Collaborations & Partnerships
The ILL is “the” European Neutron Source. It is involved in many different partnerships and collaborations and provides assistance for innovative development on the industrial market.
BUSINESS COLLABORATIONS
OHB SYSTEM & MT AEROSPACE
The Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) and European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) have teamed up with leading European aerospace companies OHB System AG and MT Aerospace AG on a number of industrial challenges. Together, their capacity to probe matter with x-rays and neutrons has boosted the companies' efforts to characterise hi-tech materials and improved the efficiency of manufacturing processes.
Video produced by the ESRF
PROCTER & GAMBLE
The multinational corporation Procter & Gamble has signed a Master Collaboration Agreement on a strategic research partnership with the ILL and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. The signature sets up a collaboration framework for P&G, giving it access to the two institutes' advanced facilities and skills.
LOCAL COLLABORATIONS
PAC-G Grenoble
The Institute Laue-Langevin is one of the members of the Grenoble Platform for Advanced Characterisation (PAC-G) which offers advanced characterisation services for innovation in micro- and nano-electronics. The Platform is part of the "Nanoelec" Technological Research Institute.
Irradiation des composants : le centre de compétences (video 6 mn, français)
The ILL is one of the European large-scale facilities contributing to the Grenoble Innovation for Advanced New Technologies project.GIANT is a partnership of eight institutions working on the creation of a world-leading campus for research, higher education, and the transfer of technology to industry.
NeXT-Grenoble The Neutron and X-ray Tomography in Grenoble project emerged in 2016 from collaboration between the ILL and the Université Grenoble Alpes, combining the ILL's state-of-the-art resources with those of the UGA's 3SR laboratory, a leading center in the experimental investigation of porous media and geomaterials.
The main goal of this project is to exploit the uniquely powerful neutron flux produced by the ILL and the high complementarity of x-rays and neutrons to build a novel imaging instrument for material science research.
The Partnership for Structural Biology (PSB) was established by a Memorandum of Understanding in 2002 by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) and the Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS) to provide a unique environment for state-of-the-art integrated structural biology.
The Partnership for Soft Condensed Matter is a scientific and technical platform supporting ambitious large-scale soft matter research projects related to nanomaterials, environmental and energy sciences, biotechnology and related fields.
EUROPEAN UNION INITIATIVES
The League of advanced European Neutron Sources (LENS) is a not-for-profit consortium formed to promote collaboration between European neutron infrastructure providers on strategies for neutron science, innovation in the use of neutrons, training for neutron users, and the development of neutron technologies.
PARTNER INSTITUTES
The ESRF, our sister institute on the site, provides similar research services for industry with high-intensity x-ray beams. X-rays can provide complementary information to neutron-based experiments.
The European Spallation Source (ESS) is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), a multi-disciplinary research facility currently building the world’s most powerful neutron source.
The ESS and ILL are fully committed to combining their forces in the interests of science, the neutron user community, and their stakeholders. Their aim is to reinforce Europe’s leading position in neutron research and technology by optimising the use of the resources available for neutron research.