNRS / Université Paris-Saclay) have developed a method to measure the thickness of thin liquid films down to just a few nanometers. …
What is the connection between the Fibonacci chain, a material without periodicity—and the quantum Hall effect in a two-dimensional crystal? This is the question addressed by Anuradha Jagannathan (CNRS, Laboratoire …
The LPS 2025 Highlights booklet is now online. It presents the main scientific achievements, distinctions, and key moments that shaped the life of the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides throughout …
Researchers have explained the mechanism by which identical proteins manage to organise themselves and form the perfectly symmetrical capsids of most viruses Single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) viruses represent the largest and …
The discovery of new, cost-effective materials free of precious metals, while maintaining high catalytic performance, is of great interest for the electrochemical dissociation of water. A consortium led by researchers …
Physicists at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides (CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay) have developed a new method to dynamically control the circular polarization of light by self-assembling chiral metallic nanoparticles. This result, …
