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March 2023 ESRFnews

CONTENTS

Number 93 March 2023

On the cover: How synchrotron X-rays help conserve art, p14

ERC grant goes to the core, p19

EDITORIAL

5 On site, in great numbers

NEWS

6 User Meeting successfully returns to campus;

7 Biomineralisation researcher wins Young

Scientist Award

8 Why CO

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electrolysis devices become unstable;

New ‘prodrug’ self-activates;

Pressure destroys ionic bonds

9 Israeli delegation visits the ESRF;

ReMade@ARI opens call

10 Thermoelectrics probed

ID15B tastes Jovian salty ices

INSIGHT

11 Inside the Sample Environment Unit

Cover image Johannes Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring c 1665 Mauritshuis The Hague

FEATURES

14 The science of historic painting conservation

19 What is the Earth’s core made of ?

PORTRAIT

25 Kristina Djinović-Carugo on the EMBL-

ESRF partnership

The importance of sample environments for the EBS, p11

INDUSTRY

23 Companies take part in ESRF ‘send-your-

sample’ day

EVENTS

26 Cryoelectron microscopy workshop Synchrotron radiation

safety workshop Partnership for Structural Biology symposium

MOVERS SHAKERS

26 Alain Manceau Robert Feidenhansl Adrian Mancuso

USER CORNER

12 Dates for the diary Useful contacts News from the

beamlines