https://neutronsources.org/ https://neutronsources.org/ en-us Copyright (C) neutronsources.org The second call for applicants for the GNeuS fellowship programme opens on 1 November 2022. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1140 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1140 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 Scientists working at the Institut Laue-Langevin have carried out the first investigation of two-dimensional fermion liquids using neutron scattering, and discovered a new type of very short wave-length density wave. The team believe their discovery, published today in Nature, will interest researchers looking at electronic systems, since high-temperature superconductivity could result from this type of density fluctuation. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=36 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=36 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 In Berlin, more than 300 scientists have gathered to define the science of the future European Spallation Source. In total, ideas from more than 1000 scientists have been fed into the project. ESS will be one of Europes largest science facilities. It will be the worlds brightest facility for advanced materials research and life science with neutrons. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=84 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=84 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 Stress corrosion - combined action of mechanical stress and corrosion by water from the surrounding atmosphere - is often the cause of crack propagation in glasses. A study by neutron reflectivity at the Laboratoire Lon Brillouin IRAMIS LLB of samples of silica glass fractured under an atmosphere of heavy water D2O shows a high penetration of water into the glass. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=86 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=86 Wed, 30 May 2012 1st June 2012 marks 80 years since Cambridge Physicist James Chadwicks famous Nobel Prize winning paper, proving the existence of the neutron, was published by the Royal Society. Chadwicks discovery led to the development of neutron research which has been making breakthroughs across the sciences. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=58 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=58 Sun, 01 Jul 2012 For a healthy human organism, the ideal body temperature is about 37 degrees Celsius, while for platypus 33C are sufficient. A team of neutron researchers has now discovered how the haemoglobin of various species adapted to different body temperatures during the course of evolution. Thanks to its properties, haemoglobin can optimally transport oxygen from the lungs to the cells at the respective temperature. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=59 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=59 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 Nowadays all diesel motor vehicles are fitted with a particulate filter as standard. However it is not known exactly how the soot particles are deposited inside these filters. Now, by Neutron Tomography, researchers at PSI have made the soot inside filters visible, creating a foundation from which these filters can be optimised and developed further. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=60 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=60 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 An international team of researchers has discovered an excellent new material for studying the behaviour of spins. The spins in the colourless salt LiErF4 behave like real bar magnets. They also managed to switch on and off the magnetic properties of the material using quantum mechanics. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=85 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=85 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 About the British physicist Peter Higgs has been much talk recently. Researchers at the European Nuclear Research Center CERN in Geneva were more likely to prove what he predicted in the 1960s as a Higgs boson. His proposed Higgs mechanism explains how elementary particles get their mass - and also plays a role beyond elementary particle physics. By using neutron scattering experiments, an international research team found the first indication that this mechanism can explain a phase transition of exotic magnetic states in a Yb2Ti2O7 crystal near absolute zero. During the cooling of a so called quantum spin ice state, they observed for the first time evidence of a spontaneous exchange with what Peter Higgs had predicted as a Higgs field in a magnet. The results are published in Nature Communications. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=188 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=188 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 Tennant was honored for the experimental observation of magnetic monopoles using neutron scattering at the Berlin research reactor BER II. He shares the 2012 prize with 5 other scientists for the prediction and experimental observation of magnetic monopoles in spin ice. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=87 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=87 Mon, 03 Sep 2012 Scientists at FRM II in collaboration with the Institute of Applied Materials - Energy Storage Systems IAM-ESS and the Materials Science Department used neutron diffraction to observe an important process that contributes to fatigue in current Li-ion batteries. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=168 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=168 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 In 2011 it has been decided that a new nuclear reactor will be constructed in Argentina. It will become the 10th nuclear reactor in the country and the Atomic Energy National Commission Comisin Nacional de Energa Atmica, CNEA, which is the main responsible for the project, plans that this OPAL-like reactor will start operating by 2018 in a location to be defined. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=190 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=190 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of W. H. Bragg and the 100th anniversary of Braggs law, Ins Crespo reviews the reasoning that led W. L. Bragg to his famous equation, setting the foundations for the deployment of neutron diffraction to spur development in fields as varied as computer memory chips, aircraft turbine engines and energy storage devices. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=191 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=191 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 The successful collaboration between the Technical University of Munich, the Jlich Research Centre and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht received a new name: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum MLZ. The inaugural ceremony was held in Garching, Germany. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=98 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=98 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 The European Crystallographic Association ECA and the European Neutron Scattering Association ENSA announced the call for nominations for the 6th Bertaut Prize. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=99 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=99 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 FRM II participates in TU Munich research project to develop local energy buffer systems. The purpose of this initiative is to make more efficient use of renewable energy resources. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=167 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=167 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 In order to observe how oil is distributed inside a clutch, developmental engineers from the Schaeffler-Brand LuK D together with scientists from PSI are working together, illuminating metals with neutrons. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=151 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=151 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 Researchers used neutrons to investigate how ozone causes severe respiratory problems and thousands of cases of premature death each year by attacking the fatty lining of our lungs. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=184 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=184 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 Discoveries about the Mary Rose ship vessel made from experiments performed at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, Switzerland will change our understanding of history. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=220 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=220 Sun, 14 Apr 2013 Liquid water, the most familiar liquid, is still not completely understood, even less so all the processes in which it participates. We describe the present situation of research concerning the so-called anomalies of liquid water at low temperature. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=171 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=171 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 Since the period that followed World War II, gas turbines have developed to become more efficient, which led to increased gas temperatures inside the turbines. It is estimated that future gas turbines will function at temperatures about 200C higher than today. The materials currently used cannot withstand such high temperatures. For this reason it is necessary to investigate new materials. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=185 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=185 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 Small angle neutron scattering SANS has potential as a non-invasive analytical tool in archaeometry, also in conjunction with other, more usual, methodologies. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=170 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=170 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 For the measurement of the electric dipole moment of the neutron at FRM II, the research group of Prof Peter Fierlinger from the Excellence Cluster Universe at TUM and the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Berlin are provided with 3.45 million euros. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=187 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=187 Fri, 03 May 2013 In industrial settings, employees may be exposed to high concentrations of metals while working indoors. Neutrons give insights into the air quality in the workplace. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=189 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=189 Mon, 06 May 2013 Selenium Se is an essential micronutrient for human health, protecting, for example, against cardiovascular disease, male sterility and certain forms of cancer. Even though it is a common nutrient e.g. in cereals, it is lacking in the diet of at least 1 billion people around the globe. The few available data indicate that Portugal is one of the countries concerned. A research project taking place in Portugal aims to assess the levels of Se in the countrys cereals and soils. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=205 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=205 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 Scientists working at the Institut Laue-Langevin have shown that the charge of gold nanoparticles, identified by major pharmaceutical companies as a drug delivery agent of the future for the treatment of cancer, affects how they interact with our cells protective outer wall. These crucial insights, published in Langmuir, provide a first step in the effective design of safe nanoparticles for biomedical applications and the practices and procedures for their secure handling in a variety of other consumer products. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=216 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=216 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 The existence of the protonated hexatitanate H2Ti6O13 was only very recently demonstrated, even though only a partial characterisation has been accomplished. Our analysis of data from synchrotron and neutron powder diffraction, combined with IR spectroscopy data, provided us with a precise determination of the crystal structure, thus shedding light on the electrochemical properties of the material and the charge and discharge processes. H2Ti6O13 finally revealed itself to be an interesting material for rechargeable lithium batteries. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=192 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=192 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 The Joint Research Activities JRAs supported by NMI3-I have brought experts together from facilities across Europe to develop new techniques and instrumentation for neutron and muon research. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=227 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=227 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 ILL Scientists have for the very first time given a complete description of a one-dimensional spin-12 Heisenberg antiferromagnet. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=215 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=215 Sun, 16 Jun 2013 The Sixth Erwin Felix Lewy Bertaut Prize of the European Crystallographic Association ECA and European Neutron Scattering Association ENSA is awarded to Dr. Johan Chang. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=213 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=213 Tue, 25 Jun 2013 It is a great pleasure to announce that the winner of the 2013 Walter Hlg prize is Professor Joe Zaccai. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=214 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=214 Tue, 25 Jun 2013 ESS will have 22 neutron instruments, available to the research community for probing the interior of scientific samples. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=223 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=223 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 The new Research in Jlich Magazine App is now available. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=225 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=225 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 For the economic efficiency of electric vehicles a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of lithium intercalation into the electrode materials during charge and discharge will be advantageous. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=218 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=218 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 Neutron scattering at ILL and ISIS delves inside new crime scene forensics technique developed by the University of Leicester. Research to address the fact that only 10 of fingerprints taken from crime scenes yield identifications that are usable in court. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=217 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=217 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 Organized by researchers around Europe, the ESS Science Symposia play an important part in identifying the scientific potential of ESS and the instruments and facilities required to realize that potential. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=224 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=224 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 The LANSCE User Group Executive Committee is pleased to announce that Adam Holley has been awarded the 2013 Rosen Prize for his doctoral thesis on Ultracold Neutron Polarimetry in a Measurement of the Asymmetry. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=222 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=222 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 Researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have made thin, crystalline layers of the material LuMnO3 that are both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=226 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=226 Mon, 22 Jul 2013 Important scientific achievements were presented at the International Conference on Neutron Scattering in Edinburgh. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=231 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=231 Mon, 29 Jul 2013 More and more bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics thus making these drugs useless. The understanding of this mechanism could help develop new antibiotics. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=234 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=234 Tue, 06 Aug 2013 Scientists from Forschungszentrum Jlich have developed an innovative paint brush cleaner, which works without solvents. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=228 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=228 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 Prof. Dr. Alan Tennant has been selected as the new Chief Scientist for the Neutron Sciences Directorate, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He will start in his new capacity there in November 2013. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=229 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=229 Fri, 16 Aug 2013 Experiments conducted at the PSI have made it possible to determine how a unique Bronze Age axe was made. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=238 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=238 Fri, 30 Aug 2013 The next deadline for neutron beam time request to perform neutron scattering experiments at LLB is October 1. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=232 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=232 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 We have now a new section with Educational Material https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=233 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=233 Fri, 06 Sep 2013 MLZ contributes with a range of methods and components to the NMI3s joint research activities. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=235 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=235 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 The Data Analysis WP and the Computing for Science group at the ILL provide a ready to run LiveDVD that includes a set of neutron scattering software. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=239 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=239 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 Very promising results were obtained considering the PEMFC applications. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=240 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=240 Thu, 19 Sep 2013 LANSCE is pleased to announce the 2013-2014 Rosen Scholars: Dr. Devinder Sivia, St. Johns College, Oxford and Dr. Paul Koehler, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=241 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=241 Thu, 19 Sep 2013 For the first time, scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have determined the paths along which sodium ions move in a prospective battery material. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=242 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=242 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 Experiments at the Technical University of Munich show that the antidepressant lithium accumulates more strongly in white matter of the brain than in grey matter. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=244 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=244 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 About two dozen representatives from the main European facilities have met for the 5th harmonization meeting on 26 and 27 June at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=243 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=243 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 As part of the NMI3-II Detectors JRA, scientists at the BNC explore alternatives to Helium-3 so that neutron detectors can become more efficient and provide better data. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=247 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=247 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 Device could open up new areas of research on materials and biological samples at tiny scales. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=245 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=245 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 Studies at ISIS have shown that adding ash generated as waste from sugar production could make cement stronger, able to withstand higher pressure, and less likely to crumble. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=246 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=246 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 French officials say they are prepared to sign a Letter of Intent committing to the construction of the European Spallation Source. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=248 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=248 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 CROSS-Tokai is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals to use the Public Beamlines at the Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility of J-PARC in the 2014A operations period. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=249 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=249 Thu, 24 Oct 2013 Polymer vesicles, also named polymersomes, are valuable candidates for drug delivery and micro- or nanoreactor applications. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=250 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=250 Fri, 25 Oct 2013 The Neutron and Muon European Schools the NMI3 initiative on Education has a new name and a logo. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=252 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=252 Mon, 04 Nov 2013 ANSTO is now calling for proposal for a variety of neutron-beam instruments and facilities. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=253 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=253 Mon, 04 Nov 2013 Using high resolution neutron scattering at the instrument TRISP of the Max-Planck Society at MLZ, the lifetime of magnetic spin waves was measured and for the first time a correct theory was developed. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=254 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=254 Wed, 06 Nov 2013 NMI3 supports a joint initiative by the University of Copenhagen, the Technical University of Denmark, the Technical University of Munich, and the Institut Laue-Langevin to develop an e-learning platform on neutron scattering. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=256 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=256 Thu, 07 Nov 2013 Particle and Particle Systems Characterization: Small-Angle Scattering Applications https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=257 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=257 Mon, 11 Nov 2013 MaMaSELF registration for the year 20142015 runs until 26 January 2014. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=258 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=258 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 Researchers studying more effective ways to convert woody plant matter into biofuels at ORNL have identified fundamental forces that change plant structures during pretreatment processes used in the production of bioenergy. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=260 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=260 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 The Executive Committee of the LANSCE User Group is seeking nominations for representatives to serve on the Executive Committee beginning 2014. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=255 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=255 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 The Neutron Scattering Society of America requests formal nominations of Candidates for the 2014 NSSA Prizes and of Candidates to be elected as NSSA Fellows. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=259 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=259 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 Have you ever eaten lupins They are a common snack in Mediterranean countries. Learn where and how the roots of these plants take water from the soil. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=261 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=261 Fri, 22 Nov 2013 NMI3 has launched an initiative to examine the interaction between industry and neutron muon facilities. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=266 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=266 Mon, 25 Nov 2013 The analysis of cholesterol and lipids transfer shows the advantages of combining the methods of RSE and vesicle fusion to prepare tBLMs solid-supported membrane models. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=267 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=267 Mon, 25 Nov 2013 Scientists have used neutron reflectometry to look at lubricant additives and their interactions with iron, a common engineering material, to discover how these molecules function. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=268 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=268 Wed, 27 Nov 2013 Researchers have obtained new insights into the bonding of water by using neutrons on the instrument TOFTOF of the MLZ. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=269 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=269 Fri, 29 Nov 2013 For the first time Prof. Dr. Tobias Unruh and his team have demonstrated with neutrons how long-chain molecules in their liquid melt move. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=271 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=271 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 Professor William Stirling has been appointed the new Director of the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, with effect from 1st January 2014. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=278 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=278 Thu, 12 Dec 2013 Scientists report the first example of spontaneous self-assembly of ionic octahedral IrIII complexes containing carboxylates counterions into luminescent ordered aqueous gel phases. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=274 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=274 Tue, 17 Dec 2013 Physicists at the Paul Scherrer Institute have now demonstrated that a novel superconducting state is only created in the material CeCoIn5 when there are strong external magnetic fields. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=273 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=273 Sun, 22 Dec 2013 Industry Advisory Board members have met industry liaison officers and scientists last December for the first common Neutron and X-ray Industry Advisory Board meeting. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=276 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=276 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 Annie Brlet, the coordinator of this Joint Research Activity, told us about this collaborations main goals and achievements. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=277 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=277 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 The Abstract Submission website for the 2014 American Conference on Neutron Scattering is now open. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=281 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=281 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 The Bragg Institutes Helen Maynard-Caselys Crystallography 365 blog aims to post a crystal structure a day for 2014 as part of the International Year of Crystallography. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=279 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=279 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 Proposals for beamtime at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum MLZ in Garching near Munich will be accepted until the 2nd of May. