In collaboration with the research groups of Prof. Piotr Kuśtrowski (Jagiellonian University) and Prof. Jarosław Handzlik (Cracow University of Technology), as well as with Dr. Alexey Maximenko (SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre, Jagiellonian University), the group led by Prof. Piotr Michorczyk developed a simple and efficient method for generating active sites on the surface of oxide catalysts for olefin metathesis. The researchers demonstrated that short-term treatment of a molybdenum-based catalyst in a propane stream at 550–650 °C increases its metathesis activity by one to two orders of magnitude.

Scientists from the Chiroptical Spectroscopy Group: Mateusz Pawlak, dr. Aleksandra Wajda, Zofia Rejman, and prof. Agnieszka Kaczor, in collaboration with researchers from the SOLARIS Centre: dr. Maciej Roman and prof. Tomasz Wróbel, have published a paper describing the remarkable optical properties of chiral carbon dots (C-Dots) derived from L- or D-cysteine.

A new publication presents a comprehensive analysis that strengthens the foundations of single particle cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo EM), one of the most powerful techniques currently available for visualizing biological structures at near atomic resolution. The research was conducted by a team of scientists from the SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre, in collaboration with a representative of the Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology at the Jagiellonian University.

The team of researchers working at the CIRI beamline conducted advanced studies on imaging 3D orientation changes in semicrystalline materials with submicron resolution, using state of the art infrared microscopy. By employing the O PTIR technique and linearly polarized radiation, the scientists were able to track subtle changes in molecular orientation within polymer materials subjected to various thermal processes with exceptional precision.

Scientists from the University of Lodz’s Faculty of Physics and Applied Informatics, together with their collaborators, utilising the SOLARIS synchrotron radiation source, have unveiled insights into the electronic properties of a novel van der Waals heterostructure combining graphene and type-II Weyl semimetal Td-WTe₂. Published in the journal Nanoscale, the study reveals the coexistence of Dirac cones from graphene and Fermi arcs from WTe₂, demonstrating how interlayer interactions reshape band structures for advanced quantum applications. This discovery may pave the way for twistronics and next-generation electronics by highlighting tunable quantum phenomena.