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Recent awards and publications are testament to the sustained efforts and long-standing contributions of the ILL diffraction group to crystallography, and reinforce our ongoing commitment to advancing scientific understanding in the discipline.

An irradiation in ILL’s high flux reactor produced einsteinium-255 that served as on tap supply of fermium-255, enabling high-resolution laser spectroscopy in Mainz.

How neutrons help us understand the industrial production of therapeutic molecules

The 2024 prize has been given to the CERN scientist during the 8th International Conference on Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors Conference (MPGD 2024) in Hefei, China.

Nine people from the ILL staff travelled to the ESS in Lund last week to meet with the local team in charge of the CSPEC project.

The Big Science Business Forum (BSBF) 2024 was held in Trieste from 1 to 4 October. ILL was represented by its Purchasing and Partnerships and Communication services. Our stand was visited by many suppliers, as well as by R&D teams interested in neutron science.

The 2024 edition of the Journées de la Diffusion Neutronique (JDN2024) was held last week on the island of Porquerolles. 86 scientists attended the conference - a record number - including more than 20 scientists representing the ILL and its CRG instruments.

The InnovaXN EU-funded project has ended on September 30, 2024. Let us reflect on the outcomes of this first-of-a-kind EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie doctoral training programme undertaken by the ILL and the ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility), bringing together the expertise of large-scale research infrastructures with the R&D needs of European industry.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has established a set of conditions under which sustainable fatty acid complexes can efficiently fight against dangerous, antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The results are encouraging and inspire further research on the development of fatty acid-based antibiotics. They further demonstrate the value of neutron scattering in this kind of pharmaceutical research.

An international research team has used neutrons to study the nanometer-scale dynamics of water inside concrete. This is not only key to concrete strength, but also for the development of green concrete and environment-related applications.

ILL research scientist Leonardo Chiappisi has been awarded the prestigious Wolfram-Prandl Prize 2024 for young scientists for his outstanding research results on polymer-based soft matter under high-pressure conditions.

Close to 20 undergraduate students from ILL and ESRF associate and member countries are at the EPN campus to discover neutron and x-rays techniques and science, from 2 to 28 September.