♾️ High-quality neutron and X-ray data acquired using red blood cells allowed researchers to establish a 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐥 theoretical description of cell membranes 🌐 www.ill.eu/news-and-eve...

🔋Neutron imaging of Li-S batteries provides real-time insights into electrolyte distribution, allowing to optimise design. Experiments on NeXT show the distribution of electrolyte solution during cycles 🟢wetted 🔴unwetted💥More www.ill.eu/news-and-events/news/scientific-news/how-batteries-breathe

👩‍🎓Interested in exploring the complex multi-scale dynamics of glass-forming systems under confinement⁉️Open PhD position at ILL+U. Silesia in the framework of the Scientific Member agreement between Poland and ILL. Deadline 26 September. Info on this and other opportunities: www.ill.eu/careers/all-...

Most people would agree gluten-free spaghetti is still a little disappointing. The good news? Researchers are working to improve it! Using neutrons + xrays, they looked into the structure at the nanometre scale. Read more: www.ill.eu/news-and-eve...

ERC laureate 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐬 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 brings our portrait series of NEPHEWS novice users to a close. His research focuses on developing innovative solvents for hydrometallurgy, with applications in resource recovery and sustainability. youtu.be/owStSs9Mxic

Dr. Vlada Pashynska, PhD, MBA is a senior researcher in Kharkiv, where she specializes in molecular biophysics. With the war in Ukraine making it increasingly difficult to carry out experiments at home, Vlada applied to the NEPHEWS Twinning Programme to continue pursuing her scientific purpose.

📢 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐡𝐃 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐬 – 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 & 𝐈𝐋𝐋 (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓–𝟐𝟎𝟑𝟑) 🇨🇭 As part of the Scientific Member agreement between Switzerland and the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), funding is available 👉 for a 3-year PhD project to start as soon as possible. 👉 for two additional 3-year PhD projects in 2026.

𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟𝐟 ! 🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱 Molecular motions can be tracked with unprecedented precision 🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱 Ben Humphreys led a study investigating the solution response of polymer PNIPAM chains attached to a silicon surface as a function of temperature and glucose concentration 📈 📉

🔬 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐇𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐗𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐃 𝐚𝐭 𝐈𝐋𝐋 🧲 Join the cutting edge of neutron science! Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (INMA-CSIC) is recruiting an 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭 to join the team operating 𝑿𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝑫, a next-generation thermal neutron diffractometer at the ILL.

📷 In addition to ICNS 2025, which took place last week, several other important events happened earlier this summer: 🌞 𝟏𝟓𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 🌞 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 🌞 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓

Let's look back at one of the great classics of ILL life : the annual PhD clips session! 🍿 Congratulations to the 3 prizes winners + all participants who managed to present their PhD subject in 4 minutes! There are currently 13 open PhD positions at the ILL! www.ill.eu/careers/all-...

Just about to start in The Loop, Lund - day 4 of ICNS 2025! 💫 Don't miss 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐆𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥 keynote talk on the BDCS group at ILL 🏅 𝐉𝐮𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐳-𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐣𝐚𝐥, widely recognized as the “father of FullProf”will be awarded the 2025 Walter Hälg Prize.

We just welcomed our first users on SHARPER - a brand-new 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩-𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘹 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦-𝘰𝘧-𝘧𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳 ✨ A highlight of the experiment: the new aerodynamic levitator, enabling containerless neutron measurements on molten metals, oxides, and ceramics! www.ill.eu/news-and-eve...

On Day 3 of ICNS 2025! ♟️ Science Strategy 🦑 nano-materials for deep-sea ✨ multiband superconductivity in a material 🫧 water electrolysis 🥅 MOFs for CO₂ reduction 🧲 magnetism and polymers 💾 new memory devices 🔘 vesicle membranes 🆕 Instrument D007 📐 new wide-angle XYZ neutron polarisation

Ending Day2@ICNS2025: 💥 Ken Andersen's ILL update, with a round of applause for the news of operations until 2033👏 💥 Iurii Kibalin Instrumentation & Innovation Award 2025, congratulation! 🎉 💥 Many talks and posters by ILL scientists and users alike. 💥 ILL@ICNS group photo 📷

