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Sept. 29, 2026 Rethinking Liquid Hydrogen Storage with Metal-Organic Frameworks

Researchers from UNIST, Ewha Womans University, TUM and the ILL report in Nature Communications a more than threefold increase in modeled storage time with up to 97% of liquid hydrogen’s theoretical volumetric capacity.

Chemistry & materials Energy IN1 TAS/Lagrange Spectroscopy-group

Sept. 28, 2026 Hands on the neutrons at ILL: 2026 JCNS Laboratory Course on Neutron Scattering

The 28th edition of the course organised by JCNS took place from 7 to 18 September. Like last year, the second week of the course was dedicated to hands-on tutorials and took place at the ILL.

Germany Training & PhD Workshops/Conferences/Schools

Sept. 9, 2026 How a few extra rhodium atoms reshape a magnetic transition

Polarised neutron imaging reveals how adding just 1–2% rhodium changes the way a magnetoelastic phase transition unfolds through bulk iron-rhodium.

Applied Science group Chemistry & materials D1B Diffraction group Environment France MoTo Spain

Sept. 9, 2026 Anton Oed Prize 2026 awarded to Amos Breskin

The Anton Oed Prize for the year 2026 has been awarded to Amos Breskin of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Neutron tech

Sept. 2, 2026 Andreas Meyer nominated Scientific Director of FRM II

ILL's German Associate Director Andreas Meyer will become Scientific Director of FRM II, the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

Sept. 1, 2026 Torso di Livorno: how neutrons helped give the statue a new life while unveiling some of its mysteries

The famous Torso di Livorno is back on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Florence, after a long and complex work of restoration and research that brought it to ILL.

Applied Science group Cultural & natural heritage NeXT

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Upcoming events at the ILL

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09 October 14h00 - 15h00

College 1 Seminar | TRIXIE – From Concept to First Experiments: Development, Commissioning and Applications of a New Neutron Imaging Instrument

Room 110/111 in ILL50 The TRIXIE neutron imaging instrument was developed and constructed at the LVR-15 research reactor in Řež near Prague, Czech Republic, as a collaboration between the Czech Techn…

College 1 Seminars/Webinars/Colloquia

From 12 October to 16 October

10th International Topical Meeting on Neutron Radiography

The 10th International Topical Meeting on Neutron Radiography (ITMNR-10) will be held in Village Club Les Balcons du Lac d'Annecy, France, from October 12-16, 2026. This will be the 10th co…

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21 October 14h00 - 16h00

College 9 Seminar | Wound Healing – Redefining Fibrinogen Adsorption at the Air–Water Interface: an Intriguing Story with Multiple Layers

Layer-by-layer self-assembled structures of the blood-clotting glycoprotein fibrinogen have been resolved at a fluid interface using neutron reflectometry and complementary techniques to reveal an un…

College 9 Seminars/Webinars/Colloquia

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