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Researchers combine neutron diffraction experiments and simulations to study NaCl solutions under extreme conditions.Salty water can act as a large carbon sink, sequestering carbon dioxide in deep saline aquifers with high pressures and temperatures.  However, the actual fate of the gas depends on…

24 November - ILL, ESRF and CEA create the “Grenoble Battery Hub” for research on sustainable electrical energy storage.

Grenoble, le 18 octobre 2021 - En cette fin d’année 2021, l’ILL, premier institut international de recherche scientifique à s’installer à Grenoble, commémore le tout premier démarrage de son réacteur.Depuis 1971, l'ILL est le centre phare de la science et de la technologie neutroniques de pointe. Son réacteur à haut flux fournit des faisceaux intenses de neutrons qui permettent à une large commun…

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Medical isotope collection at CERN MEDICIS; ©CERN 2018-2021 Nuclear therapy and molecular imaging, which are widely used in hospitals for promising new medical procedures, can drastically improve outcomes for many medical conditions, making it possible to treat dis…

Prof. Helmut Schober at ILL. Photo : S. Claisse 14.04.2016Prof. Helmut Schober has been appointed, with effect from 1st October 2016, as the new Director of the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, the world’s flagship centre for neutron science.  Professor Schober …

The Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) was privileged to learn of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics, awarded for the theoretical studies into exotic quantum states in hard condensed matter conducted by Thouless, Kosterlitz and Haldane.Duncan Haldane worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the ILL's Theor…

19 January 2017: Grenoble – The Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), one of the world’s most outstanding neutron research centres, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in the presence of Mr Thierry Mandon, French Secretary of State for Higher Education and Research, Mr Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut, German Ambas…

12 September 2018: Vienna, Austria — Representatives of eight European research infrastructures signed the Charter of the League of advanced European Neutron Sources (LENS) today at the International Conference of Research Infrastructures, ICRI2018.The signing ceremony marks the establishment of a new strategic consortium of European neutron source facilities with the aim, according to the charte…

11th October 2018: Grenoble, France – Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) the world’s flagship neutron facility, hosts the global neutron community in its hometown to discuss the future of neutron science in Europe and highlight cutting-edge research in the field. Neutron science is critical to Europe’s scientific impact. The ILL has enabled globally significant research in this field for over 50 years,…