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From left to right Prof. Konstantin Protassov, Prof. Helmut Schober and Prof. Patrick Levy, the UGA President On 26 November, the Director of the ILL, Helmut Schober, was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa, an honorary title awarded to “non-French personalit…

schematic illustration of the interferometric setup A letter published in Physical Review Letters, by a group of scientists of the Atominstitut  - Institute of Atomic & Subatomic Physics of TU Wien (Austria), after an experiment on S18 at ILL. Nuclear spin tomo…

ThALES. Photo: R. Cubitt, ILL Electrons and magnetismIn modern physics of the past century, understanding the electronic properties and interactions between electrons inside matter has been a major challenge. Electrons are responsible for the chemical link between …

Newly discovered multiferroic nano-clusters might help to enable the next generation of processor and memory devices 24.06.2016A team of scientists from England, Germany and France recently discovered novel so-called multiferroic clusters. Results were published as a featured article in the journa…

The wax surface on the leaves of plants, such as barley and wheat crops, acts as a protective barrier against environmental attacks including pests, and water and nutrient loss. The wax surface is also involved in the uptake and transportation of water and nutrients across the plant surface for pl…

Pulsed Ti:sapphire laser setup used for the determination of the ionization potential of promethium at Mainz University. 26 June 2019Timely for the “International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements” which celebrates the 150th anniversary of Mendeleev's…

New clues about the molecular nature of Alzheimer’s disease

Direct observations of the structure and catalytic mechanism of a prototypical kinase enzyme will provide researchers and drug developers with significantly enhanced abilities to understand and treat fatal diseases and neurological disorders

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 …

“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…