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=280 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=280 Wed, 15 Jan 2014 You are invited to apply for time on the neutron beam instruments at the NIST Center for Neutron Research NCNR. The deadline for all proposals is February 20, 2014. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=283 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=283 Tue, 21 Jan 2014 We have now a map with all the neutron sources worldwide. You can browse it to learn about each one and then have a look at dedicated webpages with information about each research centre and neutron association worldwide. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=4 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=4 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 An interactive panorama shows research in the neutron guide hall west of the FRM II. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=282 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=282 Thu, 23 Jan 2014 lll https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=233 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=233 Fri, 24 Jan 2014 A team in CEA Saclay is working on a new detector that uses boron-10 instead of helium-3. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=285 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=285 Tue, 28 Jan 2014 The OPAL Neutron Beam Facility and National Deuteration Facility accept proposal submissions until March 15, 2014 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=284 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=284 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 The deadline for submission of proposals to perform experiments during the 2014 second semester at the BER II neutron beam in HZB is the 1st of March. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=286 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=286 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 Researchers believe theyve learned why one of the main classes of these materials, known as relaxors, behaves in distinctly different ways from the rest and exhibit the largest piezoelectric effect. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=290 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=290 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 HZBzlog the new series highlight is now online. Dont miss an episode https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=287 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=287 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 The deadlines of the call for proposals to perform experiments at the instruments of the Jlich Centre for Neutron Science are February 1 and May 2. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=293 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=293 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 All available beam lines will accept proposals through February 26, 2014. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=288 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=288 Fri, 31 Jan 2014 The call for nominations for the Rosen Scholar fellowship is now open. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=294 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=294 Fri, 31 Jan 2014 The polarized single crystal diffractometer POLI in MLZ has seen neutrons at its new beam line SR 9a for the first time. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=295 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=295 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 NMUM will be held in April 10-11, 2014. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=289 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=289 Fri, 07 Feb 2014 The Neutron Scattering Society of America NSSA is pleased to announce the 2014 NSSA prize winners. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=291 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=291 Mon, 10 Feb 2014 The Neutron Scattering Society of America is pleased to announce the selection of its new 2014 NSSA Fellows. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=292 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=292 Mon, 10 Feb 2014 JOINT proposal round with the aim to promote and facilitate the complementary use of X-rays and neutrons. Deadline for proposal submission: Feb 20, 2014 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=296 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=296 Thu, 13 Feb 2014 The MLZs User Office has a new blog. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=298 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=298 Fri, 14 Feb 2014 Call for proposals for access to integrated multidisciplinary facilities for Materials and Biomaterials https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=299 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=299 Fri, 14 Feb 2014 A design optimization study by a team of the European Spallation Source. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=297 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=297 Wed, 19 Feb 2014 Neutronsources.org and the neutron mailing list: make sure you dont miss any important information https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=300 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=300 Wed, 19 Feb 2014 A team of researchers reveal the similarities and differences in the local structure of the FeNbB glasses and their crystalline counterparts. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=304 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=304 Wed, 19 Feb 2014 A team of scientists achieved a five-fold reduction in the dominant uncertainty in an experiment that measured the mean lifetime of the free neutron, resulting in a substantial improvement of previous results. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=302 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=302 Fri, 21 Feb 2014 The Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in Switzerland is celebrating its 40th anniversary. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=303 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=303 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 The Networking group on Data Analysis Standards has setup a Debian repository that provides a simple way to install scientific software for the neutron and muon communities. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=305 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=305 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 Henrich Frielinghaus and Marie-Sousai Appavou from the JCNS-MLZ are developing a new pressure cell. This work, which is funded by NMI3, will broaden the research possibilities in several scientific fields. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=306 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=306 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 The VITESS team is happy to announce that there is a new version of the neutron simulation software VITESS available for download. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=307 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=307 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 The Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for NuclearResearch invites you to apply for beam time. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=308 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=308 Fri, 28 Feb 2014 User operations at the Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility of J-PARC resumed this week following a 9-month shutdown. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=309 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=309 Mon, 03 Mar 2014 The next deadline for neutron beam time request to perform neutron scattering experiments at LLB-Orphee is April 1st. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=310 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=310 Thu, 06 Mar 2014 The 2nd International Symposium of Science at J-PARC will be held in Tsukuba, Japan in July. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=311 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=311 Thu, 06 Mar 2014 The workshop on Structure and dynamics of confined and interfacial fluids: blending scattering and computer modeling techniques will take place at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in July. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=312 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=312 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 For exactly ten years the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz research neutron source FRM II of the Technical University of Munich TUM has been providing research, industry and medicine with neutrons. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=314 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=314 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 Registration has now opened for the 8th International Workshop on Sample Environment at Neutron Scattering Facilities. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=313 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=313 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 In an experiment the sample might degrade and produce questionable results. In a video, researchers explain their work on a set up to control the sample quality along time. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=316 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=316 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 The first public release of our DiffPy Complex Modeling Initiative DiffPy-CMI project has just been announced. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=318 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=318 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 The application of a neutron microbeam to the investigation of an internal magnetic microstructure has been demonstrated experimentally. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=317 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=317 Mon, 31 Mar 2014 LANSCE is disappointed by the decision of the US Department of Energy to cease their operational support of the Lujan Neutron Scattering Center in fiscal year 2015. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=320 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=320 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 Call for proposals for experiments at the Paul Scherrer Institute. NMI3 support is available to cover researchers expenses within Europe. The deadline for submission is May 15. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=319 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=319 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 By performing neutron-scattering measurements, scientists could observe what happens during a quantum phase transition, and compare the quantum melting of the magnetic structure with the thermal melting phase transition. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=322 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=322 Sun, 06 Apr 2014 Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may get the lions share of attention in climate change discussions, but the biggest repository of carbon is actually underfoot. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=323 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=323 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 Nikolay Kardjilov from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin tells about the aims of the groups involved in the NMI3 Imaging Joint Research Activity. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=324 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=324 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 First results from a low energy, table top alternative takes validity of Newtonian gravity down by five orders of magnitude and narrows the potential properties of the forces and particles that may exist beyond it by more than one hundred thousand times. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=325 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=325 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 The vibrational dynamics of a new class of cross-linked polymers made up of cyclodextrins was investigated in the microscopic range by the joint use of light and inelastic neutron scattering experiments. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=327 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=327 Sat, 19 Apr 2014 In the future, antineutrino detectors may provide an additional option for monitoring. Physicists at Technische Universitaet Muenchen have now found interesting results using fast neutrons from MLZ. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=328 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=328 Thu, 24 Apr 2014 An experiment demonstrates the ability to conduct, for the first time, simultaneous SANS and DSC measurements. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=326 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=326 Mon, 28 Apr 2014 The Lujan Neutron Scattering Center invites proposals addressing science of NNSA and LANL programmatic interest for the 2014 run cycle. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=329 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=329 Fri, 02 May 2014 You are invited to submit proposals for beam time at LANSCE for nuclear science experiments and semiconductor irradiations for the run cycle scheduled to begin in October 2014. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=330 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=330 Fri, 02 May 2014 Today, the general assembly of the German Atomic Forum DAtF Deutsches Atomforum e.V. has confirmed unanimously the election of the DAtF Presidential Council of Prof. Dr. Winfried Petry for Vice President. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=331 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=331 Wed, 07 May 2014 To submit a proposal for neutron scattering experiments can be a long procedure. Thanks to NMI3 support, a group is working on an Integrated User Access to make this procedure easier to both users and facilities. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=332 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=332 Tue, 13 May 2014 Conflicting results in measurements of how long neutrons live has physicists rethinking their experiments, because solving the riddle may point the way to exotic new physics https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=350 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=350 Tue, 13 May 2014 The Canadian Neutron Beam Centre invites user proposals for neutron beam time on its six beamlines. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=333 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=333 Wed, 14 May 2014 The team of Prof. D. Schlter ETHZ pushes for a mild and facile and rational approach to the synthesis of new 2-D materials using specially-designed monomers to control internal pattern. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=348 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=348 Fri, 16 May 2014 J-PARC Center and CROSS-Tokai are pleased to announce the call for General Use proposals for the neutron and muon beamlines at the Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility of J-PARC in the 2014B user beamtime period. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=347 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=347 Mon, 19 May 2014 Imagine is the new cold neutron imaging station at the LLB. One on the first experiments done on this station investigated the Quality grading of cork stoppers: amount of defects inside the material. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=349 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=349 Tue, 20 May 2014 Findings of Jlich researchers reveal the power play in myelin basic protein and revolutionize prevailing assumptions about the biomolecular functioning of this key element of the central nervous. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=353 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=353 Wed, 21 May 2014 New findings challenge widely accepted views of how algae respond to light where the light harvesting proteins were thought to move around the membranes. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=352 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=352 Mon, 26 May 2014 The generalization of this method to other materials opens new perspectives toward many applications. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=355 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=355 Thu, 05 Jun 2014 Applied Scintillation Technologies Ltd Appscintech is pleased to announce it has been granted European and American trademarks for its 6Li doped cerium aluminosilicate thermal neutron glass: GS20. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=354 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=354 Tue, 10 Jun 2014 The meeting is a first discussion forum of European User Offices. It will become an opportunity to know each facility workflows and achievements as well as common worries and future developments. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=356 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=356 Wed, 11 Jun 2014 v3.0.0 of the popular SasView model-fitting software has just been released for Windows 32 bit, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 64 bit and Mac OSX. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=357 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=357 Wed, 11 Jun 2014 Researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have succeeded in imaging the distribution of frozen and liquid water in a hydrogen fuel cell directly for the first time. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=359 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=359 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 The May meeting of the ESS Scientific Advisory Committee SAC was a critical step for the facility. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=363 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=363 Wed, 18 Jun 2014 Muonsources.org is now live https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=358 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=358 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 Ten years after its first criticality regulations require the FRM II to do extensive tests on its main systems. Goal of these tests is to prove the safe operation of the FRM II for the years to come. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=360 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=360 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 G. Joe Zaccai, the 2013 Walter Haelg prize winner, offers us his personal account of the early days of neutrons in biology. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=344 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=344 Sat, 28 Jun 2014 Results show that the synthetic polyallylamine hydrochloride PAH conformation is a determining factor not only for film growth but also for structural properties. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=361 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=361 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 Scientists develop a new analytical model to suppress undesirable surface effect. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=362 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=362 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 Neutrons shed light on vital enzymes mechanism of action. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=364 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=364 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 A team of researchers have solved a long-standing mystery in biology by identifying the structure of a vital enzyme intermediate. The debate boils down to something as simple as a hydrogen atom: is it there, or not https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=365 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=365 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 The beta test period for version 3.2 has now closed and the software has been release on the 11th of July. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=366 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=366 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 On Tuesday 8 July morning the ILLs high flux reactor was started after the long shut-down since August 2013. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=367 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=367 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 A new humidity chamber will be used for neutron scattering experiments to reproduce the human body conditions in order to shed light on biological processes such as the development of Alzheimers disease. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=368 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=368 Fri, 18 Jul 2014 Right on time for the International Year of Crystallography, Nature Milestones special issue on crystallography is now out. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=369 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=369 Mon, 21 Jul 2014 Researchers developed a novel method, based on energy-selective neutron imaging for visualization of crystalline phase distributions within the bulk of metallic samples. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=370 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=370 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 Anton Heidemann presents a personal view of the history of Backscattering, starting from the day he obtained his diploma on Physics in 1966. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=344 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=344 Fri, 01 Aug 2014 Neutron scattering experiment at PUMA resolves a contentious superconducting issue. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=371 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=371 Fri, 01 Aug 2014 The MLF School 2014 will be held during 16-19 December 2014 at J-PARC in Tokai, Japan. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=372 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=372 Mon, 04 Aug 2014 Results demonstrate the potential of such self-assembled materials for the design of bulk proton conductors. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=381 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=381 Thu, 07 Aug 2014 A new patch release to Mantid that corrects some significant issues since the last full release has been released. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=373 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=373 Fri, 22 Aug 2014 Start of the 35th operating cycle: the FRM II provides users and customers from science, industry and medicine after a thorough review again neutrons and irradiation services. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=379 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=379 Fri, 22 Aug 2014 The proposal submission deadline for neutron scattering experiments at the Budapest Neutron Centre BNC is October 15, 2014. NMI3 support is available. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=375 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=375 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 The deadline for submission is October 15, 2014. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=376 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=376 Mon, 01 Sep 2014 The next Berlin School on Neutron Scattering will be between February 26 and March 6, 2015. Dont forget to register before October 15. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=385 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=385 Mon, 01 Sep 2014 Danish and Swedish ministers will start the construction of ESS today. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=374 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=374 Tue, 02 Sep 2014 Thanks to neutrons, scientists could investigate the interaction between antibody and antigens and the importance of a blocking protein, present in home pregnancy tests. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=383 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=383 Tue, 02 Sep 2014 Lithium-ion batteries are seen as a solution for energy storage of the future. Their key advantage is that they can store large amounts of energy but are light and compact. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=377 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=377 Wed, 03 Sep 2014 A paper reveals the RS distribution in a 20 mm thick plate of 7075 Al alloy. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=380 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=380 Wed, 03 Sep 2014 The next deadline for neutron beam time request to perform neutron scattering experiments at LLB-Orphee is October 1st. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=378 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=378 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 The official start of the construction for the European Spallation Source was on September 2. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=384 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=384 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 NMI3 supports a European collaboration to develop an atmospheric plasma deposition system to produce Boron-10 layers. You can watch the video https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=386 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=386 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 The deadline at Oak Ridge National Laboratorys High Flux Isotope Reactor HFIR and Spallation Neutron Source SNS for proposals is October 15. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=387 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=387 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 The NIST Center for Neutron Research NCNR offers neutron scattering and chemical analysis instruments to all qualified users. The next deadline for receipt of proposals is Tuesday, October 7, 2014. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=388 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=388 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 McStas 2.1 is released and ready for download. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=389 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=389 Mon, 15 Sep 2014 The source of the proton beam at PSI is a retro-style Cockcroft-Walton linear accelerator. It was the first acceleration stage for protons which are taken up to around 80 of the speed of light. Since 1994 it has held the world record as the highest performing beam. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=396 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=396 Tue, 23 Sep 2014 Magnets are the unsung heroes in particle accelerators because they keep protons or electrons on track. Some of the magnets at PSI are masterpieces of precision and control. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=397 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=397 Thu, 25 Sep 2014 Dr. Marc Janoschek has received the Wolfram-Prandl-Prize 2014 of the German Committee Research with Neutrons during the SNI conference. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=390 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=390 Mon, 29 Sep 2014 Zaccai, the 2013 Walter Haelg prize winner, offers us his personal account of the early days of neutrons in biology. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=391 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=391 Mon, 29 Sep 2014 Today, several hundred members of the European scientific community are gathering at the ESS construction site, for the ESS Foundation Stone Ceremony. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=392 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=392 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 Call for proposals for the beam time period I15 between 01052015 and 31082015. