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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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11 February 2011 08:13 Age: 1 yrs
Study of volcanoes in the outer solar system produces unexpected bonus for nanotechnologyMysterious expanding ice crystals in the moons of Saturn and Neptune may be of interest to future developers of microelectronics. A publication on 10th February in Science.Neutron scattering has discovered that methanol crystals that may be found in outer solar system ‘ice lavas’ have unusual expansion properties. The unexpected finding by a British planetary geologist using neutrons at the Institut Laue-Langevin and the STFC ISIS neutron source will interest developers of ‘nano-switches’ – single atom thick valves used in ‘micro-electronics’ at the nano scale. [more]
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