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August 2020Protein aggregation into amyloid superstructures is the molecular manifestation of a large variety of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Evidence is increasing that transient on-pathway oligomers are actually the toxic species, such that time-resolved monito…

August 2020Supercapacitors are up-and-coming, energy storage devices, often used to store energy from renewable energy sources like wind turbines where power is intermittent. They combine the best of batteries and traditional capacitors – like batteries, they are able to store lots of energy but a…

Schematic representation of the homogeneously magnetized core of ferrite nanoparticles. As the external magnetic field is increased, the magnetic volume grows, eventually becoming 20% larger by volume than the coherent core. July 2020When ultrafine magnetic partic…

On 1st July, Professor Helmut Schober and his team took over from CERN as Chair of EIROforum, a consortium of eight of Europe’s largest intergovernmental research organisations.

An “artists view” of how the new material, D-96-7, is created June 2020The synthesis of stable and cost-effective new materials is paramount for the development of advanced technologies. At the same time, new and exciting insights can be made about material propert…

Read the 2019 TSN report here (in French only)

The publication made the front cover of Nature Physics in May 2020.

One critical component of the D20 instrument is certainly its large “banana” 1D position-sensitive detector. Good news and great achievement: the new trench-MWPC detector is now available

The InnovaXN project (H2020-COFUND framework) supports 40 fully-funded PhD studentships at ESRF and ILL working on pre-competitive research projects, each involving an industrial partner. A first set of 20 projects was selected in 2019 and students are now being recruited to start in September 2020. See the InnovaXN web site for more details,Based on the experience of the first round, the second …

H20, the key molecule of life, is closely studied across the world. Yet, there are many mysteries we are still to uncover. One of these mysteries is ice.