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=393 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=393 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 Research paper shows a good example of where experiments both at PANDA and PUMA at the FRM II equally contribute to a common research. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=394 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=394 Fri, 10 Oct 2014 J-PARC MLF and CROSS announced that the 2015A General Use proposal round will be open from Friday 17 October 2014. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=395 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=395 Fri, 10 Oct 2014 Neutron scattering experiments at the ILL have revealed the existence of quantum selection rules in molecules, the first experimental confirmation of its kind. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=398 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=398 Fri, 10 Oct 2014 You are interested in visiting the FRM II, but too young or too far away No problem: An interactive tour gives you insights into the neutron source - without any restriction on admission. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=399 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=399 Tue, 21 Oct 2014 Dr Margaret Elcombe of the ANSTO has been announced the first Australian winner of the prestigious annual international Women in Nuclear WiN Global Award. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=435 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=435 Tue, 21 Oct 2014 The High field magnet is producing a stable magnetic field of 26 Tesla and is thus even a little stronger than the scientists and engineers dared to hope. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=403 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=403 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 Neutronsources.org is now on Twitter. You can now easily learn about all news and updates from the worlds neutron sources by following NeutronSources. http://twitter.com/neutronsources http://twitter.com/neutronsources Thu, 23 Oct 2014 Thanks to NMI3 support, scientists will learn to use FullProf at the Institute Laue-Langevin from 2 to 6 March 2015. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=402 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=402 Fri, 24 Oct 2014 Lets travel back in time and imagine how life on earth was before the biggest mass extinction. Thanks to NMI3 a scientist used neutrons to investigate the mechanisms through which the K. fossilis could hear. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=404 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=404 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 What is the detailed atomic interaction of water with the lipid membrane and what affect do different types of lipids have on that interaction https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=405 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=405 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 Call for applications for the LANSCE School on neutron scattering that will take place February 18-27, 2015. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=406 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=406 Wed, 29 Oct 2014 This first discussion forum of European User Offices was held on November 3-4 at the ALBA Synchrotron as an opportunity to share experiences. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=407 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=407 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 South of the Maier-Leibnitz Laboratory a hall in wood construction is currently being built. From next year on, it will house the mock-up for the cooling systems of the ultracold neutron source at FRM II. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=408 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=408 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 LANSCE: Call for Proposals for experiments for the Proton Radiography Facility pRad for the period October 1, 2015 September 30, 2016. The deadline is February 6. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=410 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=410 Wed, 19 Nov 2014 The Director of the Laboratoire Lon Brillouin is the new Chairman of the European Neutron Scattering Association. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=409 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=409 Fri, 21 Nov 2014 NMI3 collaboration has taken a significant step in the production of biological membranes. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=412 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=412 Mon, 01 Dec 2014 The ISIS Neutron Training course will be running on 16 to 25 of June 2015. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=411 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=411 Wed, 03 Dec 2014 Measurements using positrons could help to develop better coatings for drugs. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=414 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=414 Wed, 03 Dec 2014 With Neutrons4Science you can conduct a TAS experiment, create magnons and more. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=413 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=413 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 Neutron radiography of corks https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=415 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=415 Wed, 10 Dec 2014 Dr. Matthias Rossbach and his team designed and constructed a new instrument for prompt and delayed fission neutron induced reaction Gamma spectrometry. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=419 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=419 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 Measurements at the three axes spectrometer PUMA at MLZ have now been published in the renowned journal Nature Communications. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=420 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=420 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 Researchers have used the new IMAGINE instrument at HFIR to map an enzyme that could play an important role in anti-cancer drug development. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=422 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=422 Wed, 07 Jan 2015 ISSE, its website and the first technical school on sample environment. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=418 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=418 Thu, 08 Jan 2015 ECNS will be held from August 30 to September 4, 2015 in Zaragoza, Spain. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=421 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=421 Thu, 08 Jan 2015 Online registration for the AOCNS-2015 is now open. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=417 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=417 Mon, 12 Jan 2015 ANSTO is calling for proposals at the OPAL Neutron Beam Facility both cold- and thermal-neutron instruments and National Deuteration Facility. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=423 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=423 Tue, 13 Jan 2015 Application is now open for the XIII School of Neutron Scattering SoNS Francesco Paolo Ricci. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=424 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=424 Thu, 15 Jan 2015 SAS2015 and IUCr call for nominees for the Guinier Prize. The deadline is April 30. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=425 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=425 Mon, 19 Jan 2015 Scientists suggest a new method to transform power plant ash into materials that could be used for nuclear waste treatment or soil remediation. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=427 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=427 Mon, 19 Jan 2015 Scientists combine three different methods to better understand and predict the behaviour of materials in rails. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=428 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=428 Mon, 19 Jan 2015 Call for applications to host a forthcoming International Small-Angle Scattering Conference in 2021. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=426 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=426 Mon, 19 Jan 2015 Version 3.3 is one of the largest releases of changes and improvements so far. You can take a look at the release notes and download Mantid. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=429 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=429 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 Learn about neutron techniques from June 13 to 22 in Italy and France. Deadline for applications is April 10. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=430 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=430 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 Four Mantid courses available at ISIS, RAL. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=432 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=432 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 For the first time in hybrid vesicles, scientists obtained evidence for phase separation at the nanoscale, leading to the formation of stable nanodomains enriched either in lipid or polymer. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=433 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=433 Tue, 27 Jan 2015 The registration for the Masters program MaMaSELF for the years 2015-2017 runs until 31 January non-European, 27 February European students and 30 April 2015 without scholarship. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=434 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=434 Tue, 27 Jan 2015 A group of scientists from Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom applied an innovative approach to study Egyptian copper alloy figurines. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=436 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=436 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 Do you want your non-scientist friends to understand what research with neutrons and muons is about New popular brochure from the Paul Scherrer Institute now available in English, German and French by science writer Martyn Bull. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=233 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=233 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 Hsin-Yin Chiang of MLZ has explored the development of a new fuel with lower enrichment. Uranium-molybdenum UMo embedded in an aluminum matrix is a promising candidate. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=437 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=437 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 A one-week Summer School on Methods and Applications of Neutron Spectroscopy will be held from June 8 - June 12 at the NIST Center for Neutron Research. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=438 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=438 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 BornAgain is a free and open-source software package to simulate and fit small-angle scattering at grazing-incidence. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=439 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=439 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 Greg Rickford, Canadas Minister of Natural Resources, announced the Government of Canadas decision to support the extension of the operations of the NRU reactor from October 31, 2016, until March 31, 2018. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=443 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=443 Fri, 06 Feb 2015 Learn about Spectroscopy with Neutrons, Muons and Photons on the Swiss alps. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=440 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=440 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 At MLZ several groups work on battery research to gain a better understanding of how batteries work by various neutron methods. Two new papers were published recently. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=441 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=441 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 The Louisiana Consortium for Neutron Scattering is a multi-million dollar statewide collaborative research initiative that will expand the fundamental understanding of advanced materials. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=445 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=445 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 The highly prestigious Walter Hlg Prize is the most visible activity of ENSA in the scientific community. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=442 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=442 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 New concept to achieve ultimate transparency reaches 90 transmittance. This innovative method should drive the development of new highly transparent materials with technologically relevant applications. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=444 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=444 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 Representatives of major European Innovation and Technology Campuses met in Athens for the second IAB meeting Networking of Industrial Liaison Offices organised by NMI3 and CALIPSO. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=446 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=446 Wed, 18 Feb 2015 Maintenance work has been successfully concluded the High-Field Magnet has successfully attained 26 tesla in initial testing. New scientific experiments have become possible. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=447 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=447 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 A new study carried out at the Institut Laue-Langevin in collaboration with researchers at the Lyons-University based Hospices Civils de Lyon has determined the most accurate microstructure ever obtained of human enamel. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=448 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=448 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 Forschungszentrum Jlich receives around 4 million from the EU to develop a more efficient detector system for research with neutrons. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=451 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=451 Wed, 25 Feb 2015 The scientists were able to detect structural changes using a model system of phospholipids from soy plants with the help of neutron scattering techniques at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum in Garching near Munich. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=449 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=449 Fri, 27 Feb 2015 A novel non-destructive method using short-wavelength characteristic X-ray diffraction meter with the X-ray tube of tungsten anode target to determine the RS within the materials is developed in China. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=452 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=452 Sat, 28 Feb 2015 Researchers successfully shown that boron-coated vitreous carbon foam can be used in the detection of neutrons emitted by radioactive materials of critical importance to homeland security. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=450 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=450 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 PA20, the new SANS machine of the LLB, delivered its first SANS spectra on 6 march 2015. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=453 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=453 Sun, 08 Mar 2015 Researchers used additive manufacturing and neutron imaging to examine microchannel heat exchangers, which hold refrigerants used to move thermal energy and provide cooling or heating in many applications. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=458 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=458 Tue, 10 Mar 2015 Small-angle neutron scattering enabled researchers to look inside intact leaves to learn how their structure and functions change when submitted to environmental changes. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=454 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=454 Wed, 11 Mar 2015 IKON8 at ISIS. This meeting brought a capacity crowd to the UK venue where an important exchange of new ESS neutron technologies came face to face with the lessons learned at ISIS during its five-year upgrade of Target Station 2. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=455 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=455 Wed, 11 Mar 2015 Researchers are working on an interdisciplinary collaboration between physicists and dentists to develop a material comprised of glass ionomer cement. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=456 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=456 Fri, 13 Mar 2015 With the casting of the first 10-meter section of the accelerator tunnel walls in the last week of January, the European Spallation Source began to go vertical. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=457 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=457 Fri, 13 Mar 2015 Part of an integrated SANS instrument suite at ESS, SKADI analyses materials structures at the largest scales possible with neutron diffraction. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=462 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=462 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 We describe a new regime in dense polymer solutions, typically above 1molL, where q is proportional to the concentration c of the solution. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=459 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=459 Fri, 20 Mar 2015 The bicameral decision formalizes Switzerlands accession to ESS and extends the Swiss financial commitment through 2026. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=461 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=461 Fri, 20 Mar 2015 Scientists conducted an experiment with the instrument SPODI at MLZ to determine the structure of shape memory alloys of nickel-manganese-indium. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=460 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=460 Thu, 26 Mar 2015 The Canadian Neutron Beam Centre invites user proposals for neutron beam time on its six beamlines. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=463 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=463 Thu, 26 Mar 2015 ISIS pulsed neutron and muon source is now back in action after considerable upgrades over the last six months. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=464 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=464 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 ECA and ENSA announce the call for the Erwin Felix Lewy Bertaut Prize in his honour, and in memory of his scientific achievements and cornerstones in crystallography and neutron scattering. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=465 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=465 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 On April 1st ANSTOs new EMU backscattering spectrometer recorded its first spectrum, in this case from a polyvinyl chloride standard. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=485 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=485 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 Thanks to NMI3 support, for the first time researchers create artificial methane hydrates in just a few minutes. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=466 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=466 Thu, 02 Apr 2015 The Rosen Scholar is a fellowship created to honor the memory of Louis Rosen, his accomplishments, hard work, and affection for the broad range of science performed at LANSCE. Dr. Edwin Fohtung is the current LANSCE Professor in conjunction with the Department of Physics at New Mexico State University. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=468 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=468 Fri, 03 Apr 2015 The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center LANSCE is issuing a Call for Proposals for the WNR facility for run cycle September December, 2015. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=467 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=467 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 The Swiss spallation neutron source SINQ is calling for proposals for the beam time period II15 between 01092015 and 23122015. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=469 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=469 Mon, 13 Apr 2015 Spain collaborates closely with the ESS. In November 2014, ESS-Bilbao was chosen as the in-kind partner for the ESS target system. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=472 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=472 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 NMI3 collaboration works on simulations to find the best possible guide for experiments at low temperatures and high magnetic fields. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=471 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=471 Mon, 27 Apr 2015 At the end of March, Prof. Dieter Richter of the Research Centre Jlich not only retires, but also passes his position as MLZ Director to Prof. Thomas Brckel. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=473 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=473 Mon, 27 Apr 2015 Watch a YouTube recording of a talk by Gerry Lander at the ILL telling the story of the discovery of the neutron in 1932, and then that of fission in 1939 through the lives of Chadwick and Meitner and world events. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmPPt0zbNEw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmPPt0zbNEw Wed, 29 Apr 2015 The first edition of the International Interdisciplinary Event Science for Life 2015 will be held from 20th to 25th of May 2015 in Lampedusa, a fascinating Sicilian island. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=470 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=470 Wed, 29 Apr 2015 You can receive support to learn about Application of Neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation in Engineering Materials Science on September 21-25 near Hamburg. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=474 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=474 Wed, 29 Apr 2015 The film recounts the struggle and the long road to bring the ESS to Scandinavia and the great potential in the future research. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=475 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=475 Wed, 29 Apr 2015 The first external user of the FRM II was Klaus Habicht of the Helmholtz Centre Berlin, who carried out experiments on the instrument TRISP on May 4, 2005. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=477 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=477 Mon, 04 May 2015 Scientists find that Hfq forms a nucleoprotein complex, changes the mechanical properties of the double helix and compacts DNA into a condensed form. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=476 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=476 Tue, 05 May 2015 A new computational tool for carrying out spin wave calculations is available for download. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=478 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=478 Wed, 06 May 2015 A letter asking for support alerts to the risk that the neutron source LLB-Orphe will have to shut down earlier than planned, which will impact its users research programmes. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=479 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=479 Wed, 06 May 2015 The first fully functional Low-Level Radio Frequency control system for the ESS Accelerator has been installed and integrated into the EPICS control system at the FREIA Laboratory at Uppsala University. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=483 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=483 Wed, 06 May 2015 A new neutron project that will start in October 2015 and last for four years has recently been accepted for funding under the European Commission HORIZON 2020 framework. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=480 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=480 Mon, 11 May 2015 You are invited to apply for time on the neutron beam instruments at the NIST Center for Neutron Research NCNR. The deadline for all proposals is Tuesday, June 16, 2015. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=482 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=482 Mon, 11 May 2015 The Budapest Neutron Centre invites you to submit applications for beam time at the Budapest Research Reactor. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=481 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=481 Tue, 12 May 2015 The Mantid project introduced a wide variety of improvements in this release including: a collection of improvements to multi dimensional and normal plotting, new experimental planning interfaces. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=484 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=484 Tue, 19 May 2015 The first European Spallation Source ESS pulse signature measurement was made last month on the ESS test beamline at HZB in Germany. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=486 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=486 Wed, 20 May 2015 McStas 2.2 has been released and is ready for download. Read more to learn about important highlights from the release. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=487 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=487 Wed, 27 May 2015 A single-shot observation of dynamic processes across multiple length and time scales will give unprecedented insight into previously unobservable phenomena. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=489 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=489 Thu, 28 May 2015 Announcement of cancellation of the call for J-PARC MLF 2015B General Use Proposals. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=488 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=488 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 Rush describes the efforts over the past 50 years to develop neutron research facilities in the US, discusses the reasons for the current state of affairs, and makes suggestions to prevent similar consequences in the future. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=344 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=344 Mon, 08 Jun 2015 For the first time, one of ANSTOs high-temperature vacuum furnaces has been used successfully on the Pelican cold-neutron time-of-flight spectrometer. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=503 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=503 Tue, 09 Jun 2015 The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency has given approval for ANSTO to commence user operations on the Sika cold-neutron 3-axis spectrometer. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=502 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=502 Fri, 12 Jun 2015 The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center LANSCE is issuing a Call for Proposals for experiments to be run at the Lujan Centers moderated neutron source. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=490 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=490 Tue, 16 Jun 2015 The ESS peer-review instrument selection process nears conclusion as four new instrument proposals are recommended for inclusion within the facilitys construction budget of 16 instruments. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=491 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=491 Tue, 16 Jun 2015 Great progress made in the commissioning of the new Bilby time-of-flight small-angle scattering instrument in ANSTO. