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Figure 1: (click to enlarge) Clockwise from left: SuperSUN phase I installed at its beam end-position, with radiological shielding removed; cut view of the cryogenic system including the octupole magnet planned for phase II; circular cold-neutron replica guide with m=3 supermirror coating; taper…

Experimental evidence of rare magnetic behaviour in LiYbO2 will help to open the door to a new family of materials with potential applications in spintronics, quantum computing and more. Though continuous down-scaling in microelectronics has enabled the industry to achieve phenomenal success, the trend is now approaching fundamental limits. Promising alternative technologies for next generation d…

It is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing of Professor John White, who died very suddenly, most probably of a heart attack, in his garden on 16 August.  John was the UK’s first Director of the ILL, a post which he held from 1977 to 1980 after serving for two years as Associate Director. He was one of the architects of the ILL’s very first instrument upgrade programme, known as …

In an article published in ACS Macro Letters, a team of physicochemists describes a novel approach which uses neutron and light scattering to monitor in situ the self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers in near-equilibrium conditions. These results offer a wealth of possibilities for observing and better understanding the organisation of complex biological and synthetic macromolecules in aqu…

Following the signature of the Sixth Protocol in September 2021, the Associates decided to create a Working Group to elaborate a strategy for the ILL for the period 2024-2033. The strategy proposed to the ILL’s stakeholders, the Associates and the Scientific Members, focusses on defining the core …

A step closer to realising the potential of superconductivity through multidisciplinary international collaboration ThALES, the Three Axis instrument for Low Energy Spectrometry. Photo: Ecliptique, L. Thion Climate change and the energy crisis have highlighted the …

BIG-MAP's Advanced Characterisation Work Package (WP5) is responsible for the creation of a European multi-modal, multi-technique platform enabling the investigation of standardised and novel batteries, using coordinated, state-of-the-art experimental techniques both in laboratories and at large-scale facilities (using X-rays and Neutrons).In this context, the ILL, ESRF and CEA recently organised…

Dr Ken Andersen will take up his duties on 16th October 2023.

Though continuous down-scaling in microelectronics has enabled the industry to achieve phenomenal success, the trend is now approaching fundamental limits. Promising alternative technologies for next generation devices exploit not only the charge of the electron – as used in conventional microelectronics – but also the electron spin (spintronics) or spin waves (magnonics) in order to transmit, st…

Figure 1. (a) Illustration of hard, borderline, and soft metal-chelator-like traps within the MOF-808 scaffold. (b) Illustration of tentative placement of the mercaptosuccinic molecules into the MOF-808 pore space and their coordination to Hg(II). (c) Coordination modes of dimercaptosuccinic acid…

The serum protein ApoE is known to bind to LNPs after administration and to be critical for cellular uptake and protein production in the liver. The acquisition of complementary SANS and SAXS data revealed the structural and compositional effects induced by this binding: a rearrangement of both t…