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Institut Laue-Langevin
With its international funding and expertise the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) offers scientists and industry the world's leading facility in neutron science and technology. From its Grenoble site in the south-east of France the Institute operates the most intense neutron source on earth.
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24.01.2012 The world’s first magnetic soap!Bristol University team dissolve iron in liquid surfactant to create a soap that can be controlled by magnets. The discovery, published today in Angewandte Chemie, could be used to create cleaning products that can be removed...[more] 08.12.2011 Neutrons answer shampoo formulation puzzleScientists at the ILL have used neutrons to solve a long-standing mystery about the surface properties of polyelectrolyte/surfactant mixtures, such as those used in many detergents, paints, shampoos and conditioners. Their new...[more] 08.12.2011 ILL scientific data policyCentral facilities for neutron scattering and synchrotron X-rays in Europe are working together increasingly to develop and share infrastructure for the data collected there. Such co-operation should make it easier and more...[more] 15.11.2011 Neutron Working Group reports on current and future needs for European facilitiesThe three associated countries of the ILL (France, Germany and UK) set up a Working Group comprising representatives of European neutron facilities and funders to analyse the present landscape in neutron science.Their report...[more] 31.10.2011 New metal-hydride clusters provide insights into hydrogen storageA study published in Nature Chemistry by researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Dalian University of Technology, University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and the ILL has shed first-ever light on a class of...[more] 12.10.2011 Quasicrystals and the ILLThe Institut Laue-Langevin would like to add its congratulations to Daniel Shechtman on the award of his Nobel Prize for Chemistry.Shechtman's discovery of quasicrystals was an extremely important step in fundamental solid-state...[more] 07.10.2011 New management team at Institut Laue-Langevin see European collaboration as key to scientific advanceThe Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble has appointed a new senior management team as it prepares to mark 40 years of experiments at the cutting edge of neutron science. Prof. Andrew Harrison, formerly Science Director has been...[more] |
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