Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste is a multidisciplinary research center of excellence, open to the international research community, specialized in generating high quality synchrotron and free-electron laser light and applying it in materials and life sciences.		Top Stories Structural biology shedding light on glycogen metabolism in brain 2D-3D hybrid nanomaterials graphene coated nickel foams for hydrogen storage Ultrafast spectroscopy complex dynamics of a ring-opening reaction Multiferroic heterostructures changes in magnetism regulated by photostriction   What's New Johanna Leissner from Fraunhofer welcomed in Elettra Ambassador of Israel to Italy visits Elettra The hidden secrets of Stradivari's violins in the ACS Webinars Elettra in the November 2022 Platinum issue Elettra on Newton in 'Luci della Ricerca’ Elettra and Paul Scherrer Institut Workshop Elettra’s researchers at the CONTACT-Science@CERIC 2022 workshop New drugs against COVID discovered thanks to measurements on IUVS CERIC-ERIC news: SISSI involved in the Stradivarius study Elettra’s delegation at the LEAPS 5th Plenary Meeting at PSI Events Full list Friday, 14 October 2022 | Trieste Wayforlight experience brought in the ICRI 2022 side event 'Long-term sustainability of small and mid-scale distributed Research Infrastructure projects’ Tuesday, 28 June 2022 PaNOSC Summer School on Material Science at European Large-Scale Infrastructures using Open ad FAIR Data Wednesday, 1 June 2022 IUPAP - Centenary YEARS 1922 - 2022 Conferences Full list 07 - 12 / 05, 2023 | Venice, Italy 14th International Particle Accelerator Conference 14 - 19 / 05, 2023 | Isola d’Elba - Italy LEAPS Meets Life Sciences Conference
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