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Polymers – Gels - Surfactants – Liquid crystals – Emulsions – Colloids Proteins – Viruses – Cell membranes – Biological processes - Drug delivery and action Neutron beams are particularly well suited

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Principale source de neutrons européenne, l'ILL est tout naturellement présent sur la scène européenne : coordination de contrats européens, participation active à des alliances de centres de recherch

Photo ILL / Ulli Köster ILL's nuclear reactor is essentially used for producing neutrons for scientific research; however it has also been used over recent years for producing innovative radioisotopes

Resolutely in touch with the world around it and the major societal issues of today and tomorrow, the ILL helps drive significant advances in the fields of health, energy, the environment and quantum

Alexander Petukhov (1952-2023) by Eddy Lelièvre-Berna After a brilliant start of his career in Gatchina (Russia), Alexander Petukhov (Sasha) came for the first time to ILL in 1996 to successfully meas

Because the journal " Communications on Physics " disappeared for long, the papers describing neutron multilayers for the first time were neither available on the web nor referenced by the main abstra

Neutron Optics Well-designed optical elements play a crucial role in maximising neutron flux at the sample, with carefully optimised systems capable of increasing intensities by orders of magnitude. W

Improving neutron flux is of little value if the scattered neutrons cannot be detected efficiently with the required spatial and temporal resolution. High-quality detectors are essential for optimal i

How neutron science supports research on viruses such as Covid-19 A lot of action in the virus’s life cycle happens at the surfaces. Like a space ship docks onto a space station the virus has to hook