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On 12 September, the ILL had the honour and pleasure of welcoming to the Institute Don Pablo Benavides Orgaz, the new Consul General of Spain in Lyon.The ILL Director, Prof. Helmut Schober, took the Consult General on a tour of the Institute and its installations (photo) before telling him a little about the fruitful scientific collaboration between the ILL and Spain since the first Scientific Me…

A delegation from Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation and Osaka University, led by Vice President Mr. Kenji Takahashi and Prof. Massaki Sugiyama, visited the ILL on 26 August 08 2017 and were received by Jérôme Beaucour, Head of the ILL’s Industrial Liaison Unit, and ILL scientists.Great interest was expressed in neutron techniques for characterizing steel products and fabrication proce…

The international company Procter & Gamble (P&G), together with the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) and the neutron source Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), have signed a Master Collaboration Agreement today, making ESRF and ILL strategic research partners to P&G. This signature sets up a collaboration framework between the partners to help advance industrial research with …

Copyright Artechnique 5th October 2017: Trieste, Italy – Italy celebrates the 20th anniversary of its Scientific Membership to the world’s flagship centre for neutron science, the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL). The last two decades of collaboration have tackled scie…

An ORNL-led team used neutrons to observe the AAT enzyme, a vitamin B6-dependent protein, and found that the chemical reaction occurred only in one active site. Nuclear scattering length density maps (colored mesh) highlight the positions of critical hydrogen atoms, including a low-barrier hydrog…

Investigating the magnetic field – temperature phase diagram of MnSi: it’s not easy to untwist! SANS scattering patterns obtained for a magnetic field of 0.20 T [(a) and (b)] applied parallel to the neutron beam wavevector k ⃗_i and perpendicular to it. Panel (c) shows the intermediate scattering …

A TITAN KRIOS cryo-electron microscope has been inaugurated at the ESRF, the European Synchrotron, in Grenoble, France. The inauguration took place in the presence of Ada Yonath, chemistry Nobel Prize laureate in 2009, Francesco Sette, Director General of the ESRF and all the partners that jointly…

Ultra cold neutrons as the ideal tool A look inside the EDM setup used on PF2 at ILL. ©Artechnique Since the start of its operation in 1985, the experimental installation ‘Physique Fondamentale 2’ (PF2) has been until recently the only user facility for ultra-cold …

Dates: 8th – 9th March 2018Location: NEMO Science Museum, AmsterdamEurope is home to the world’s most extensive portfolio of Advanced Research Infrastructures (ARIs), serving a wide and dynamic community of tens of thousands of scientists every year. These specialised large-scale facilities enable…

November 2017Proteins are the nano-machines that Nature uses to perform most of the processes critical for the metabolism in cells. One of the key goals of life and physical sciences revolves around understanding the structural and dynamic properties of the native, transition, intermediate, and denatured states of proteins. The denaturation transition – defined as the transition of proteins from …

Unit cells of clathrate structure I and clathrate structure II. Different types of polyhedral cages are represented in different colours. Reproduced from Ranieri et al., Nature Comm. Gas clathrate hydrates are ice-like solids, in which gas molecules or atoms are tr…