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=499 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=499 Tue, 16 Jun 2015 ANSTO research may help preserve some of the worlds most important historic artefacts and buildings. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=492 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=492 Fri, 19 Jun 2015 From pipes to power station turbines and railway lines, ensuring that engineering components perform under pressure can save lives. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=493 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=493 Wed, 24 Jun 2015 Prof. Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Director General at CERN since 2009, took some time to speak with ESS about the two facilities. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=495 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=495 Thu, 25 Jun 2015 In April, tests were conducted at J-PARC that have preliminarily validated the physics behind the innovative ESS flat moderator. This design is expected to increase neutron brightness at ESS for some instruments by up to a factor of three. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=496 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=496 Wed, 01 Jul 2015 Neutron measurements reveal key dynamic properties of magnetic structure in unique experimental study. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=497 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=497 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 HZB team decodes relationship between magnetic interactions and the distortions in crystal structure within a geometrically frustrated spinel system https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=505 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=505 Mon, 06 Jul 2015 The ageing of the foams could be stopped to make them stable indefinitely, or until they were heated above the melting temperature of the crystals. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=504 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=504 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 The workshop was a great opportunity to share expectations, experiences, and give examples of work conducted in several European research infrastructures. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=494 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=494 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 The Advanced Methods and Techniques JRA has developed a new type of RFSF to enhance NRSE spectrometers. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=506 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=506 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 Alan Tennant has been appointed director of the Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences at the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=507 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=507 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 The NMI3 Imaging JRA discusses how to produce smaller beams. They conclude that reflective optics offers the most versatile way to produce them. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=508 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=508 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 Groundbreaking work at two Department of Energy national laboratories has confirmed plutoniums magnetism, which scientists have long theorized but have never been able to experimentally observe. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=500 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=500 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 An increasing number of scholarly publishers and journals are converting to open access. In fields relevant to neutron science and technology, the journals listed are available in full open access. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=77 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=77 Mon, 13 Jul 2015 For the first time, ANSTOs Dingo neutron radiographyimagingtomography station has taken some neutron topography data, from the germanium 335 monochromator used on Wombat. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=501 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=501 Mon, 13 Jul 2015 The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center LANSCE is issuing a Call for Proposals for experiments to be run at the Lujan Centers moderated neutron source during Fiscal Year 2016. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=509 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=509 Mon, 13 Jul 2015 Proposals at the OPAL Neutron Beam Facility both cold- and thermal-neutron instruments and National Deuteration Facility are now open. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=510 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=510 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 The 2015 Walter Hlg Prize has been awarded to Prof Dr Helmut Rauch for his outstanding and seminal contributions to the fundamental aspects of neutron physics and optics and many related aspects of quantum physics. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=511 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=511 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 The Canadian Neutron Beam Centre invites user proposals for neutron beam time on its six beamlines. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=512 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=512 Tue, 21 Jul 2015 A new project will start in October 2015 and last for four years. It has recently been accepted for funding under the European Commission HORIZON 2020 framework. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=513 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=513 Wed, 29 Jul 2015 The Grant Agreement for SINE2020 has now been signed by the European Commission. The project will start this year on October 1 and will last four years. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=514 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=514 Mon, 03 Aug 2015 The brochure highlights the importance of neutron scattering, illustrated by several examples. Get a free copy at the NMI3 stand at ECNS https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=515 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=515 Mon, 03 Aug 2015 The ILL has just published a brochure on how experiments with neutrons are enabling responsible and sustainable power generation, storage and use. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=516 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=516 Tue, 04 Aug 2015 The American Crystallographic Association has selected retired Laboratory Senior Fellow Benno Schoenborn, formerly of Bioenergy and Biome Sciences Los Alamos Neutron Scattering Center, B-11, to receive the 2016 Bau Neutron Diffraction Award. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=517 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=517 Wed, 12 Aug 2015 Swiss-Danish team to build a pioneering crystal analyser spectrometer optimised to study dynamics in quantum materials and matter under extreme conditions. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=520 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=520 Wed, 12 Aug 2015 Neutron scattering provides insight into the structure of magnetic nanoparticles and dynamic behaviour of encapsulated cancer drugs. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=521 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=521 Fri, 14 Aug 2015 New Study shows Correlation between Microscopic Structures and Macroscopic Properties. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=522 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=522 Fri, 14 Aug 2015 In combination with other methods of investigation, scientists have recently achieved amazing results with the instrument BIODIFF at MLZ. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=523 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=523 Fri, 14 Aug 2015 The version 3.3 of the simulation package VITESS has been released. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=518 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=518 Mon, 17 Aug 2015 At 19th of August the EC in Brussels formally adopted its decision to establish the European Spallation Source as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium, or ERIC. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=519 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=519 Thu, 20 Aug 2015 Application of neutron beams for automative applications at the Canadian Neutron Beam Centre. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=524 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=524 Wed, 26 Aug 2015 Seen from outside Manganese silicon shows no magnetism, inside it looks different. By neutron scattering TU scientists have now proven the excitations of its magnetic helix. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=526 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=526 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 The first successful user experiment at ESS demonstrates the importance of neutrons to the life sciences, and shows the way forward for ESS as a user facility. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=525 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=525 Mon, 31 Aug 2015 New cooperation project headed by JCNS shall promote EU-Russia cooperation in the planning, construction and scientific use of large scale facilities. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=527 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=527 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 Scientists have discovered skyrmions in the very material class they were originally predicted. These strange quasiparticles can be controlled with electrical fields, which can be used in futuristic memory storage. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=532 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=532 Mon, 07 Sep 2015 NMI3 was at the European Conference on Neutron Scattering 2015. Get to know about announcements by ENSA and the highlights of this great conference. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=530 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=530 Thu, 10 Sep 2015 The deadline for neutron beam time request to perform neutron scattering experiments at the Laboratoire Leon Brillouin in France is October 1st. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=531 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=531 Thu, 10 Sep 2015 The first concrete ceremony was held September 11 on the construction site of the multi-purpose research fast neutron reactor in Russia. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=534 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=534 Fri, 11 Sep 2015 The school will be on Feb 25 - March 4 at the HZB. The deadline for registrations is Oct 15. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=529 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=529 Wed, 16 Sep 2015 You can now find information on the Hellenic Neutron Association from Greece on a dedicated page on our website. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=533 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=533 Mon, 21 Sep 2015 The neutron school FAN du LLB 2015 will be on December 7-10 in France. The deadline for registration is October 18. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=535 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=535 Tue, 22 Sep 2015 The ESS Data Management and Software Centre is an integrated part of the design and construction of the ESS instrument suite and a key driver in the development of the facilitys user program. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=536 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=536 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 Researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have developed a coating technique in the laboratory conditions that could raise the efficiency of fuel cells. The PSI scientists have already applied to patent the technique, which is suitable for mass production. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=537 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=537 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 It is time for a summary of the achievements of this JRA, which aims to provide a wider range of experimental tools to make the best use of neutron scattering for soft and bio-materials. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=538 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=538 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 The Budapest Neutron Centre is calling for proposals for scientists to use their neutron instruments. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=539 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=539 Mon, 28 Sep 2015 The journal Metals is calling for papers. The deadline for manuscript submissions is 30 November 2015. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=540 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=540 Tue, 29 Sep 2015 You can submit your proposal for beam time at the IBR-2 high flux pulsed reactor until October 15. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=541 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=541 Tue, 29 Sep 2015 Our universe consists of significantly more matter than existing theories are able to explain. One way to clarify this discrepancy is via the neutrons so-called electric dipole moment. In an international collaboration, researchers at PSI have now devised a new method which will help determine this dipole moment more accurately than ever before. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=542 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=542 Fri, 02 Oct 2015 Neutron scattering as an essential tool for science has addressed some of societys grand challenges but its future is not assured, said Prof Christiane Alba-Simionesco, Director of LLB and Chair of ENSA. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=543 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=543 Fri, 02 Oct 2015 The ISIS neutron and muon sources in the UK are calling for proposals. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=544 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=544 Mon, 05 Oct 2015 ORNL is calling for proposals with deadline October 14. There is updated information for the Quantum Condensed Matter instruments at the HFIR. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=545 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=545 Mon, 05 Oct 2015 The version 3.5 of Mantid includes significant improvements. Furthermore the new Mantid Forum will provide a centre for support and conversation across the Mantid community. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=546 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=546 Tue, 06 Oct 2015 There is a new article on our History section. You can now learn about the birth of time-of-flight neutron powder diffraction at pulsed sources by Izabela M. Sosnowska. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=344 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=344 Wed, 07 Oct 2015 Spoke Cavity Prototypes Exceed Expectations. An important test result was achieved this summer at the accelerator lab of the French Institute of Nuclear Physics, IPN-Orsay. The finding is important to linac development worldwide, but of particular importance to the ESS Accelerator currently under civil construction in Sweden and in technical development across Europe. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=547 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=547 Wed, 07 Oct 2015 Nominations for Rosen Scholar candidates are to be sponsored by at least one of LANSCEs Facilities. The deadline is December 4. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=548 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=548 Thu, 08 Oct 2015 The PSI spallation neutron source is accepting beam time requests with deadline on November 15. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=549 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=549 Thu, 08 Oct 2015 STFC and Diamond Light Source are offering 36 positions to post-doctoral researchers over the next five years as part of the brand new Rutherford International Fellowship Programme. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=550 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=550 Mon, 12 Oct 2015 The joint Nordic programme for neutron research is being established to address the need for competence-building in this field, as identified by research funding agencies in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=68 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=68 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 Agneta Nestenborg assumed leadership of the ESS Project Support Administration Directorate on September 1. The transition marked the completion of former director Matti Tiirakaris distinguished five-year secondment from CERN. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=551 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=551 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 Researchers have found a much easier and more accurate way of investigating the often decisive lateral deflection of molecules. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=552 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=552 Tue, 20 Oct 2015 Instrument teams and in-kind partners from around Europe came together in Lund with developers of neutron technologies, science support systems, and data management and software for the ESS 9th In-Kind Collaboration Meeting for Neutron Scattering Systems. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=553 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=553 Wed, 21 Oct 2015 Weve got a new link on our Educational Resources. You can access the e-learning platform VNF and simulate neutron scattering experiments. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=233 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=233 Thu, 22 Oct 2015 An international workshop with more than 30 researchers was organized by the Jlich Centre for Neutron Science on Nov 27-28 to discuss current and future options for compact accelerator driven high brilliance neutron sources to serve the scientific community. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=555 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=555 Tue, 03 Nov 2015 It was very useful to meet at the NMI3 final General Assembly and the SINE2020 kick-off meeting to discuss future work and outcomes of the last 4 years https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=554 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=554 Tue, 03 Nov 2015 The Director for Accelerators and Technology at CERN spent a recent visit to the European Spallation Source getting up to speed on the swiftly advancing project and reinforcing the high-level coordination between the directors of the two leading accelerator projects in Europe. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=559 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=559 Thu, 12 Nov 2015 BrightnESS Begins. More than 70 representatives from the 18 participating institutions came together at the European Spallation Source on September 25 for the BrightnESS Kick-Off Meeting, which formally launched the EU-funded project. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=560 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=560 Thu, 12 Nov 2015 Magnetism. Over the last 60 years neutron scattering has provided the breakthroughs necessary to understand the atomic-level ordering of magnetic materials. The latest discovery of these hidden orders has recently been published in the journal Science and suggests the potential for neutron scattering to reveal much more. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=561 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=561 Thu, 12 Nov 2015 BrightnESS is a European Union-funded project within the European Commissions Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme designed to ensure that key challenges are met in order to build an ESS that can deliver high-impact scientific and technological knowledge. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=68 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=68 Thu, 12 Nov 2015 The new detection system is characterized by a dead-time constant of 25ns and a count rate as high as 5MHz at 10 dead-time. Compared to the old detector, this means an improvement of factor 25. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=562 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=562 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 Neutron Scattering on Nano-Structured Soft Matter: Synthetic- and Bio-Materials has been the focus of this years JCNS Workshop, held from 5 -8 October at the Evangelische Akademie Tutzing on Lake Starnberg. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=563 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=563 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 A guide prepared at the ILL gives an overview of Open Access publishing and rules for EU projects. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=564 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=564 Mon, 16 Nov 2015 New forensic techniques to help with the positive identification of unknown victims based on their burned skeletal remains are being developed by bone experts working beside neutron scientists. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=565 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=565 Mon, 16 Nov 2015 New educational material In a podcast Physics World news editor Michael Banks travels to ISIS to find out how scientists are using neutrons in their research and how the lab is looking to attract more users from industry. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=233 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=233 Mon, 16 Nov 2015 A key issue with lithium ion batteries is aging. It significantly reduces their potential storage capacity. To date, very little is known about the causes of the aging effects. Scientists now came a step closer to identifying the causes in their latest experiments. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=566 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=566 Thu, 19 Nov 2015 Given that NMI3-II will finish soon it was time to take stock of the work developed over the last four years. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=567 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=567 Mon, 30 Nov 2015 SAC and TAC recommendations advance the ESS along the critical path to completion, and the ERIC Council gets rolling with the election of Prof. Caterina Petrillo as vice chair and approval of the instrument suite. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=568 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=568 Mon, 30 Nov 2015 The deadline for nominations of the Prizes Clifford G. Shull, NSSA Sustained Research, NSSA Science, NSSA Student, and NSSA Fellows is December 8. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=569 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=569 Wed, 02 Dec 2015 The Institute of Physics and the German Physical Society have jointly awarded the Max Born Prize to Christian Pfleiderer of TUMs Physik-Department. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=570 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=570 Wed, 02 Dec 2015 Hidden Damascus patterns in the steel used to make ancient Indo-Persian swords and daggers are being uncovered by collaborators from Londons Wallace Collection and CNR, Italy, during neutron diffraction experiments at ISIS. This work gives insight into the quality of the blades as well as helping curators identify Damascus steel. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=571 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=571 Wed, 02 Dec 2015 The deadline for applying for funding for Neutron or Muon Introductory Schools is January 24. The schools will be supported by the SINE2020 project. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=572 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=572 Wed, 02 Dec 2015 Learn about the benefits of this collaboration between the major neutron and muon facilities in Europe as well as the feedback of the European Commission, by the NMI3 Manager and Coordinator, scientists, and school organisers. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=573 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=573 Mon, 07 Dec 2015 Research with neutrons has long delivered new and more environmentally responsible solutions for our planet. As part of its core framework, the European Spallation Source and its partners are working to realise sustainability goals for construction and operations. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=574 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=574 Mon, 07 Dec 2015 The Seventh Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting will take place at WISTA, Berlin-Adlershof on December 9th and 10th, the neutrons session are at Berlin-Wannsee on December 11th. The Verein Freundeskreis Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin e.V. will bestow the Innovation Award and the Ernst-Eckart-Koch Prize. Public highlights are a science slam on Wednesday, 18:30 and the public lecture by David Cahen on the power of science to bridge ideological differences. The public lecture and the science slam are open for everybody. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=575 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=575 Mon, 07 Dec 2015 As one of the highest priority research infrastructure projects in Europe, ESS was visited today by the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas. He was joined at the construction site by the Swedish Minister for Higher Education and Research, Helene Hellmark Knutsson. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=576 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=576 Mon, 07 Dec 2015 On 24 November 2015 the G7 Non Proliferation Directors Group visited the Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz FRM II and the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Centre for Neutron Research MLZ. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=577 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=577 Mon, 07 Dec 2015 The location of the XVIII Conference on Small-angle Scattering in 2021 was not decided yet. The SAS Commission of the IUC has thus decided to extend the submission deadline to 1 February 2016. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=578 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=578 Wed, 09 Dec 2015 Would you like to know where to submit your next proposal for neutron scattering experiments and when the neutron sources are running Have a look at our diagram https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=73 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=73 Thu, 10 Dec 2015 A new update of SasView, version 3.1.2, has just been released. It is recommended that all users of SasView upgrade. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=579 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=579 Thu, 10 Dec 2015 t is time for a summary of the achievements of this JRA, which aims to develop two promising detector technologies to cope with the high cost and near unavailability of 3He. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=580 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=580 Fri, 11 Dec 2015 Prof. Mark Johnson has been appointed as the new UK Associate Director of the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, the world centre for neutron science, with effect from 1st October 2016. He will act as Head of the Science Division. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=581 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=581 Tue, 15 Dec 2015 Staudinger-Durrer Prize awarded to Prof. Dieter Richter. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=582 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=582 Tue, 15 Dec 2015 It is time for a summary of the achievements of this JRA. New methods now provide information on material and magnetic systems which are not accessible using any other experimental technique. