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Jan. 17, 2018 Unveiling the invisible - T. Jenke's point of view in Nature Physics

Copyright Dmitry / fotolia.com The Universe is expanding: the distance between any two distinct points in the Universe increases with time. This has been known for 90 years and has been the subject of numerous debates among scientists throughout the world. Around 2…

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Jan. 17, 2018 Neutrons provide a novel picture of thermal conductivity in complex materials

8.09.2017Neutron experiments conducted by the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) and CNRS researchers provide a direct quantitative measurement of phonon lifetimes in a clathrate, providing a novel picture of thermal conductivity in complex materialsThis study has highlighted the importance of neutron t…

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Jan. 17, 2018 Italy celebrates 20 years of scientific excellence through membership of the Institut Laue-Langevin

Copyright Artechnique 5th October 2017: Trieste, Italy – Italy celebrates the 20th anniversary of its Scientific Membership to the world’s flagship centre for neutron science, the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL). The last two decades of collaboration have tackled scie…

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Jan. 17, 2018 Neutrons observe vitamin B6-dependent enzyme activity useful for drug development. An ORNL release

An ORNL-led team used neutrons to observe the AAT enzyme, a vitamin B6-dependent protein, and found that the chemical reaction occurred only in one active site. Nuclear scattering length density maps (colored mesh) highlight the positions of critical hydrogen atoms, including a low-barrier hydrog…

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Jan. 17, 2018 Ultra-cold neutrons aid the search for dark matter

Ultra cold neutrons as the ideal tool A look inside the EDM setup used on PF2 at ILL. ©Artechnique Since the start of its operation in 1985, the experimental installation ‘Physique Fondamentale 2’ (PF2) has been until recently the only user facility for ultra-cold …

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Jan. 17, 2018 Neutrons reveal fast methane translational diffusion at the interface of two clathrate structures

Unit cells of clathrate structure I and clathrate structure II. Different types of polyhedral cages are represented in different colours. Reproduced from Ranieri et al., Nature Comm. Gas clathrate hydrates are ice-like solids, in which gas molecules or atoms are tr…

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Jan. 17, 2018 Neutron diffraction experiments at the ILL provide deeper understanding of materials with structures comprising multiple metal elements

Materials containing multiple metal elements are important for various applications as the combination of different metal cations provides new or enhanced properties, which cannot be obtained through the use of just one metal. A recent study involving neutron diffraction experiments has enabled th…

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Jan. 17, 2018 ILL D20’s neutron beam yields important clues to the unconventional origins of superconductivity

Photo ILL / Max Alexander Iron-based superconductors contain layers of iron and a pnictogen – such as arsenic or phosphorus – or a chalcogen, like oxygen or selenium. Previously dismissed eas weak candidates for superconductivity, iron-based superconductors took th…

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Jan. 16, 2018 Neutrons reveal hidden secrets of the hepatitis C virus

Credit Synthelis / Illusciencia January 2018p7 is a protein essential for the release of the hepatitis C virus, however little data is currently available on the way it interacts with its environment, hindering the development of vaccinations for itResearchers have…

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April 11, 2017 ILL’s D16 instrument enables greater understanding of the unique interaction characteristics of glycolipid membranes

Chemical structures of a PC lipid (a) and of the glycolipid DGDG (b) as representatives of two fundamentally different lipid classes found in nature: Lipids with a headgroup chemistry dominated by one large electric dipole and lipids whose headgroups comprise multiple small electric dipoles in th…

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Feb. 22, 2017 Neutrons push molecular magnets a step closer to application in quantum information processing

Left: Molecular structure of the (Cr7Ni)2 dimer Right: Constant-energy plots of the neutron scattering intensity: comparison of data (a,b) and calculations (c,d). Short-Q modulations are a portrayal of entanglement. Credit: E.Garlatti, et al., Nature Commun.(2017). …

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Jan. 6, 2017 Neutrons probe new HF@C60 endofullerene produced by molecular surgery

The endofullerene HF@C60 has attracted great interest, as it allows the spectroscopic properties of the isolated hydrogen fluoride (HF) molecule to be examined under carefully controlled conditionsScientists produced the first samples of HF@C60 using molecular surgery, which involved encapsulation…

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