A team of researchers from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow, in collaboration with the SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre and the University of Warsaw, conducted advanced studies on nanostructured catalysts based on cerium oxide and gold. The aim of the work was to understand the catalytic mechanisms occurring during the electrochemical oxidation of ethanol, a reaction of key importance for modern energy technologies and fuel cells.

A research team led by Prof. Magdalena Szczerbowska-Boruchowska, DSc, Eng., from the Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science at AGH University of Krakow, and Dr Agata Ziomber-Lisiak, DSc, from the Faculty of Medicine of the Jagiellonian University Medical College, demonstrated that the early stage of metabolic disturbances caused by excessive body adiposity is accompanied by an increase in rubidium (Rb) levels in brain structures involved in appetite regulation. The study was published in Brain Structure & Function.

Researchers at the Jagiellonian University have developed a new Prussian Blue analogue that exhibits ferrimagnetic ordering at a record-high temperature exceeding 400 K (127 °C). The discovery, reported in the Advanced Science article “Heavy Prussian Blue Analog with Magnetic Ordering above 400 K”, concerns a cyanide-bridged molecular magnet composed of vanadium(II) and molybdenum(III) ions, which replace the traditional iron ions found in the Prussian Blue structure. The experimental work described in the publication was carried out at SOLARIS on the ASTRA beamline.

A collaborative team from MagTop, the Institute of Physics PAS in Warsaw and the URANOS beamline researchers at the SOLARIS Synchrotron, has unveiled an unexpected transformation in the 2D quantum material NbSe₂. The article published in Physical Review B, titled ‘Magnetic frustration enforced electronic reconstruction in Ni-intercalated NbSe₂: Suppression of electronic orders’ demonstrates that introducing nickel atoms into the crystal, forces electronic reconstruction, eliminating its characteristic such as superconductivity and charge ordering due to magnetic frustration.

Research Team lead by professor Grzegorz Dubin from the Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology (MCB), Jagiellonian University, together with collaborators from the Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, has uncovered how the peroxisomal import machinery of Trypanosoma cruzi – a human pathogen, adapts structural heterogeneity to transport folded enzymes across membranes. The findings, recently published in Nature Communications provide a detailed structural insight into this essential biological process.