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=583 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=583 Tue, 15 Dec 2015 The high-field magnet HFM project of Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin is close to completion. Proposals for HFMEXED, beamtime can now be requested. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=416 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=416 Fri, 18 Dec 2015 The UKs Science Technology Facilities Council signed an MoU with the European Spallation Source this month that establishes the worlds longest operating neutron spallation source as lead partner in building the ESS instruments FREIA and LoKI. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=584 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=584 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 Green Light for SREss. The project Spatial Research Excellence by ESS SREss has been granted European Union funding to build and establish part of the European Spallation Source research infrastructure in Lund. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=585 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=585 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 You are invited to apply for time on the neutron beam instruments at the NIST Center for Neutron Research NCNR. The deadline for all proposals is Tuesday, February 2, 2016. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=586 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=586 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 Students can immediately apply for the MaMaSELF Master program that starts in 2016. The deadline for non-EU students ends on January 31; EU students have time until February 28. All, that do not require scholarship, must apply before April 30. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=587 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=587 Thu, 07 Jan 2016 Although they dont currently have as much conductivity, solid-state electrolytes designed for lithium-ion batteries LIBs are emerging as a safer alternative to their more prevalentsometimes flammableliquid-electrolyte counterparts. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=588 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=588 Fri, 08 Jan 2016 Proposals at the OPAL Neutron Beam Facility both cold- and thermal-neutron instruments and National Deuteration Facility. Deadline 15 March 2016, for beam time between July and December 2016. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=589 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=589 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 The new vice-chair of the ESS Council is not new to neutrons. Her strong background in research, facility development, and within European-wide advisory bodies, places Caterina Petrillo at the centre of the neutron science community in Europe. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=590 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=590 Tue, 12 Jan 2016 Researchers investigated how cholesterol levels influence drug delivery. The results vary depending on the type of drug tested. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=591 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=591 Tue, 12 Jan 2016 In type II superconductors thin channels, flux tubes, are formed. The magnetic field is guided through these tubes while the rest of the material remains field-free and superconducting. In the metal niobium, the flux tubes bunch together into small islands that create complex patterns. Researchers were the first to conduct neutron experiments to study these structures in niobium and determine the distribution of the islands in detail. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=592 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=592 Thu, 14 Jan 2016 Deadline Step 1: February 5th, 2016 Deadline Step 2: March 1st, 2016 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=593 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=593 Fri, 15 Jan 2016 Learn all about SINE2020: world-class Science and Innovation with Neutrons in Europe in 2020. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=595 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=595 Wed, 20 Jan 2016 Proposals for beam time at Oak Ridge National Laboratorys High Flux Isotope Reactor HFIR and Spallation Neutron Source SNS will be accepted Wednesday, April 13, 2016. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=596 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=596 Wed, 20 Jan 2016 Researchers from the European Spallation Source and Denmark refine reflectometry concepts for fast kinetic studies of thin films and other advanced materials. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=597 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=597 Wed, 20 Jan 2016 Institute director and physicist from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Prof. Andreas Schreyer, is the new scientific director of the future-oriented centre ESS, starting in January. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=598 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=598 Thu, 21 Jan 2016 You are invited to apply for time on the neutron beam instruments at the NIST Center for Neutron Research NCNR. The deadline for all proposals is Tuesday, February 2, 2016. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=586 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=586 Mon, 25 Jan 2016 When a gas explosion occurs in a home, analyzing evidence and determining the chain of events leading up to the explosion can be critical to resolving a lawsuit. If the provider is found to be at fault, injured parties can be awarded hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=599 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=599 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 An NMI3 JRA has made significant progress in the production of biological membranes that can be used for structural and dynamic characterisations. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=600 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=600 Thu, 28 Jan 2016 Watch this new video where scientists explain us the steps taken before conducting a neutron experiment on biological samples. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=601 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=601 Fri, 05 Feb 2016 Stefan Janssen is Head of the User Office at Paul Scherrer Institute PSI. In an interview, he explains why the PSIs large research facilities are popular with researchers coming from other institutions, how he handles the many applications and how he supports users who come here to conduct experiments. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=602 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=602 Fri, 05 Feb 2016 The research reactor Munich FRM, known as the Atomic Egg, came into operation on 31 October 1957. The research neutron source Heinz Maier Leibnitz FRM II reached its first criticality on 2 March, 2004 and user operation began only one year later on 29 April, 2005. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=344 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=344 Mon, 08 Feb 2016 The first attempts to use boron-10 for neutron detection were made in the 1970s. Due to the high neutron flux expected at ESS and the economics of the helium-3 crisis, boron is experiencing a comeback. EU support through the BrightnESS project is delivering critical results for the development of such detectors at the European Spallation Source. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=603 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=603 Thu, 11 Feb 2016 In a new video you can learn of a new pressure cell that makes it easier to conduct SANS experiments at 500 MPa. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=604 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=604 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 This release contains the long awaited support to handle the differing Crystallography convention kf-ki and inelastic convention ki-kf for representing HKL and Q space data. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=605 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=605 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 Forschungszentrum Jlich has begun to develop a concept for cost-efficient neutron sources which could replace mid-sized facilities. The new sources will operate without using reactor-typical chain reactions. Even smaller facilities on a laboratory scale can be set up using the same principle. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=606 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=606 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 The ESS civil construction project broke ground nearly 18 months ago as one of the largest infrastructure projects in Europe. With the Accelerator tunnel nearing completion, and the complex foundation work for the Target Station well advanced, all eyes are focused on technical installations beginning this year. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=607 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=607 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 In the final and major stages of acceleration before contact with the Target, the proton beam energy of the ESS Accelerator will reach 2.0 GeV, making it the most powerful linear proton accelerator ever built. Frances national Atomic and Alternative Energies Commission, CEA, is guiding the design, production and testing of the superconducting radio-frequency elliptical cryomodules that make this possible. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=608 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=608 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 All neutron users are invited to submit abstracts for the German Neutron Scattering Conference 2016. The conference will take place in Kiel from Sept. 20 to 22, 2016. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=609 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=609 Mon, 22 Feb 2016 You are invited to submit an abstract to this conference, which will be on 18.-21. July 2016, Bad Reichenhall, Germany. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 March 2016. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=611 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=611 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 The CNBC is enhancing its neutron imaging capabilities to see inside concealed objects. Identifying unknown radioactive material reduced the cost of a long-term waste management liability for the Government of Canada and demonstrated new capabilities. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=612 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=612 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 The next deadline for beam time request on French neutron scattering instruments will be April 1st. Within this call, you may ask beam time on the LLB instruments installed at the Orphe reactor in Saclay, and also on 4 French CRG at the ILL D1B, D23, IN12 and IN22. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=616 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=616 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 The Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, kindly invites you to submit applications for beam time at the IBR-2 high flux pulsed reactor. The deadline is April 15, 2016. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=613 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=613 Fri, 04 Mar 2016 The Neutron Scattering Society of America is pleased to announce the 2016 recipients of its four major prizes: Dr. Charles F. Majkrzak, Prof. Pengcheng Dai, Dr. Yun Liu, and Dr. P. Douglas Godfrin. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=614 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=614 Mon, 07 Mar 2016 The combination of different neutron methods allowed measuring the complete spectrum of magnetic excitations. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=615 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=615 Mon, 07 Mar 2016 Neutron scattering textbook, exercises, and simulations of experiments are now available online and for free at e-neutrons.org. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=617 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=617 Fri, 11 Mar 2016 The SINE2020 and brightnESS projects organised a meeting of communications officers to strengthen collaboration. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=618 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=618 Tue, 15 Mar 2016 The Committee Research with Neutrons KFN will award the Wolfram-Prandl-Prize to young scientists with PhD at the DN2016 in September 2016. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=619 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=619 Wed, 16 Mar 2016 A team of scientists and technicians designed a more efficient stopped-flow observation head that can make SANS experiments easier and more efficient to conduct. Watch our new video to know all about it https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=620 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=620 Thu, 17 Mar 2016 Learn how the SINE2020 Industry WP will help create an innovation-friendly environment around European neutron sources to tackle societal challenges by coupling research and innovation. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=621 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=621 Thu, 17 Mar 2016 SINE2020 offers consultation and free neutron scattering measurements to industry. Strengthen your RD potential with us by submitting your proposal by June 30. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=622 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=622 Wed, 23 Mar 2016 Eight neutron and muon introductory schools will be financially supported by SINE2020. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=623 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=623 Wed, 23 Mar 2016 The internal movements of proteins can be important for their functionality. With the aid of neutron spectroscopy, scientists detected dynamic processes in so-called LOV photoreceptors. The results highlight the immense potential of neutron scattering experiments for the analysis of cellular processes. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=624 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=624 Thu, 24 Mar 2016 The first component has been successfully installed in the Accelerator tunnel at the ESS Construction site this month. The occasion marks an important step toward ESS project goals and ultimate delivery to its European partners and the scientific community. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=625 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=625 Wed, 30 Mar 2016 McStas 2.3 has been released and is ready for download. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=627 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=627 Fri, 15 Apr 2016 The NSSA is pleased to announce the selection of the following 2016 NSSA Fellows: John Copley, Michael Crawford, Pengcheng Dai, Jaime Fernandez-Baca, Brent Fultz, Aaron Krawitz, Ramanan Krishnamoorti, Timothy Lodge, Jaroslaw Majewski, John Root, and Stephen White. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=626 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=626 Fri, 15 Apr 2016 The next deadline for the submission of beam time requests for the Swiss spallation neutron source SINQ is May 20. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=628 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=628 Mon, 18 Apr 2016 New link on our educational material pages. Melvyn Bragg from BBC and guests discuss the neutron, one of the particles found in an atoms nucleus. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=233 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=233 Tue, 19 Apr 2016 The semi-annual IKON meeting has become the forum for ESS and its in-kind partners to make a clear assessment of instrument construction progress. The focus of Februarys meeting was less on the activities of individual instrument teams than the multidisciplinary collaboration as a whole. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=629 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=629 Wed, 20 Apr 2016 Spin ice is an unusual magnetic material in which the combination of strong local Ising anisotropy and ferromagnetic interactions imposes a local constraint to the magnetic moments, the ice-rule. We have observed magnetic fragmentation in a recently discovered material, the spin ice candidate Nd2Zr2O7, by means of neutron scattering measurements. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=630 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=630 Wed, 20 Apr 2016 Researchers at the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutrons to uncover novel behavior in materials that holds promise for quantum computing. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=631 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=631 Fri, 22 Apr 2016 Prof. Helmut Schober has been appointed, with effect from 1st October 2016, as the new Director of the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, the worlds flagship centre for neutron science. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=632 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=632 Mon, 25 Apr 2016 A publication in the journal Johnson Matthey Technology Review explains how and why neutron scattering may be a useful technique to investigate catalysis. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=633 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=633 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 Neutron scattering at ANSTO has contributed to building evidence for the existence of a highly exotic and elusive state of matter, known as a magnetic spin nematic phase in a natural mineral called linarite. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=634 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=634 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 Results show that one can examine details of the operation of fuel cells with neutron scattering and thus promote the optimisation of the individual components of the fuel cell for a longer life and better efficiency. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=635 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=635 Sat, 30 Apr 2016 Addressing one of the last remaining concerns in the civil nuclear fuel cycle. Europes High Performance Research Reactors have teamed up in a common initiative, HERACLES, to support the world-wide non-proliferation efforts by minimizing their usage of HEU material. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=68 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=68 Mon, 02 May 2016 Scientists have examined a method to preserve artifacts more closely by Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis to find the optimal conditions for preservation. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=636 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=636 Mon, 02 May 2016 Chain behavior has been determined in polymer nanocomposites comprised of well-dispersed 12nm diameter silica nanoparticles in polymethyl methacrylate PMMA matrices by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering measurements under the Zero Average Contrast condition. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=637 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=637 Tue, 03 May 2016 Scientists have designed a novel catalyst that overcomes the challenge of breaking down complex plant components to produce some of the highest yields of biofuel. The results bring us one step closer to lessening our dependence on fossil fuels, and are an important development in our shift towards renewable energy. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=638 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=638 Tue, 03 May 2016 Hydro-Qubec is using stress data from the Canadian Neutron Beam Centre CNBC to improve electricity generation from hydroelectric dams. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=639 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=639 Fri, 06 May 2016 News on NRU shut-down, school, and call for proposals. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=640 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=640 Sun, 08 May 2016 This week sees a meeting on Future Applications of Small-Angle Neutron Scattering to Soft Matter, which will also celebrate Richards partial retirement. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=641 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=641 Thu, 12 May 2016 SpinWave is an easy-to-use and versatile software to calculate spin waves in any abitrary magnetic lattice. It is now freely available. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=642 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=642 Thu, 12 May 2016 Scientists have used neutron crystallography to determine the structures of HIV-1 proteasedrug complexes, providing key details of hydrogen-bonding interactions in the active-site and revealing a pH-induced proton hopping mechanism that guides HIV-1 protease activity. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=643 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=643 Thu, 12 May 2016 A prominent figure in European research facilities, John Womersley will take over the high-profile project at an important time. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=644 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=644 Sat, 14 May 2016 An international research team has discovered the mechanism by which a pharmaceutical excipient from the class of block copolymers improves the solubility of large quantities of a poorly water-soluble active substance. The results form the basis for the development of a drug delivery system better tolerated by the human body. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=645 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=645 Sat, 14 May 2016 In our history pages you can now find a summary of characteristic scientific and applied results which were obtained with use of the Swiss instruments for neutron scattering in the 20th century. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=344 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=344 Wed, 18 May 2016 The magnetic properties of thin film systems with superconducting and ferromagnetic states and an isolating layer in between were never studied before. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=646 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=646 Wed, 18 May 2016 J-PARC Center and CROSS-Tokai are pleased to announce that the 2016B General Use proposal round will be open from Tuesday 17 May 2016. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=647 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=647 Sun, 22 May 2016 Following research at CNBC, Nor-Mar Industries has received approval for, and successfully implemented changes to, welding protocols to deliver premium-quality products. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=648 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=648 Mon, 23 May 2016 The first BornAgain School and User Meeting, organized by the MLZ Scientific Computing Group, will take place on 21-22 November 2016 at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Zentrum Garching, Germany. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=649 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=649 Tue, 24 May 2016 Two research teams have studied the new class of iron-based superconductors at the MLZ and independently came to the same surprising result: the superconducting Cooper pairs change their symmetry. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=650 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=650 Tue, 24 May 2016 Neutron computer tomography on the Dingo instrument has produced three dimensional video of ron meteorites. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=651 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=651 Tue, 24 May 2016 Projection foresees major instantaneous reduction in neutron instruments available to Europes scientists once ILL shuts down. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=652 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=652 Fri, 27 May 2016 Research published in Nature combining neutron scattering with other techniques strengthens understanding of the delivery of cancer drugs. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=653 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=653 Sun, 29 May 2016 Neutron reflectometry experiments revealed the existence and extent of the interaction between A peptides and a lone customised biomimetic membrane, and their dependence on the aggregation state of the peptide. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=654 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=654 Tue, 31 May 2016 New scientific questions demand ever better experimental equipment. In this interview, PSI researcher Oksana Zaharko reports on the challenges of setting up a new instrument for research with neutrons. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=655 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=655 Thu, 02 Jun 2016 Samantha Zimnik was granted with the Laura Bassi price for her outstanding scientific achievements in the field of surface physics at the positron source NEPOMUC. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=656 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=656 Wed, 08 Jun 2016 Version 3.7 of Mantid contains several improvements to the advanced visualisation and the CLI for multidimensional data. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=657 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=657 Wed, 08 Jun 2016 On October 1 a new two-year project will begin to study the microscopic structure and dynamics of bulk metallic glasses. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=658 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=658 Thu, 04 Aug 2016 Fruitful discussions were held by 26 WP members who met at PSI in April to present the software programs the WP will focus on. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=659 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=659 Thu, 04 Aug 2016 Bruno Guerard from ILL told us the plan to develop a 3He based MicroStrip Gas Chamber MSGC neutron detector with a novel 2D readout. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=660 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=660 Thu, 04 Aug 2016 An easy-to-use and versatile software, _SpinWave_, to calculate spin waves in any arbitrary magnetic lattice, has been developed at the Laboratoire Lon Brillouin and is now freely available. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=661 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=661 Thu, 04 Aug 2016 Scientists at ESS and its partner institutions aim to realise detectors that can capture and record the high neutron rates delivered by the worlds most powerful neutron source. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=662 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=662 Thu, 04 Aug 2016 Scientists experimentally realized two-dimensional water by crafting the water molecules onto a hydrophilic surface with distances between the water molecules compatible with hydrogen bond formation. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=663 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=663 Thu, 04 Aug 2016 The combination of the neutron diffraction techniques and the software program Umweg at MLZ is a big step forward to improve neutron studies on many highlighting materials, in order to answer the often difficult question of their real symmetry. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=664 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=664 Thu, 04 Aug 2016 ANSTO had a restructure. It is now the Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering National Deuteration Facility and the Bragg institute becomes a virtual institute. