Einsteinium-255, produced through irradiation in ILL’s high-flux reactor, provided a continuous supply of fermium-255, facilitating…
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The Institute Laue-Langevin (ILL) is an internationally renowned research center based in Grenoble, France, specializing in neutron science. Founded in 1967, it operates one of the world’s most intense neutron sources, a nuclear reactor specifically designed to produce neutrons for scientific research. The ILL serves a large international scientific community, offering access to its facilities to researchers from member countries, which include various European nations. The institute’s primary focus is on the study of the structure and behavior of materials at the atomic and molecular levels using neutron scattering techniques. This research has broad applications across a wide range of disciplines, including physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science. The ILL is also involved in the development of new techniques and instrumentation for neutron science, contributing significantly to advances in fields like condensed matter physics, chemistry, biology, and materials engineering.
New research reveals the dual nature of supercritical fluids, transitioning from gas-like to liquid-like behavior,…
Nanoscale insight into molecular motion on surfaces. Researchers utilized neutron spectroscopy data from ILL to…
New neutron scattering experiments reveal the existence of quantum selection rules in molecules and could…