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Vue d'une partie de la barge gallo-romaine LSG4 du musée Lugdunum de Lyon, (2e siècle après JC), après son traitement au Polyethylene Glycol. Photo: arc-nucleart.fr/ Les neutrons aident des chercheurs dans la découverte d’une nouvelle approche qui empêche les …

Understanding, manipulating and exploiting the intriguing magnetic behaviour of a synthetic crystalline material called yttrium iron garnet (YIG) could open the door to the next, advanced generation of communication and information-processing devices. Experiments at the Institute Laue-Langevin (ILL) neutron beam facility in Grenoble, France have for the first time fully exposed the complex magnetic behaviour of YIG.

During the second reactor cycle in 2020, the ThALES team and SCI/CS at ILL in Grenoble, France commissioned and tested a self-learning algorithm developed by the CAMERA team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). For the first time, an algorithm took control over the measurement process, without human intervention. Completely agnostic (that is, without any prior information on t…

Magnetic system of new PF1B polarizer The ILL has now implemented the best neutron polariser in the world – it is more compact and cheaper than others because of its size and able to reach nearly 100% polarisation. It is set to be implemented at a number of facilit…

Prof Gregor Anderluh, Director of the National Institute of Chemistry, during the signing ceremony. Credits: NIC / Nataša Jager Radin 18 August 2020: Grenoble, France / Ljubljana, Slovenia – Slovenia’s National Institute of Chemistry (NIC) joins the world’s flagshi…

August 2020Protein aggregation into amyloid superstructures is the molecular manifestation of a large variety of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Evidence is increasing that transient on-pathway oligomers are actually the toxic species, such that time-resolved monito…

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…

On 1st July, Professor Helmut Schober and his team took over from CERN as Chair of EIROforum, a consortium of eight of Europe’s largest intergovernmental research organisations.

An “artists view” of how the new material, D-96-7, is created June 2020The synthesis of stable and cost-effective new materials is paramount for the development of advanced technologies. At the same time, new and exciting insights can be made about material propert…

The publication made the front cover of Nature Physics in May 2020.