Day 2 of ICNS 2025! Here's an highlight of ILL science/data recommended in today's programme! 🧊 plastic water 🔄 splitting of hydrogen's quantum rotational levels ⭐ ILL update talk 🧠 𝙡𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙙-𝙡𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙙 𝙥𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, a key process in neurodegenerative disease mechanisms

It was a great first day at ICNS 2025! With a great deal of ILL people and ILL data in it, and great participation in our #neutronsforeurope booth, shared between ILL and ESS👏👏💥

The International Conference on Neutron Scattering (ICNS) 2025 starts today in Copenhagen, Denmark! Here's an highlight of ILL science to be displayed today ! 🌑 dark matter 🍨 Food science 🌿 plant-based meat analogues

The ILL Science Strategy is published! It outlines the approach that will be taken to leverage on our extensively upgraded instruments and facility. Elaborated in collaboration with external experts, it provides a vision for scientific operation for the coming decade.

🔮 ℂ𝕣𝕪𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕝 𝕔𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕣 | 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. www.ill.eu/news-and-eve...

🪞 𝐀 𝐧𝐞𝐰 ('𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫') 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐋𝐋 Developed by our Neutron Optics Service, T3 is now fully operational. Dedicated to characterising the neutron supermirrors produced at the ILL, T3 is a vital milestone for the development of advanced neutron optics systems

Happy users ! And we understand their awe at our mountains! www.ill.eu/fileadmin/us...

Extension of our collaboration for 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐞 production with ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE! 🤝🏼 “𝘐𝘛𝘔 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘓𝘓’𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯 2009 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘺,” commented Andrew Cavey, CEO of ITM.

📣 Big big big news from the Institut Laue-Langevin! 📣 We're thrilled to announce that our three Associate countries - France, the UK, and Germany - have 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟑𝟑! 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 www.ill.eu/infos-presse...

An exciting panel of speakers to discuss 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 ! 📅 Send your abstract + register by May 25th 💻 Computational tools and databases 🔍 Proteome wide approaches 📐 Applied protein design 🧩 Integrated approaches in Life Science www.psb-grenoble.eu/psbsymposium...

📣Ionic conduction - the mobility of charged ions through solid electrolytes - is essential in rechargeable batteries and fuel cells and thus one of the main processes in new materials for the energy transition. 🔋♻️ Excellent review, with ILL cold neutrons QENS data inside!💥👇🏼 #neutronsforsociety

📣Neutrons are back at the ILL!📣 The first reactor cycle of 2025 started and will go on for 63 days at a power of 42.5 MW. Close to 650 scientific users from 28 countries will come to perform over 350 experiments in our suite of 40 state-of-the-art neutron scattering instruments. 💥

An international team from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social , @ucl.ac.uk , and ILL has shed light on how specially designed PIM membranes selectively extract lithium from salt lake brines - with neutrons playing a key role in understanding the molecular mechanism www.ill.eu/news-and-eve...

🏛️ GATES Initiative: Shaping the future of science, one PhD at a time 🏛️ ILL and UGA will co-supervise more than 24 PhD theses by 2032... Meet the first four PhD candidates: Finn, Aelton, Theodore and Renaud! www.ill.eu/infos-presse...

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 ILL - Institut Laue Langevin! 🧐 International research centre at the cutting edge of neutron science and technology. 🔗 Their website 👉 www.ill.eu 🔗 Their job offers 👉 lnkd.in/g63-eu2E #NextstepDoctoralProgramme #PhD #Research#ScienceTogether #MSCA

🇵🇱 Neutron training for Poland's Future Scientists 👩‍🎓 As part of the Polish Scientific Member partnership, the ILL welcomed ten students and two supervisors from Poland for an intensive week-long training designed to introduce them to the world of neutron scattering. www.ill.eu/infos-presse...

𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐄𝐏𝐍 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐬: 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 - in 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘺𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. The European Photon and Neutron campus host the ILL, @embl.org , @esrf.fr – and the French Institut de Biologie Structurale. www.ill.eu/news-and-eve...

