7 juillet 2023
La stratégie post-2023 de l'ILL
Préconisations du groupe de travail
Infos
6 juillet 2023
Next generation energy efficiency: the potential of superconductivity
A step closer to realising the potential of superconductivity through multidisciplinary international collaboration
ThALES, the Three Axis instrument for Low Energy Spectrometry. Photo: Ecliptique, L. Thion
Climate change and the energy crisis have highlighted the …
23 juin 2023
Designing a European platform for the study of standardised and new batteries
BIG-MAP's Advanced Characterisation Work Package (WP5) is responsible for the creation of a European multi-modal, multi-technique platform enabling the investigation of standardised and novel batteries, using coordinated, state-of-the-art experimental techniques both in laboratories and at large-scale facilities (using X-rays and Neutrons).In this context, the ILL, ESRF and CEA recently organised…
21 juin 2023
Le rapport TSN 2022 est en ligne
Vous trouverez ici le rapport TSN 2022.Depuis la Loi 2006-686 relative à la transparence et à la sécurité en matière nucléaire, tout exploitant nucléaire doit établir chaque année un rapport dit TSN. Ceux de l'ILL sont disponibles ici.
26 mai 2023
Ken Andersen est nommé Directeur de l'ILL
Ken Andersen prendra ses fonctions le 16 octobre 2023.
24 mai 2023
Neutrons: an essential tool for a spin-based future
Though continuous down-scaling in microelectronics has enabled the industry to achieve phenomenal success, the trend is now approaching fundamental limits. Promising alternative technologies for next generation devices exploit not only the charge of the electron – as used in conventional microelectronics – but also the electron spin (spintronics) or spin waves (magnonics) in order to transmit, st…
23 mai 2023
Amino-acid functionalised MOFs for metal recovery: a contribution to the circular economy
Figure 1. (a) Illustration of hard, borderline, and soft metal-chelator-like traps within the MOF-808 scaffold. (b) Illustration of tentative placement of the mercaptosuccinic molecules into the MOF-808 pore space and their coordination to Hg(II). (c) Coordination modes of dimercaptosuccinic acid…
12 mai 2023
Neutron scattering and selective deuteration reveal the structure and composition of mRNA-containing LNPs and the effects induced by the serum protein ApoE
The serum protein ApoE is known to bind to LNPs after administration and to be critical for cellular uptake and protein production in the liver. The acquisition of complementary SANS and SAXS data revealed the structural and compositional effects induced by this binding: a rearrangement of both t…
9 mai 2023
Anticancer drugs: new insights revealed by a powerful and complementary multi-technique approach
Anthracyclines are widely used and highly effective chemotherapy drugs, clinically used to treat various types of cancer. Powerful characterisation techniques were combined by researchers from the University of Manchester, University of Warsaw and the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in order to bette…
2 mai 2023
Neutron scattering: a valuable tool for the advancement of sustainable polymers
Polymers – macromolecules composed of repeating subunits called monomers – are everywhere. Proteins, DNA, starch and cellulose are all examples of naturally occurring polymers, while synthetic polymer materials – considered one of the most important inventions of modern times – are involved in mos…
20 avril 2023
Disorderly magnets – a new ‘spin liquid’ shows its potential
Visualisation of the Ising-like spin liquid on the triangular spin lattice realised in NdTa7O19. The spins (arrows) show antiferromagnetic correlations between nearest neighbours (glowing bonds) but remain fluctuating down to the lowest experimental temperature
A r…
23 mars 2023
Capturing carbon dioxide for the chemical industry
High-resolution neutron imaging can uncover the workings of an electrolytic cell designed to turn the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into useful chemicals.
Experimental setup: Cell fixture and neutron detector/cell alignment. a an explosion view of the custom-built electrolysis cell (End plates: S…