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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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

27.05.2016Novel devices capable of rapidly and reliably switching magnetic states by acting on the electronic charge state are predicted to be of prime importance for tomorrow’s data storage. Their realization will depend on the availability of materials that possess coupled ferromagnetic and ferroelectric order. Ferromagnetic order relies on the parallel alignment of magnetic moments created by …

10.06.2016 On Earth, water is abundant substance, the cycle of evaporation - condensation - solidification (steam transitions - liquid - solid) falls within everyday experience. The physical properties of water and its phase diagram are, however, much more complex than they appear with these familiar characteristics.The properties of bulk water come from a delicate balance of interactio…

Pictorial sketch of a biomimetic membrane interacting with Aβ peptides: (A) Aβ peptides in the membrane-active structured-oligomer state (Membrane filling); (B) Aβ peptides in the monomeric state: (B1) monomers embroider the membrane and (B2) peptide oligomerization takes place next to membrane s…

Le 15 septembre 2021, les gouvernements de la France, de l'Allemagne et du Royaume-Uni ont signé un protocole qui prolonge de dix ans, de 2024 à 2033, leur soutien à l'Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL). Il engage les trois pays pour un investissement global de presque 1 milliard d'euros sur la décennie.

50 ans de prestation scientifique inégalée. L’Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) commémore le tout premier démarrage de son réacteur : une formidable prouesse - technique et humaine - couronnée de succès le 31 août 1971.

This article was writen in anticipation of Felix Kandzia’s webinar, scheduled on Oct 28th 2020, where he presents the significative improvements brought to the FIPPS’s Target System, as part of his FILL2030 post-doc mission.