Happy #WorldQuantumDay ✨🌍 This is the 5th story related to #Quantum #Materials to be published on our website in 2025 - the Year of Quantum Science ! ✴ 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐮𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 ✴ www.ill.eu/news-and-eve...

🧴 Engineering Shampoo Performance with #NeutronScience ! #sustainable hair-care products - with improved conditioning effects - could be designed with the help of #Neutrons !♻️ Read more about Serena Cozzolino's project : www.ill.eu/news-and-eve...

✨ Join us in celebrating the outstanding achievements of Regine von Klitzing, recipient of the 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫-𝐊𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓! 👏🏽🏆 www.ill.eu/infos-presse... #womeninstem #womeninscience #PhysicsExcellence #NeutronScience #SoftMatter

Registration for the 7th International Symposium on Diffraction Structural Biology (ISDSB 2025) is open for another 2 weeks ! 🤸 Sign up for this new to be held from 5th – 7th May, 2025 in Grenoble, France! www.psb-grenoble.eu/isdsb2025/

🦠 ➡️🧈Turning Peptides into Gold! ✨ What if tiny viral peptides could help us design the next generation of nanomaterials? 📖 Read more: www.ill.eu/news-and-eve... 📑Original article: doi.org/10.1002/adfm...

⚡Neutrons Reveal ‘Power Naps’ for Electrolysers! A recent study using high-resolution neutron imaging has unveiled why pulsed operation improves CO₂ electrolysis efficiency - increasing water at the cathode during rest periods, dissolving carbonate precipitates, and preventing electrode flooding 🌊

👏🏽 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Jennifer Graham has been recognised for her “ground-breaking contributions to the study of frustrated magnets using neutron polarisation analysis combined with novel data analysis methodologies, and especially her discovery of a spiral spin liquid phase in LiYbO2.” ‍💫

Welcome to HERCULES 2025! 🚀😊 Delighted to welcome 75 participants from 30 countries for a truly international and dynamic learning environment. Over the next 5 weeks, participants will dive into neutron and X-ray science and visit world-class large-scale facilities.

Join the Nextstep Doctoral Programme groundbreaking training program and become a future scientist equipped to tackle the challenges of sustainable development and innovation!! 👇🏼

We are really looking forward to welcoming your application soon! Stay tuned !

🧊 💧 ☁️ In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states: solid, liquid or gas. But there are many more phases referred to as 𝘦𝘹𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤. 🥇 Our spectrometers and sample environment infrastructures have enabled the 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 of plastic ice VII !

⭐ 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞! The world needs science, and science needs everyone - including women! Get a glimpse into the diverse scientific fields where EIROforum women apply their expertise and passion to shape our understanding of the world. 🎞️ 👇🏽 #WomenInScience

🧐 Layered perovskites YBaCuFeO5 is a promising class of materials exhibiting interesting magneto-electric behaviour up to room temperatures... ⚡ ILL experiments using five different instruments revealed their spiral magnetic structure, finally establishing the common origin of its properties!

Many thanks to everyone involved in the organisation and completion of this visit!

By linking theoretical predictions with neutron experiments at the ILL, a group of researchers led by @psich.bsky.social have found evidence for quantum spin ice in the material Ce2Sn2O7. ... further exploration of #quantum phenomena in materials with potential applications in #quantumcomputing 💻

📣2025 School on Neutron Diffraction Data Treatment using the FullProf Suite!!! 📍Institute Laue-Langevin @illneutrons.bsky.social (Grenoble, France) 📆March 31 to April 4, 2025 More info 👇 workshops.ill.fr/event/504/

🧪 "Mabs" are essential in the treatment of many diseases, but their viscosity often makes them difficult to inject. Find out how researchers have discovered how they behave in solution, which could revolutionise treatment delivery! 💡 #Neutros4society #science #research #innovation #health

Today, we celebrate 58 incredible years of scientific excellence and international collaboration 🌍🔬 👀 Your Challenge: 1️⃣ How many familiar faces can you spot? 2️⃣ How many different languages can you identify in the video? youtube.com/shorts/tjFQL...