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Prof. Helmut Schober at ILL. Photo : S. Claisse 14.04.2016Prof. Helmut Schober has been appointed, with effect from 1st October 2016, as the new Director of the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, the world’s flagship centre for neutron science.  Professor Schober …

On the 15th of September 2021, the governments of France, Germany and the United Kingdom signed a protocol that will extend their support of the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) for another ten-year period from 2024 to 2033.

Credit: Marta Salvador-Castell Scientists at Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) have helped take a key step towards understanding the development of life on Earth.The team, led by Dr Philippe Oger, a scientist from the University of Lyon – INSA Lyon, used organic molecul…

Prof. Andreas Meyer. Credit: DLR The Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) is pleased to announce that Professor Andreas Meyer has accepted the post of German Associate Director of the Institute from 1st October 2021. Prof. Meyer is an expert in the application of neutron s…

August 2020Supercapacitors are up-and-coming, energy storage devices, often used to store energy from renewable energy sources like wind turbines where power is intermittent. They combine the best of batteries and traditional capacitors – like batteries, they are able to store lots of energy but a…

Schematic representation of the homogeneously magnetized core of ferrite nanoparticles. As the external magnetic field is increased, the magnetic volume grows, eventually becoming 20% larger by volume than the coherent core. July 2020When ultrafine magnetic partic…

7 February 2020An international team has used neutron and X-ray tomography to investigate the dynamic processes that lead to capacity degradation at the electrodes in lithium batteries. Using a new mathematical method, it was possible to virtually unwind electrodes that had been wound into the for…

Credit: MPI-ILL 5.09.2016Understanding microbe adaptation to extreme environments remains a challenge of high biotechnological potential—in bioremediation and waste management, for example.Halomonas microorganisms isolated from the oceans or salt marshes, reversibl…

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…

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…

Photo of the PERKEO III spectrometer during tests at Heidelberg University. Credit: Hartmut Abele. The to date most accurate measurement of the weak axial vector coupling constant gA has just been published as Editors' suggestion in PRL [1]. This fundamental consta…