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“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.” …

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 …

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…

•    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…

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…

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 …

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…

•    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…

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. …

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…

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 …

9th July 2018: Grenoble, France  – the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) and European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) team up with leading European space companies OHB System AG and MT Aerospace AG to tackle industry challenges. They join forces to advance the characterisation of aerospace materials and make fabrication processes more efficient by probing matter with x-rays and neutrons.Space ex…