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The helix structure of BACOVO: the oxygen atoms, represented in red, are organized in octahedra around the cobalt atoms, located at their center. The blue arrows represent the small moments carried by the cobalt atoms, ordered antiferromagnetically along the helical chain. © CEA/CNRS/UGA …

Even as we are going to celebrate 80 years since the discovery of nuclear fission, there remain significant gaps in our understanding of the nuclear fission process – which impacts on the success of modelling the fission reaction and its applications. Despite tremendous effort, aspects of nuclear fission are still open to inquiry.Nuclear reactors have already been in successful operation for 75 y…

Vew from "acoustic levitation: a movie by Alain Filhol. ©2012, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France" The drying process is a critical final stage in various manufacturing processes – it influences the quality of many a product and has many industrial …

November 2013Fluctuating charge stripes are among the more popular candidates to explain high-temperature superconductivity. So far escaping direct observation  the peculiar ‘hourglass’ magnetic excitation spectrum was taken as evidence for their existence. New Nature Communications paper now find…

Neutron experiments at the ILL contribute to the discovery of a new process of magnetic fragmentation - creating a monopole crystal in a spin ice The IN5 detector. Copyright Bernhard Lehn December 2017To date, the ability of an entity being two mutually exclusive s…

A compter du 1er octobre 2017, M. Jérôme Estrade sera le prochain directeur-adjoint français de l’Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL). Il dirigera la Division Projets et Techniques.Diplômé en ingénierie nucléaire et en physique fondamentale, M. Estrade a acquis une connaissance approfondie du fonctionnem…

8.09.2017Neutron experiments conducted by the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) and CNRS researchers provide a direct quantitative measurement of phonon lifetimes in a clathrate, providing a novel picture of thermal conductivity in complex materialsThis study has highlighted the importance of neutron t…

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…

From left to right: Fabien Lafont and Victor Buridon, post-docs ILL/BrightnESS, and Anton Khaplanov, ESS Multi-grid detectors, introduced at the ILL in 2010, have shown their great potential to replace Helium-3-based detectors, and as a result, they will equip seve…

Molecular structure of Amyloid beta. Copyright raimund14-fotolia.com 27.04.2015One of the pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease is the formation of amyloid fibres by tau proteins Results have shown that water mobility is increased on the surface of these ta…