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=665 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=665 Sat, 06 Aug 2016 In an interview Hanna Wacklin tells about the SINE2020 collaboration activity on Chemical Deuteration, which she coordinates. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=666 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=666 Sat, 06 Aug 2016 The United Kingdom has joined the project as a full member following a unanimous decision by the ESS Council. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=667 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=667 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 Researchers use diffraction data from pulsed high-intensity neutrons to understand the reactions that deteriorate lithium batteries during operation. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=668 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=668 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 Thanks to SINE2020 support, 31 participants attended the Central European Training School in Budapest last May. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=669 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=669 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 Aircraft manufacturers sponsor researchers who are using stress data from the Canadian Neutron Beam Centre to evaluate methods of preventing distortion in thin aluminum parts. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=670 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=670 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 The first volume of the ESFRI Scripta series reproduces the concluding report presenting a thorough analysis of the European Landscape of Research Infrastructures devoted to Neutron Scattering and Spectroscopy, and its evolution in the next decades. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=671 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=671 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 A Chinese-German cooperation using the instrument PANDA at MLZ developed a concept for a cold three-axis spectrometer. Results are now published. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=672 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=672 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 CERIC-ERIC is launching its fifth call for proposals. There are interesting news in this call, new instruments added to the offer and an award for high quality publications and conference presentations. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=673 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=673 Sun, 14 Aug 2016 Inelastic neutron scattering experiments at ANSTO found a possible new quantum spin state in a novel antiferromagnetic material barium ytterbium zinc oxide which provides both a challenge and validation of the third law of thermodynamics. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=675 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=675 Fri, 19 Aug 2016 Financial and administrative staff from the H2020 BrightnESS and its SINE2020 projects met on June 27 and 28 in Lund to exchange best practices and tools on how to best implement and manage both research projects. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=676 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=676 Fri, 19 Aug 2016 On July 7, the 11th International Conference on Polarised Neutrons for Condensed Matter Investigations 2016 PNCMI 2016 in Freising ended. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=677 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=677 Fri, 19 Aug 2016 A novel and rare state of matter known as a quantum spin liquid has been empirically demonstrated in a monocrystal of the compound calcium-chromium oxide by team at HZB, which was previously thought impossible. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=678 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=678 Fri, 19 Aug 2016 Forschungszentrum Jlich releases two videos for science students and teachers. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=679 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=679 Sat, 20 Aug 2016 Using neutrons, scientists have revealed a possible cause of Alzheimers disease. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=680 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=680 Sat, 20 Aug 2016 Since July 20, the FRM II again delivers neutrons. In the break, employees have finished many tasks: They exchanged the beam plug, which will guide neutrons towards the neutron guide hall east for new instruments. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=681 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=681 Sat, 20 Aug 2016 Results show that reducing the inter-nanoparticles attractions gives rise to a much richer ensemble of nanoparticles self-assemblies, apparently with a smaller influence from kinetic traps or barriers. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=682 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=682 Sat, 20 Aug 2016 According to Wikipedia, a TAKIN is a goat-like mammal in Asia. Quite different at FRM II: here it is a new and extremely useful software that Tobias Weber, Robert Georgii and Prof. Peter Bni of the MIRA group developed specifically for working with three-axis spectrometers. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=683 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=683 Mon, 22 Aug 2016 Proposals are accepted for experiments at the OPAL Neutron Beam Facility both cold- and thermal-neutron instruments and National Deuteration Facility between January and June 2017. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=684 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=684 Mon, 22 Aug 2016 The Time-Of-Flight spectrometer NEAT at Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin is now in user operation with greatly increased flux and power after an extensive upgrade project. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=685 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=685 Mon, 22 Aug 2016 The deadline for Neutron Sciences Call for Proposals at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is October 5. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=674 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=674 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 You can apply for OpenAire funds to publish or reimburse your FP7 project papers in Open Access journals. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=686 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=686 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 The deuteron - just like the proton - is smaller than previously thought. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=687 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=687 Fri, 26 Aug 2016 Proposals are accepted for experiments at the neutron beam instruments at the NIST Center for Neutron Research NCNR. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=688 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=688 Fri, 26 Aug 2016 Nuclear techniques have allowed archaeologists to see into an embedded section of an ancient Australian Indigenous stone artefact non-invasivelysuggesting important information about its origin and use. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=689 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=689 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 More than 90 energy researchers from around the world now came to the conference Neutrons For Energy in Bad Reichenhall to discuss current results and questions from various areas of energy research with neutrons. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=690 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=690 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 Physics can also taste very sweet this is one of the things that the pupils from grade 3 of the elementary school Garching Ost learned during their visit at the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz. They made an atom model from toothpicks and marsh mallows and tried their abilities as neutron scatterers at a neutron ball toss. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=691 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=691 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF has given 13.5 million Euros to fund a number of projects at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum MLZ. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=692 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=692 Mon, 05 Sep 2016 Eddy Lelivre-Berna tells about the Sample Environment WP, which aims to improve the environment surrounding samples both on neutron and muon experiments, thus improving data statistics and opening new fields of science. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=693 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=693 Fri, 09 Sep 2016 Conclusive evidence of order by disorder is scarce in real materials. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=694 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=694 Fri, 09 Sep 2016 Experiments with neutrons reveal minimal corrosion of the top layer of a naturally occurring CO2 reservoir. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=695 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=695 Fri, 09 Sep 2016 Thanks to an ultramodern research method, scientists have successfully looked inside transformers and observed the magnetic domains at work in the interior of a transformers iron core. Transformers are indispensable in regulating electricity both in industry and in domestic households. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=697 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=697 Fri, 16 Sep 2016 Get to know the main points of action, benefits, and challenges of the SINE2020 Industry Activity. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=698 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=698 Fri, 16 Sep 2016 The Canadian Neutron Beam Centre will provide neutrons until March 2018 and will to provide assistance until March 2019 to complete data analysis and publish results. You are invited to propose challenging experiments, encourage young researchers to visit and learn everything they can from the experts. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=699 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=699 Sat, 17 Sep 2016 Engineers from NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, used neutrons recently to help understand the potential benefit of additive manufactured rocket engine components. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=700 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=700 Sat, 17 Sep 2016 Rob Dimeo took very creative notes of talks at the 50 Years of Backscattering workshop https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=701 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=701 Thu, 22 Sep 2016 Fruitful discussions with a side of sunny weather, UNESCO heritage, fado, and nice food at the SINE2020 General Assembly. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=702 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=702 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 The upcoming proposal submission deadline for neutron scattering experiments at Budapest Neutron Centre BNC is Saturday, 1 October 2016. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=703 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=703 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 Dr Alison Edwards has contributed to the characterisation of two large, complex silver nanoclusters of 136 and 374 atoms as part of an international collaboration led by researchers from Xiamen University in China. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=704 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=704 Sat, 01 Oct 2016 Using neutron beams at the CNBC, scientists gather direct molecular-level evidence for the role that Vitamin E plays in the human bodya feat that has been unattainable using other experimental techniques. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=705 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=705 Sat, 01 Oct 2016 Learn neutron scattering on 2 10 March 2017 at the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin. SINE2020 supports travel costs. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=706 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=706 Sat, 01 Oct 2016 Dr. Anatoliy Senyshyn obtains the prize for his outstanding research in the field of lithium-ion batteries, which he watches in its function in a live hook-up at the atomic level. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=707 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=707 Sun, 02 Oct 2016 The next deadline for beam time request on French neutron scattering instruments will be November 1st. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=708 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=708 Sun, 02 Oct 2016 The SINE2020 project welcomes Martin Bhm from the Institute Laue-Langevin as new Coordinator. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=709 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=709 Tue, 04 Oct 2016 The Italian Society of Neutron Spectroscopy organised the Giornate Didattiche School on June 12-20, 2016. Students were given an introduction to neutron techniques for condensed matter studies, with applications to Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Earth sciences. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=711 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=711 Tue, 04 Oct 2016 EPFL scientists discovered a material that can produce stable skyrmions in a wide range of temperatures, making it ideal for building devices. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=712 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=712 Sat, 08 Oct 2016 After the first call for industrial experiments, five companies will benefit from free neutron test measurements for their RD activities. Would you like to use neutrons for advanced characterization of your material or component, for free Youre still in time https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=713 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=713 Tue, 11 Oct 2016 Please spread the word Industrial companies can apply for free experiments at neutron research facilities. The deadline is Jan 21th 2017. Probing matter with neutrons is non-destructive. Feel free to contact us for further information. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=714 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=714 Tue, 11 Oct 2016 Next proposal round at ISIS closing date: 16 October 2016, 23:00 GMT. This call for proposals covers beamtime that will be allocated from September 2016 to February 2017. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=715 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=715 Tue, 11 Oct 2016 Neutron-scattering experiments explore origins of high-temp superconductivity. The results were published in the journal Nature Communications. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=716 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=716 Wed, 12 Oct 2016 Stimulating gathering of neutron scientists at the Joint JCNS Workshop Flipper 2016 in Tutzing, Germany. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=717 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=717 Wed, 12 Oct 2016 14 young participants attended the Italian SISN Summer School in Perugia last September. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=718 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=718 Tue, 18 Oct 2016 This release contains the much requested improvements to project saving, so now all of the state of your graphs, tables, matrices, even the instrument view, sliceviewer and VSI will reload just as you saved it. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=719 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=719 Tue, 18 Oct 2016 Helmut Schober became the new ILL Director, Mark Johnson the new Science Director and British Associate Director, and Alexandre Durand the new Head of Administration. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=720 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=720 Tue, 18 Oct 2016 Mechanical engineers of the Technical University of Munich TUM have observed battery cells during their filling with the help of neutron radiography - and have learned important lessons for the production process. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=721 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=721 Wed, 19 Oct 2016 An international team of scientists has examined high-temperature superconductors at the instrument PANDA. Their resulsts have been published in Nature Communications. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=722 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=722 Wed, 19 Oct 2016 The Helsinki University Hospital HUH and Neutron Therapeutics have entered into an agreement whereby a novel accelerator-based neutron source for boron neutron capture therapy BNCT will be installed at the HUH. BNCT is used to treat, for instance, locally advanced head and neck cancers. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=726 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=726 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 For the first time, a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST have used neutron beams to create holograms of large solid objects, revealing details about their interiors in ways that ordinary laser light-based visual holograms cannot. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=727 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=727 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 This interactive brochure illustrates the contribution of the Neutron and Muon consortium to advancing science in 2012-2016. It focus on the impact of the NMI3 activities on both science and society. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=743 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=743 Wed, 02 Nov 2016 In December 2015, Dr. Thorsten Lauer was still working as a postdoc and Thorsten Zechlau as a graduate student at the FRM II. Lauer and Zechlau could convince an investor with their knowledge and their enthusiasm for neutron optics to support the founding of a company on 1 January 2016. We would not have dreamed of that a year ago, the two founders say. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=745 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=745 Sun, 06 Nov 2016 Neutron beams reveal the molecular mechanisms behind a new technology that could reduce the risk of complications and death from heart bypass surgery and dialysis. The same technology might soon help more women survive ovarian cancer. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=746 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=746 Sun, 06 Nov 2016 Jlich, 26 October 2016 - An international research team has proved the existence of spin-spirals in a quantum liquid. They emerge at low temperatures from the magnetic moments spins of manganese scandium thiospinel single crystals MnSc2S4. Neighbouring spins fluctuate here collectively as spirals, but when spatial distances are involved, they do not take on any particular order, just as water molecules will only form structures with neighbouring water molecules. Proof of this so-called spiral spin-liquid was achieved with the help of polarized diffuse neutron scattering on an instrument of the Jlich Centre for Neutron Science JCNS at its outstation at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=747 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=747 Sun, 06 Nov 2016 John Womersley begun work as Director General of the European Spallation Source ERIC on November 1. On Friday, outgoing DG Jim Yeck delivered a message of heartfelt gratitude to ESS staff, management team, and governance. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=748 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=748 Mon, 07 Nov 2016 The website now hosts Women in Science pages featuring interviews with women who work on neutron scattering. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=723 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=723 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 This article showcases work conducted at neutron sources around the globe that confirmed the predictions of the winners of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics or that builds upon their theories. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=744 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=744 Wed, 09 Nov 2016 Registration is now open for our MATRAC 2 Winter School Application of Neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation in Materials Science with special focus on Fundamental Aspects of Materials to be held in UttingAmmersee and GarchingMunich, Germany, February 27 to March 3, 2017. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=750 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=750 Wed, 09 Nov 2016 The next call will be launched in January 2017 with a proposal submission deadline on February 20, 2017, midnight for all instruments, see list below. Those proposals will request for beamtime during the period May - October 2017. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=751 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=751 Fri, 11 Nov 2016 A SINE2020 team is working on developing Resistive Plate Chambers for neutron detectors. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=752 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=752 Tue, 15 Nov 2016 Alexandros Koutsioumpas from Forschungszentrum Jlich has studied the structure of complex lipid membranes at the neutron reflectometer MARIA. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=753 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=753 Tue, 15 Nov 2016 The SasView Development Team is pleased to announce the release of SasView 4.0.1. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=754 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=754 Mon, 28 Nov 2016 One week of beam time at the PUMA instrument have been enough for international research teams from Beijing and the USA to prove theoretical calculations experimentally. The results bring the global community of superconductors a good deal, because this small, but very important puzzle part has confirmed a theory. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=755 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=755 Mon, 28 Nov 2016 Dr. Sultan Demirdis works in the field of neutron research at Forschungszentrum Jlich. In a video, she talks about how she became a neutron scientist and why she likes working at the Jlich Centre for Neutron Science. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=756 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=756 Wed, 07 Dec 2016 British scientists have elucidated the structure of a vital enzyme with the help of neutrons. This involved the presence of a hydrogen atom. Their results are now published in Nature Communications. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=757 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=757 Thu, 08 Dec 2016 Scientists make a surprising discovery. The steepness of the temperature dependence fragility of the viscosity that is determined by chain relaxation follows the correlations at all molecular weights. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=758 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=758 Thu, 08 Dec 2016 The Canadian Neutron Beam Centre CNBC plans to provide neutrons until the end of March 2018, and to provide assistance until March 2019 to complete data analysis and publish results. You are invited to propose challenging experiments, encourage young researchers to visit and learn everything they can from our experts. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=759 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=759 Sun, 11 Dec 2016 A team is working on improving the fitting of neutron and muon data in Mantid. They developed a framework for comparing fitting minimizers targeted to serve Mantid users, but whose results are transferrable to other neutron and muon data treatment software. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=760 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=760 Sun, 11 Dec 2016 Johannes Nubickel follows Dr. Klaus Seebach as Managing Director at the FRM II neutron source in Germany. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=761 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=761 Sun, 11 Dec 2016 In partnership with GKN Powder Metallurgy, Dalhousie University researchers are using neutron beams in studies aimed at opening up the automotive market to more products made from aluminum powdersa promising alternative to the heavier steel components used in the industry today. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=762 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=762 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 Tapping into MagLab expertise on superconductors and cryogenics, a research team built a novel neutron scattering device that is more efficient and produces better data than previous techniques. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=763 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=763 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 Collaborative project results in the construction of a second UCN source at the TRIGA research reactor in Mainz Blueprint for Munich-based high-efficiency source. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=764 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=764 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 Anyone who has ever looked out of the window during an intercontinental flight has probably already seen it: cirri, the ice clouds in the upper troposphere 8-12 km high look like rattled cotton. But also in the lower stratosphere 15-20 km altitude there are ice clouds, so-called polar stratospheric clouds abbr. PSCs. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=765 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=765 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 An important increase of microhardness value for Pb,CdTe was directly confirmed by results of nanoindentation measurements performed for a few samples with various chemical composition. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=766 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=766 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 A team launched the first version of Monte Carlo Particle Lists. This new, open source format makes it simpler to interchange particle-state information data between popular Monte Carlo simulation packages, making the work of developers more efficient. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=767 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=767 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 The future Argentine Neutron Source, LAHN: Laboratorio Argentino de Haces de Neutrones, has now a dedicated page on our website. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=768 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=768 Mon, 19 Dec 2016 Water, a simple molecule but a complex behaviour. Neutron scattering demonstrate that there are two dynamic processes with quite different temperature dependences. A possible clue to answer open questions about low temperature liquid water. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=769 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=769 Wed, 28 Dec 2016 A new material retains its special magnetic properties even at room temperature. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=770 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=770 Wed, 28 Dec 2016 Slides and videos of the talks given at the workshop are now available online. The workshop focused on requirementsdevelopments for a bidirectional Monte Carlo variance reduction method applied to neutron beamline transport systems. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=771 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=771 Wed, 28 Dec 2016 The influence of interactions in high protein concentrations is extremely difficult to quantify experimentally. Neutron scattering experiments performed among other places at the J-NSE instrument at MLZ, and computer simulations carried out in Jlich have now made studies possible in physiological concentrations. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=775 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=775 Fri, 30 Dec 2016 During the 8th International Topical Meeting on Neutron Radiography held in Beijing this year, it was decided that Argentina will host the next meeting. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=776 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=776 Tue, 03 Jan 2017 The Dutch Permanent Committee for Large-Scale Scientific Infrastructures announced today that ESS has been included in the National Roadmap. The strategic document brings the Netherlands one step closer to full membership in the European Spallation Source ERIC. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=772 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=772 Tue, 03 Jan 2017 The European Spallation Source is moving into exciting new territory: work in Conventional Facilities is approaching 40 percent complete and significant technical installations begin this month. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=773 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=773 Tue, 03 Jan 2017 Looking ahead to a time when the ESS facility is fully operational, 17 external experts provided essential input for baselining cost projections. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=774 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=774 Tue, 03 Jan 2017 There is a strong suspicion that Helicobacter pylori is linked to the development of stomach cancer. Now an international team of researchers led by Prof. Donald R. Ronning University of Toledo, USA used neutrons to unlock the secret to the functionality of an important enzyme in the bacteriums metabolism. This could be used as a point of attack for new medications. Measurements made at Oak Ridge and FRM II. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=777 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=777 Tue, 03 Jan 2017 Theres a new link on our History pages. A film shows the early construction at the ISIS facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, in the UK. The film was made in the summer of 1985, in preparation for the official opening in October 1985 of the facility by Margaret Thatcher, the then Prime Minister. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=343 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=343 Tue, 10 Jan 2017 The ILL is launching an open call for Expressions of Interest for new instrumentation as part of Phase 2 of the Endurance Upgrade Programme. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=778 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=778 Wed, 11 Jan 2017 The upcoming proposal submission deadline for neutron scattering experiments at the Institut Laue-Langevin ILL is Tuesday, 14 February 2017. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=779 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=779 Wed, 11 Jan 2017 The ICNS 2017 Online Submission System is now open. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=780 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=780 Fri, 13 Jan 2017 Australias state-of-the-art multi-purpose nuclear reactor has operated for more than 300 days at full power for a second consecutive year with over 99 reliability. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=781 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=781 Fri, 13 Jan 2017 Students can now apply for the Master Program. The application deadlines are different for the country of origin: for non-EU students, they will end on 31 January 2017; EU students must apply until 28 February 2017. All those who do not need a scholarship will have time until 15 May 2017. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=782 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=782 Fri, 13 Jan 2017 Scientists are using neutrons to study the fundamental role carbon dioxide plays in Earths carbon cycle, especially in the composition of carbon reservoirs in the deep earth and the evolution of the carbon cycle over time. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=783 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=783 Tue, 17 Jan 2017 Scientific discovery can come from anywhere, but few researchers can say the answers to their questions would come from the pea-sized bones in the head of a six-foot-long, 200-pound prehistoric freshwater fish. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=784 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=784 Tue, 17 Jan 2017 Inelastic neutron scattering, nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry, infrared measurements, UV-spectroscopy and electrochemical studies were used to study the properties and quantum mechanics of HFC60. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=785 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=785 Fri, 20 Jan 2017 A letter published in Physical Review Letters, by a group of scientists of the Atominstitut - Institute of Atomic Subatomic Physics of TU Wien Austria, after an experiment on S18 at ILL. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=786 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=786 Fri, 20 Jan 2017 The next deadline for the submission of beam time requests for the Swiss spallation neutron source SINQ will be February 20, 2017, midnight. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=787 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=787 Fri, 20 Jan 2017 It is really a treasure chest that is being built here. Im convinced that the local hosts will be positively surprised by what will pop up out of this during its 40-year lifetime, provided it continues to be supported in the same spirit as it so far has been. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=788 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=788 Tue, 24 Jan 2017 About 250 students and early career scientists have already benefited from SINE2020 funding to eight introductory neutron and muon schools. Grants will also be available for advanced schools soon. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=789 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=789 Tue, 24 Jan 2017 How has science changed our lives How will neutrons help us meet the challenges of the future And whats it like to work in an international science facility under construction This talk will take you on a trip through archaeology, life science and magnetism, and end up at a huge construction site. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=790 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=790 Wed, 25 Jan 2017 The Institut Laue-Langevin ILL celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2017. A new book tells about ILLs 50 years of service to science and society. It is available in the 3 official languages. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=343 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=343 Wed, 25 Jan 2017 Lessons in Experimental Quantum Mechanics, Wave-Particle Duality, and Entanglement https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=793 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=793 Wed, 01 Feb 2017 One of the worlds largest producers of surfactants considers the time spent at ILL using neutrons, through SINE2020, invaluable for its RD activities. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=794 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=794 Sun, 05 Feb 2017 Theres a new project on our Projects page. ACCELERATE is a Horizon 2020 project, supporting the long-term sustainability of large scale research infrastructures. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=68 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=68 Thu, 09 Feb 2017 Scientists as individuals or on behalf of a Division, Section or Group may now submit nominations for the 2017 Walter Hlg Prize of the European Neutron Scattering Association ENSA. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=795 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=795 Tue, 14 Feb 2017 The IV course of the Erice School NEUTRON SCIENCE AND INSTRUMENTATION will be on 1 8 July 2017. Registrations close on May 10. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=796 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=796 Tue, 14 Feb 2017 A novel approach was developed combining time-resolved small angle neutron scattering with online-fluorescence spectroscopy in order to monitor the PAN unfoldase from the deep-sea Methanocaldococcus jannaschii organism and a Green Fluorescent Protein model substrate. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=797 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=797 Wed, 15 Feb 2017 The fellowship is intended to attract visiting scholars to LANSCE in the fields of nuclear science, materials science, defense science and accelerator technology. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=798 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=798 Wed, 15 Feb 2017 ANSTO has collaborated on research with Macquarie University to clarify the origin of microstructures in metamorphic rock found deep in the Earths crust and mantle impacted by mineral-bearing fluids. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=799 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=799 Thu, 16 Feb 2017 Flora Meilleur is a structural biologist she is interested in the structure of biomolecules, specifically of proteins. Since 2007 she held a joint faculty position between the Oak Ridge Neutron Sciences Directorate and North Carolina State University NCSU. In July 2015, she was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=800 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=800 Tue, 21 Feb 2017 The deadline for submitting your HZB Beamtime Applications for projects to be carried out in the second half year 2017 is 1 MARCH 2017, 23:59 CET. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=801 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=801 Wed, 22 Feb 2017 CERIC-ERIC is launching its seventh call for proposals, with a two-steps deadline option: March 1 and March 30. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=802 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=802 Wed, 22 Feb 2017 For the first time ever, this study showed quantum tunnelling in these systems, allowing the H atoms bound to C atoms to explore relatively long distances at temperatures as low as those in interstitial clouds. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=804 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=804 Sun, 26 Feb 2017 Learn about neutron scattering and how you can benefit from using neutrons on 8 12 May 2017 at the 11th Central European Training School on neutron techniques in Budapest. Apply by March 15. Grants available. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=805 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=805 Sun, 26 Feb 2017 For the first time, the call for experiments is made by the 2FDN for all the beam time on LLB instruments and the four French CRGs at the ILL. Deadline March 29th at 23:59 French time. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=806 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=806 Tue, 28 Feb 2017 ESS and J-PARC. Naohito Saito, Director of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex, visited ESS and MAX IV on Monday to exchange knowledge and discuss their upcoming collaboration workshop with ESS and Swedish universities. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=807 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=807 Wed, 01 Mar 2017 A postdoc from the Technical University of Denmark has performed a neutron imaging experiment at J-PARC in Japan using EU Interregional funds. Malgorzata Makowska studied how to optimise solid-oxide fuel cells, a sustainable technology in use by industry and consumers. Scientists from DTU and ESS provided supervision and expertise. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=808 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=808 Thu, 02 Mar 2017 In two videos Maurice Goldhaber and Laurence Passell tell about the history of reactors at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=343 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=343 Thu, 02 Mar 2017 You are invited to apply for time on the neutron beam instruments at the NIST Center for Neutron Research NCNR. Due to facility maintenance about of the usual time given through proposals will be allocated in this proposal round. The deadline for all proposals is Tuesday, March 14, 2017. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=809 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=809 Mon, 06 Mar 2017 Proposals at the OPAL Neutron Beam Facility both cold- and thermal-neutron instruments and National Deuteration Facility. Deadline 15 March 2017, for beam time between July and December 2017. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=810 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=810 Wed, 08 Mar 2017 Proposals for beam time at Oak Ridge National Laboratorys High Flux Isotope Reactor HFIR and Spallation Neutron Source SNS will be accepted via the web-based proposal system until NOON EASTERN TIME, Wednesday, April 12, 2017. This call is for experiments anticipated to run July through December 2017. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=811 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=811 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 The SINE2020 work-package on Sample Environment met on January 25-26 in Lund to present and discuss updates on the WP tasks. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=812 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=812 Mon, 20 Mar 2017 A phenomenon of microphase separation, which appears as a novel fascinating confinement effect for fully miscible binary liquids. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=813 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=813 Mon, 20 Mar 2017 Release of SpinW3, an updated computational tool for simulating spin waves. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=814 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=814 Wed, 22 Mar 2017 This release contains the long awaited ability to visualise non orthogonal crystal systems correctly in the slice viewer. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=815 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=815 Wed, 22 Mar 2017 The first of January 2017, the Fdration Franaise de Diffusion Neutronique French Federation of Neutron Scattering has been created. It federates the Laboratoire Lon Brillouin LLB in Saclay and the CEAINACMEM and Institut NEEL neutron groups in Grenoble. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=816 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=816 Wed, 22 Mar 2017 The newly built time of flight spectrometre NEAT has welcomed its first users: Jie Ma from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and his colleague Zhilun Lu examined magnetic excitations in crystalline samples and enjoyed fast data rate and high flexibility of instrumental configurations. NEAT team is now looking forward to further new studies and user experiments https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=817 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=817 Wed, 22 Mar 2017 Neutron spectroscopy has enabled an international team to unravel quantum entanglement in a dimer of complex molecular qubits. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=818 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=818 Tue, 28 Mar 2017 Rechargeable lithium batteries with cathodes comprising nickel, manganese, and cobalt, are viewed as the most potent today. But they, too, have a limited lifespan. Why this happens and what can be done to alleviate the ensuing gradual loss of capacity has now been investigated in detail by a team of scientists using positrons at the Technical University of Munich TUM. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=819 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=819 Tue, 28 Mar 2017 Delegates from the 15 European Spallation Source member and observer nations held a one-day strategy meeting in Lund on Thursday. Plans for finalising the construction and moving into operations, as well as principles for association of new members were up for discussion. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=820 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=820 Tue, 28 Mar 2017 The European Spallation Source was the site of a roundtable discussion featuring King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, the Governor General of Canada, and the research ministers of the two nations. The focus was on collaboration between Canadas and Swedens science, industry and research infrastructures. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=821 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=821 Wed, 29 Mar 2017 Measurements on the Pelican time-of-flight spectrometer have contributed to a better understanding of the molecular geometry and magnetic properties of a prospective material for quantum computing. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=822 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=822 Wed, 29 Mar 2017 IKON12. A record number of participants at the 12th meeting for In-Kind Contributions for Neutron Science at ESS demonstrated the expanding scale and complexity of the instrument projects as they move through preliminary engineering design. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=823 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=823 Wed, 29 Mar 2017 MAX4ESSFUN. Mucus protects many of our bodys vital functions against dehydration. Understanding the structure and function of this biological material will give researchers more tools to prevent and treat common diseases like cystic fibrosis and asthma. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=824 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=824 Wed, 29 Mar 2017 The Modulator. Carlos Martins and his ESS power converters team, with the help of Lund University researchers, have successfully brought a new high-voltage modulator design to series production. The cost savings and reduced footprint for these large machines mean a paradigm shift for linac power supply worldwide. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=825 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=825 Wed, 29 Mar 2017 Within the SINE2020 project we have setup an European Deuteration Network DEUNET that aims to increase the availability and accessibility of complex deuterated molecules to the European neutron scattering community. The existing capabilities of the laboratories at ISIS, ILL and FZJ which currently produce deuterated materials for neutron scattering will be complemented by an additional laboratory at ESS. Furthermore, the organisation of the facilities into a network leverages the unique specialisations of each of the laboratories. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=826 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=826 Wed, 29 Mar 2017 The SINE2020 project offers the opportunity to use Europes leading neutron facilities for your companys RD. Apply by June 30th 2017 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=827 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=827 Wed, 05 Apr 2017 More than 6 million Euros has been invested by the European Commission in the development of new nuclear fuel. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=832 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=832 Fri, 07 Apr 2017 Small angle neutron scattering SANS at the Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering has confirmed that the strength of a type of supramolecular hydrogel can be increased by heating. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=831 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=831 Tue, 11 Apr 2017 An abrupt thermal spin transition has been investigated with a specially designed optical setup for neutron scattering to address the magnetic properties of the light-induced HS stat https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=833 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=833 Thu, 13 Apr 2017 For 20 years researchers from a range of disciplines have been using the Swiss Spallation Neutron Source SINQ of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI for their investigations. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=836 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=836 Tue, 18 Apr 2017 Cobalt Defect Clusters Embedded in Titanium Oxide Films were studied with low-angle polarized neutron scattering with specular reflected beams. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=829 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=829 Wed, 19 Apr 2017 The Walter Hlg Prize is awarded biennially to a European scientist for outstanding, coherent work in neutron scattering https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=828 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=828 Fri, 28 Apr 2017 The NIST Center for Neutron Research NCNR is sad to announce the death of Dr. John J. Rush Jack on April 20, 2017. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=835 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=835 Fri, 28 Apr 2017 ESS interviews team members at Daresbury Lab in England. The STFC facility is responsible for series production and testing of the 84 high-beta cavities of the European Spallation Sources superconducting Accelerator. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=834 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=834 Wed, 03 May 2017 Ricardo Garcia Soto a Chilean science author and director of television films made a short about what to see at the FRM II. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=830 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=830 Thu, 04 May 2017 Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and ETH Zurich have developed a new chemical process that allows the efficient conversion of methane to methanol. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=837 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=837 Thu, 04 May 2017 McStas 2.4 has been released and is ready for download. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=839 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=839 Thu, 18 May 2017 Distortions of two valuable wooden figures from the beginning of the 18th century were examined with fast neutrons on the instrument NECTAR of the MLZ in Garching. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=840 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=840 Wed, 24 May 2017 Neutron scattering has revealed in unprecedented detail new insights into the exotic magnetic behavior of a material that, with a fuller understanding, could pave the way for quantum calculations. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=847 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=847 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 The Walter Haelg Prize 2017 has been awarded to Professor Juan Colmenero from the University of the Basque Country, in Spain. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=841 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=841 Sat, 10 Jun 2017 The instrument BioDiff at the MLZ has located with highest accuracy hydrogen atoms of various inhibitors when binding to the enzyme trypsin. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=843 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=843 Tue, 13 Jun 2017 Neutron reflectivity, alongside other imaging methods, has been used to study the properties of ultrathin PtCoPt films. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=846 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=846 Wed, 14 Jun 2017 In 1999, PSI researchers founded the spin-off firm SwissNeutronics. Today the company sells high-precision components to research institutions all over the world. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=849 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=849 Wed, 14 Jun 2017 After a successful year of promotion of neutron scattering techniques, the LAHN team organised the first Argentinean Meeting on Neutron Scattering TN2017, held in Buenos Aires on March 15-17th. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=842 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=842 Tue, 20 Jun 2017 Neutrons where used to test the Phonon-Liquid Electron-Crystal PLEC approach as a step towards developing better thermoelectric materials. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=844 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=844 Tue, 20 Jun 2017 Neutrons assist the exploration of a completely new set of topological insulating materials. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=845 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=845 Wed, 21 Jun 2017 With sponsorship from Tesla Motors, one Gold medal Canadian scientist is using neutron beams in the quest to reduce the cost of energy storage technologies. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=848 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=848 Thu, 22 Jun 2017 75 scientists, engineers and technicians from 10 countries and representatives from 10 sponsoring companies attended the International Workshop for Sample Environment at Scattering Facilities 2016. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=880 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=880 Thu, 22 Jun 2017 Recently, Michael Laa could clarify the possible function of an enigmatic impression in the braincase of the forerunners of mammals by means of neutron tomography at the instrument ANTARES of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=850 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=850 Thu, 06 Jul 2017 Thanks to a new material developed by researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and Empa, electrolysers are likely to become cheaper and more efficient in the future. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=851 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=851 Mon, 17 Jul 2017 Scientists from EPFL and PSI have shown experimentally, for the first time, a quantum phase transition in strontium copper borate. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=853 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=853 Mon, 17 Jul 2017 The correlation between spot welding and residual stress in boron steel was experimentally determined for the first time with neutron diffraction experiments conducted at the Institut Laue-Langevin ILL. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=852 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=852 Thu, 20 Jul 2017 Just how lupines draw water approaching their roots in soil has now for the first time been observed in three dimensions by a University of Potsdam team at the HZB-BER II neutron source in Berlin. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=854 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=854 Tue, 25 Jul 2017 One University of Calgary geoscientist is demonstrating how to use neutron beams to determine the manner in which the pores in shale deposits store oil and gas. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=885 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=885 Fri, 18 Aug 2017 Scientists are looking for an alternative superalloy as a gas turbine material. Lukas Karge studied a hot candidate for his PhD thesis with Dr. habil. Ralph Gilles at the MLZ. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=855 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=855 Thu, 24 Aug 2017 Using cold neutrons it is possible to examine the 3D internal structure of fossil teeth. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=860 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=860 Tue, 29 Aug 2017 The 2.2bn 330m China Spallation Neutron Source CSNS has produced its first neutrons. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=857 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=857 Mon, 04 Sep 2017 Experiments performed at the Institut Laue-Langevin, using both ultracold neutrons at the instrument PF2 and neutron interferometry at S18, play a major role in testing the existence of chameleon fields. