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30 November 2022 Foam structural evolution as seen by SANS and optical imaging. Front cover of the 46th issue of the Soft Matter journal. Credit: S.Monfront, ILL Foams are everywhere, in food, beverages, detergents and cosmetics, as well as industrial processes such as recycling, oil recovery and firefighting. There is thus significant interest in the d…

Only by using neutron instruments from across the globe, have researchers been able to characterise the magnetism of a graphene-like material.

Breakthrough in neutron physics: A team from TU Vienna, INRIM Turin and ILL Grenoble has succeeded for the first time in building a neutron interferometer from two separate crystals.

It is with great sadness that the ILL has learned of the death of Philippe Nozières, who passed away on 15 June at the age of 90.After joining the ILL’s Theory Group in 1972, Philippe went on to head the group for many years and remained its most prominent figure. With his passing, we have lost a truly great scientist.Philippe Nozières arrived at the ILL just as the very first experiments were ge…

Single-event effects (SEEs), which are mainly induced by neutron particles, can be responsible for soft errors. SEEs are taken into account during design phase of Avionics Equipment to avoid impact on reliability and safety.  As the functionality of avionic systems increases, aircrafts are embarking more and more advanced microprocessor and semiconductor memory devices. Complex SEE failures have …

Researchers at IRIG are conducting neutron scattering studies on iron-nickel-arsenic pnicture, a superconducting material at lower temperatures than those conventionally encountered. They have succeeded in probing this compound at the atomic scale, and their results could lead to the proposal of a common mechanism for all superconducting materials. Photo credit: Huiqian Luo team/Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Anne STUTZ (LPSC) & Mathieu VIALAT (ILL) stand next to STEREO What are and where are these 25% of the contents of the universe that we call "dark matter"? Could there be a hidden world, the physicists speak of "hidden brane", in which our ordinary matter could …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a human opportunistic pathogen that causes severe infections in immunocompromised patients. P. aeruginosa and other pathogenic bacteria use several virulence factors to promote their infectivity, including sugar-binding proteins.Teams of researchers at CERMAV (CNRS) and t…

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Medical isotope collection at CERN MEDICIS; ©CERN 2018-2021 Nuclear therapy and molecular imaging, which are widely used in hospitals for promising new medical procedures, can drastically improve outcomes for many medical conditions, making it possible to treat dis…