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Dec. 18, 2018 Neutrons unlock the secrets of limoncello

If you’re looking for a liquid to study with neutron scattering, lemon liqueur probably isn’t your first thought. But, for Dr. Leonardo Chiappisi, a researcher at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL, France) and the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin), it was an obvious choice. “I’m originally …

D11 Germany Press releases Scientific news Soft matter

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Dec. 17, 2018 Making leaps and jumps in high pressure small-angle neutron scattering techniques

“The phase transition from swollen chains to polymer mesoglobules as induced by millisecond pressure jumps, investigated with kinetic small-angle neutron scattering.Reprinted with permission from ACS Macro Lett. 2018, 7, 10, 1155. Copyright 2018 American Chemical Society.” …

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Dec. 3, 2018 H2020 European project PaNOSC officially started to contribute making FAIR data a reality

1 December 2018Large-scale research infrastructures produce huge amounts of scientific data on a daily basis. This poses storage and (re)usability challenges, which are best addressed by the “FAIR” paradigm: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable. Data policies and technologies need to …

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Nov. 28, 2018 Spain set to solve grand energy challenges with neutron science

28th November 2018: Madrid, Spain – the Institut Laue-Langevin, the world’s flagship neutron facility, is uniting researchers and industry from across Spain to highlight the country’s increasing influence in neutron science, and discuss how this work will help the country to better adapt to the ne…

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Nov. 27, 2018 Insights into magnetic bacteria may guide research into medical nanorobots

• Magnetotactic bacteria are a unique aquatic species which use magnetic nanoparticles as an internal compass to navigate • The configuration of the magnetic chain in these bacteria has been analysed using neutrons, explaining how the magnetic field affects its behaviour • Understanding t…

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Nov. 22, 2018 Prof Bill Stirling awarded the IOP President's Medal

Professor Stirling receives the medal from Professor Dame Julia Higgins, the IOP President. Photo IOP, http://www.iop.org ILL former director, Bill Stirling, has just been received a prestigious scientific award: the Institute of Physics President's Medal, "For se…

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Nov. 19, 2018 Chimet partners with Institut Laue-Langevin to find the best industrial catalysts

Chimet S.p.A. turns to the world’s flagship centre for neutron science, the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) to develop the most effective catalysts for industrial processes, to enhance methods to produce widely used bulk and fine chemicals. LAGRANGE is a neutron spectrometer dedicated to studies of …

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Nov. 7, 2018 Neutrons on the quest to find the fifth dimension in star polymer dynamics

Entanglement. A cross‐section view into a web of interpenetrated polymer chains is shown. Above the glass transition temperature, the molecules are able to diffuse. For long star‐shaped polymers, the mean square displacement is proportional to a power law 1/16 of time. This particular number is a…

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Oct. 23, 2018 Neutrons help to analyse outer surface interactions on E. coli

• Bacterial infections can be lethal and are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. Six million people dye of blood poisoning (sepsis) every year. • The use of neutrons to analyse complex structures on the surface of E.coli could reveal how bacteria interact with their surroundings…

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July 26, 2018 A novel approach for the study of integral membrane proteins

The integral membrane protein MsbA (blue) embedded in a ‘semi-transparent’ membranous nanodisc (grey). The nanodisc itself is, through selective deuteration, rendered invisible in SANS experiments that focus on the conformation of the protein in its native context. …

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July 24, 2018 Key binding characteristics of a sugar-binding protein associated with heart disease and breast cancer defined for the first time, guiding future drug development

Key binding characteristics of a sugar-binding protein associated with heart disease and breast cancer defined for the first time, guiding future drug developmentResearchers pinpoint hydrogen-bonding interactions in the C-terminal carbohydrate recognition domain of galectin-3 (galectin-3C) for the first time using neutron crystallographyThese detailed observations will inform future drug design f…

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July 23, 2018 No sign of symmetrons

A high-precision experiment led by Vienna's Technical University (TU Vienna) has set its sights on pinpointing the so-far hypothetical "symmetron fields" using the PF2 ultra-cold neutron source at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in France. The existence of symmetrons could provide an explanation …

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