28 septembre 2021
Breakthrough in Magnonics? Discovery of a New Property in Quantum Materials
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23 septembre 2021
PRISMAP – The European medical radionuclides programme sets out to transform the European landscape for novel and emerging medical radionuclides
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…
17 septembre 2021
Appointment of next ILL Director: Prof. Helmut Schober
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 …
17 septembre 2021
Nobel Prize: Haldane, neutron science and the ILL
The Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) was privileged to learn of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics, awarded for the theoretical studies into exotic quantum states in hard condensed matter conducted by Thouless, Kosterlitz and Haldane.Duncan Haldane worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the ILL's Theor…
17 septembre 2021
The Institut Laue-Langevin celebrates 50 years of scientific excellence
19 January 2017: Grenoble – The Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), one of the world’s most outstanding neutron research centres, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in the presence of Mr Thierry Mandon, French Secretary of State for Higher Education and Research, Mr Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut, German Ambas…
17 septembre 2021
Founding Partners Sign Charter Establishing Neutron Source Consortium LENS
12 September 2018: Vienna, Austria — Representatives of eight European research infrastructures signed the Charter of the League of advanced European Neutron Sources (LENS) today at the International Conference of Research Infrastructures, ICRI2018.The signing ceremony marks the establishment of a new strategic consortium of European neutron source facilities with the aim, according to the charte…
17 septembre 2021
ILL and ESS bring together global neutron science community to tackle society’s biggest challenges
11th October 2018: Grenoble, France – Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) the world’s flagship neutron facility, hosts the global neutron community in its hometown to discuss the future of neutron science in Europe and highlight cutting-edge research in the field. Neutron science is critical to Europe’s scientific impact. The ILL has enabled globally significant research in this field for over 50 years,…
17 septembre 2021
LENS launches activities to strengthen European neutron science
Members of a strategic consortium of neutron research facilities in Europe, the League of advanced European Neutron Sources (LENS), officially launched activities to promote collaboration on neutron usage, technology development, innovation, data, education, and strategies. By aligning policies …
17 septembre 2021
Emergent excitations from a quantum spin ice
Spin correlations for classical versus quantum spin ice in magnetic pyrochlores. Spin correlations are directly measurable by neutron scattering.
Images: O. Benton, O. Sikora, N. Shannon PRB 86(2012)075154.
Quantum spin ice is an appealing proposal of a quantum sp…
17 septembre 2021
Neutron diffraction experiment under pressure at ILL’s D20 beamline enables greater understanding of the quantum material Yb2Ti2O7
Image:E. Kermarrec
New quantum states of matter often escape experimental observations. A recent study combined neutron diffraction and muon spin relaxation measurements to show why in the mineral Yb2Ti2O7: isolated atomic defects (excess of Yb) create a local stra…
16 septembre 2021
Catching a glimpse at enzymes on the job: a combined time-resolved neutron scattering and fluorescence study
AAA+ ATPases are a large family of ubiquitous enzymes with multiple tasks, including the remodelling of the cellular proteome, i.e. the ensemble of proteins in a biological cell. A subfamily, so-called unfoldases, recognize, unfold, and address misfolded or dysfunctional proteins towards proteolyt…
16 septembre 2021
Mysteries of enzyme mechanism revealed
Credit: Institut Laue-Langevin/ University of Leicester
An international research team led by the University of Leicester has made a breakthrough advance by trapping an intermediate in the mechanism of enzymes called heme peroxidases and determining its structure u…