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=862 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=862 Tue, 05 Sep 2017 Neutron experiments conducted by the Institut Laue-Langevin ILL and CNRS researchers lead to a novel picture of thermal conductivity in complex materials. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=861 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=861 Fri, 08 Sep 2017 Mushroom pickers never reveal their places of discovery and neither for Dr. Matthias Rossbach. Instead, they have sent him the dried mushrooms they collected in Bavaria, Lower Saxony and Brandenburg, for scientific research. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=858 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=858 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 From a total of 15 election candidates Astrid Schneidewind FZ Jlich is the new KFN chairman. Markus Braden University of Cologne is the new deputy chairman. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=856 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=856 Tue, 19 Sep 2017 Peter Littlewood, former director of the Argonne National Laboratory, was invited to visit the Chinese Spallation Neutron Source CSNS and attended the CSNS Academic Forum on September 18. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=859 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=859 Wed, 20 Sep 2017 Oil and gas pipeline safety standard practices have been influenced by a team of researchers, who use neutron beams to better understand stress and corrosion in pipeline steel. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=886 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=886 Wed, 27 Sep 2017 A Simon Fraser University chemist is making breakthroughs in understanding the materials that play a major role in the future of the Internet of Things. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=864 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=864 Tue, 03 Oct 2017 Worldwide, more than 30 million medical examinations are conducted annually with technetium-99m. A new film shows the status of the upgrading at the FRM II towards the production of its mother isotope molybdenum-99. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=863 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=863 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 Nordic and Baltic states have come together to increase competence in neutron scattering among young researchers and raise the number of neutron users in the region. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=871 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=871 Mon, 09 Oct 2017 Scientists at the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory have performed neutron structural analysis of a vitamin B6-dependent protein, potentially opening avenues for new antibiotics and drugs. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=867 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=867 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 The combination of several techniques helped define the raw materials and pigments used for the production and decoration of archaeological pottery fragments from the medieval ruins of the Agsu archaeological site in Azerbaijan. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=872 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=872 Fri, 20 Oct 2017 The structure of old fired-clay bricks has been investigated with neutrons. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=873 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=873 Fri, 20 Oct 2017 Evidence has been found that contradicts the basic theory of the exact role of zinc within boromolybdate glasses. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=874 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=874 Fri, 20 Oct 2017 Its the birthday of James Chadwick, who discovered the neutron in 1932. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=876 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=876 Fri, 20 Oct 2017 Findings on Perylene structure open new routes for the design of organic electronics. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=875 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=875 Fri, 20 Oct 2017 Jonathan Taylor reviews the data-management challenges facing neutron sources and other large-scale research facilities as they strive to maximize the scientific and economic impact of their work https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=868 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=868 Mon, 23 Oct 2017 Neutrons are an exceptional resource for probing the atomic properties of materials, leading to advancements in materials science, biology, chemistry, and physicsand bringing us more effective drugs and medical treatments, 3D-printed tools and machinery, biofuels, and better batteries and energy storage technologies. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=869 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=869 Mon, 23 Oct 2017 Casper Rutjes and Ute Ebert trace how our understanding of thunderstorm physics has evolved in recent decades and explain how neutron measurements could produce fresh insightsThe link between thunderstorm and neutron science is not an obvious one... https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=870 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=870 Mon, 23 Oct 2017 An international team of reserchers is exploring one way to make tumour-destroying heat treatment more applicable to different kinds of tumours. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=884 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=884 Thu, 26 Oct 2017 The hour of birth of the German neutron research:The Atomic Egg, the first German research reactor, started operating 60 years ago in Garching. Thereby, irreplaceable insights into matter were made possible. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=878 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=878 Fri, 03 Nov 2017 Using the MaNDi instrument, scientists at ORNL hope to better understand how bacteria containing enzymes called beta-lactamases resist the beta-lactam class of antibiotics. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=879 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=879 Mon, 06 Nov 2017 The U.S. Department of Energys Ames Laboratory has discovered and described the existence of a unique disordered electron spin state in a metal that may provide a unique pathway to finding and studying frustrated magnets. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=882 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=882 Wed, 08 Nov 2017 A workhorse catalyst of vehicle exhaust systemsan oxygen sponge that can soak up oxygen from air and store it for later use in oxidation reactionsmay also be a hydrogen sponge. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=881 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=881 Thu, 09 Nov 2017 A new study sheds light on a unique enzyme that could provide an eco-friendly treatment for chlorite-contaminated water supplies and improve water quality worldwide. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=883 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=883 Mon, 13 Nov 2017 Beam generator puts country in elite company for doing experiments in materials science and other fields. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=902 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=902 Tue, 14 Nov 2017 Ultra-cold neutrons are used as an ideal tool for studying gravity at the microscopic level and fundamental neutron optics. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=888 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=888 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 You cannot solve your problem with conventional lab equipment From 8 to 9 March 2018, SYNERGI 2018 will bring together industrial researchers and scientists from large-scale facilities at the NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam. These unique facilities offer a deep insight into materials of all types. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=887 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=887 Tue, 21 Nov 2017 Researchers characterize the spin couplings in the prototypical single-molecule magnet Mn12 using an advanced neutron scattering technique. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=904 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=904 Wed, 22 Nov 2017 The NIST Bureau of Standards Reactor is celebrating its 50th anniversary of going critical on December 7, 2017. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=889 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=889 Sat, 25 Nov 2017 A Neutron study conducted at ILL gives a renewed picture of the Lindemann criterion. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=897 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=897 Mon, 27 Nov 2017 Neutron reflectometry has been used to improve our fundamental understanding of corrosion and corrosion inhibitors. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=903 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=903 Mon, 27 Nov 2017 Researchers from Jlich, Garching, Georgia, and France have developed a new method in neutron research with which any deformation of cell membranes can be detected better than before. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=891 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=891 Tue, 28 Nov 2017 A portrait about Eugene Mamontov who is the lead instrument scientist for BASIS, the backscattering, crystal-analyzer spectrometer at the SNS that is particularly good at deciphering the dynamics of water in various systems. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=901 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=901 Tue, 28 Nov 2017 Neutron diffraction experiments at the ILL provide deeper understanding of materials with structures comprising multiple metal elements. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=899 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=899 Thu, 30 Nov 2017 Memorial University physicists are using neutron beams to shed light on the molecular behaviours that are fundamental to the inner workings of living cells. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=900 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=900 Thu, 30 Nov 2017 The triple axis spectrometer FLEXX at BER II provides a new detector module for user service. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=893 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=893 Fri, 01 Dec 2017 A research team at the HZB has precisely characterised for the first time the various types of defects in kesterite semiconductors. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=894 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=894 Thu, 07 Dec 2017 Nicholas Leister and his supervisor Dr. Xiaosong Li examined different meteorites in their elemental composition after the samples had previously been irradiated at the FRMII. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=905 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=905 Mon, 11 Dec 2017 J-PARC is back to its user operation since mid-October after three months of summer shutdown for maintenance. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=895 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=895 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 ORNL scientists used neutrons to understand how water flows through fractured rock. Their results help improve models for drilling, hydraulic fracturing and underground storage of carbon dioxide https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=906 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=906 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 Neutron scattering was used for studying magnetic behavior in a material called alpha-ruthenium trichloride. The results may have implications for quantum computing. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=907 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=907 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 researchers have discovered the atomic mechanisms that give the unusual material yttrium manganite YMnO3 its rare electromagnetic properties. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=908 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=908 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 A team of researchers from the University of South Carolina is using neutrons to develop more durable and efficient materials called waste forms for safely storing hazardous substances. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=909 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=909 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 By exploiting the properties of neutrons to probe electrons in a metal, a team of researchers has gained new insight into the behavior of correlated electron systems. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=911 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=911 Thu, 11 Jan 2018 Scientists from JGU have been able to increase the ultracold neutron yield of their source by a factor of 3.5. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=910 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=910 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 Researchers have observed the structure of a functional p7 protein within its native environment for the first time using reflected neutrons. The observed mechanisms will help future drug development. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=912 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=912 Tue, 16 Jan 2018 Smart photovoltaic windows represent a promising green technology featuring tunable transparency and electrical power generation under external stimuli to control the light transmission and manage the solar energy. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-017-0006-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-017-0006-0 Mon, 22 Jan 2018 Prof. Andreas Schreyer, the Director of Science at ESS visited the JEEP II-reactor at Kjeller, Norway on January the 23rd, underlining the importance of the facility. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=916 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=916 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 A research group conducts high pressure neutron diffraction experiments that help develop novel materials. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=917 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=917 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 The 49th IFF Spring School Physics of Life will be held February 26 March 9 2018 in Jlich, Germany. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=890 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=890 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 Dr. Eddy Lelivre-Berna is the new Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Neutron Research. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=915 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=915 Thu, 01 Feb 2018 Researchers from MLZ Forschungszentrum Jlich investigated the crystallization of the protein lysozyme in an experiment at the Institut Laue-Langevin ILL. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=918 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=918 Thu, 22 Feb 2018 A new video from the Jlich Centre for Neutron Science introduces the novel detector system Solid State Neutron Detector, known as SoNDe. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=921 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=921 Fri, 16 Mar 2018 It is already known that dinosaurs lay eggs. The fact that the offspring of the same mother hatch at different times from the eggs, was observed so far only in modern birds. For the first time, measurements at FRM II could prove that already their ancestors, the dinosaurs, hatched asynchronously. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=930 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=930 Thu, 05 Apr 2018 The worlds highest-performance neutron source for research, FRM II of the Technical University of Munich TUM, will have a new Scientific Director as of April 1st. With the appointment of Professor Peter Mller-Buschbaum, an internationally renowned researcher has been appointed to succeed Winfried Petry. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=931 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=931 Thu, 05 Apr 2018 The Workshop will take place at Forschungszentrum Jlich in the main lecture hall. Here we will have oral presentations, a poster session and an exhibition. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=919 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=919 Tue, 15 May 2018 Since 1990 the Bombannes school series introduces, on a fundamental level, the current methodology of static and dynamic scattering techniques and their applicaiton to soft matter systems. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=892 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=892 Tue, 19 Jun 2018 IFEs Board of Directors has decided to permanently close the Halden Reactor and to start decommissioning the reactor. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=935 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=935 Wed, 27 Jun 2018 Jlich scientist Nikolaos Biniskos together with his colleagues in a Franco-German research team has gained new insights into the inverse magnetocaloric effect with the help of neutron scattering studies. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=936 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=936 Wed, 27 Jun 2018 For the first time a team of researchers have discovered with the help of neutrons at the instrument SANS-1 two different phases of magnetic skyrmions in a single material. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=963 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=963 Wed, 11 Jul 2018 Neutron scattering has enabled scientists at Forschungszentrum Jlich to detect the formation of droplets in supercritical carbon dioxide at high pressure. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=962 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=962 Mon, 23 Jul 2018 The new instrument KOMPASS at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum has seen its first neutrons on 29th May 2018, The name KOMPASS is an abbreviation for KOeln-Munich on Polarization Analysis Specialized Spectrometer. https://mlz-garching.de/englisch/news-und-press/news-articles/three-axis-spectrometer-kompass-sees-first-neutrons.html?back=yes https://mlz-garching.de/englisch/news-und-press/news-articles/three-axis-spectrometer-kompass-sees-first-neutrons.html?back=yes Fri, 31 Aug 2018 Representatives of eight European research infrastructures signed the Charter of the League of advanced European Neutron Sources LENS at the International Conference of Research Infrastructures, ICRI2018, in Vienna today. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=961 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=961 Thu, 13 Sep 2018 The end of the SNI 2018 conference in Garching, Germany ended with the presentation of the poster prizes and the Wolfram Prandl Prize Lecture. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=964 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=964 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 SNI 2018: News from the ESS. Andreas Schreyer presented an update on the ESS construction. Read more to find out the progress of the project and how much concrete has been used so far https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=965 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=965 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 The third and final ESS Coldbox has arrived and been put into place at the ESS in Lund, Sweden. It weighs 38 tonnes and is the worlds largest helium refrigerator within the 15-20K temperature range. Its home may now be in Sweden but it is an international effort having been procured by Swiss company Linde Kryotechnik and it was manufactured in Italy. https://europeanspallationsource.se/construction-update/2018/09/19 https://europeanspallationsource.se/construction-update/2018/09/19 Wed, 26 Sep 2018 The SasView Collaboration is pleased to announce the latest release of its popular SAS data analysis package, SasView 4.2.0.This version contains a number of infrastructural improvements, bug fixes, and documentation enhancements. Full details can be found in the Release notes. Download it now for free at www.sasview.org.This project receives funding from the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 654000. https://sine2020.eu/news-and-media/sasview-420-released.html https://sine2020.eu/news-and-media/sasview-420-released.html Mon, 08 Oct 2018 Researchers have been using neutrons to explore the complex outer surfaces of the bacterium Escherichia Coli E.coli, and they have revealed in the process, with great precision and detail, how such bacteria interact with their surroundings. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=982 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=982 Tue, 23 Oct 2018 The deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended to June 25, 2018 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=934 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=934 Mon, 29 Oct 2018 Instead of beach and sun, they preferred working with mathematical functions for neutron scattering data. Two pupils changed Catalonia for Bavaria for four weeks and performed a practical with Dr. Sebastian Busch at the MLZ in summer. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=987 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=987 Tue, 30 Oct 2018 Searching for solutions to supersonic fluid flow behavior, researchers from the University of TennesseeKnoxville, and the US Air Force are using neutron radiography at the Department of Energys DOEs Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL. The team says a better understanding of spray dynamics will lead to improved fuel injector designs for the aeronautic and automotive industries as well as other spray-related applications used in agriculture, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=985 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=985 Mon, 05 Nov 2018 A combination of high performance computing and neutron scattering is a powerful tool of discovery for new materials that improve our quality of life and respect the environment. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=981 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=981 Wed, 07 Nov 2018 Physicists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz JGU have recently succeeded in observing parity violation in ytterbium atoms with different numbers of neutrons. The initial effect of the measurements is to confirm the predictions of the Standard Model of particle physics that atoms with different numbers of neutrons would demonstrate parity violation. The research was published in the Nature Physics journal. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=980 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=980 Mon, 12 Nov 2018 To assess the current use of McStas, the McStas team have put together the a survey for users of our neutron Monte Carlo ray-tracing package.Using the survey results, the team hope to gain insight and statistics on the McStas user community, where it is currently based, which operating systems and computing infrastructures are used, and to what satisfaction the package, support infrastructure and documentation is used. The survey should also give us a clear picture where to focus their future efforts.We hope you will help by investing a few minutes in the survey: https:www.surveymonkey.comrL38RXZG:https:www.surveymonkey.comrL38RXZG Thank you on behalf of the McStas team. Wed, 14 Nov 2018 The Data Treatment software download links involved in the SINE2020 project is now collated on just one page of the SINE2020.eu website so that you can easily find them when you need them.Here you will find links to BornAgain, Mantid, MUESR, SasView and others. https://sine2020.eu/randd-activities/data-treatment/software.html https://sine2020.eu/randd-activities/data-treatment/software.html Wed, 14 Nov 2018 In December 2017, the Spallation Neutron Source SNS at the Department of Energys DOEs Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL entered into an extended 5 month scheduled outage to perform a number of high-priority jobs needed to ensure safe and reliable operation at higher powers. Most notable were the replacement of the facilitys inner reflector plug IRP and the accelerators radio frequency quadrupole RFQ. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=983 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=983 Wed, 14 Nov 2018 Engineers from Duke University are using cold lower- energy neutron scattering techniques at Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL to study the vibrational motions of atoms, called phonons, which is how heat propagates through thermoelectric materials. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=984 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=984 Thu, 15 Nov 2018 Scientists at the Chair of Functional Materials at Physics Department of TUM have been researching organic photovoltaic cells since several years. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=986 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=986 Thu, 15 Nov 2018 High-level Swedish and Italian delegations, led by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and President Sergio Mattarella of Italy, came together to inaugurate the first major technical components to be commissioned at the European Spallation Source: the Accelerators Ion Source and LEBT. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=972 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=972 Tue, 20 Nov 2018 Quasielastic neutron scattering experiments under a high pressure of 0.8 GPa were conducted at ILL to measure the translational diffusion of methane molecules at the interface of clathrate structures I and II. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=898 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=898 Thu, 29 Nov 2018 An international team of physicists has developed a breakthrough method to calculate the exact point at which atomic nuclei become unstable. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=896 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=896 Sat, 08 Dec 2018 McStas 2.5 is the seventh release in the 2.x series and fixes various issues with McStas 2.4.1, plus many new developments. McStas 2.5 is also the 20th anniversary release of McStas 1.0 was released in October 1998 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=989 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=989 Thu, 13 Dec 2018 The construction of the Campus surrounding the European Spallation Source has started with a groundbreaking ceremony. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=991 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=991 Tue, 18 Dec 2018 The project PaNOSC, Photon and Neutron Open Science Cloud is one of five cluster projects funded under the European H2020 programme. PaNOSC started on the 1st of December 2018, and will be officially launched on January 15th, 2019. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=992 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=992 Fri, 21 Dec 2018 Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jlich and University College London have now demonstrated for the first time that despite high concentration levels, proteins do not clump together in nanocavities of porous silicon dioxide, but instead behave like a fluid. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=993 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=993 Thu, 03 Jan 2019 The BrightnESS2 project holds their kick-off meeting in Rome, Italy. Research organisations and facilities from 11 different countries have jointly set off on a three year journey to strengthen neutron scattering in Europe and create an ecosystem for sustainable science with ESS. They will work towards this goal under the banner of BrightnESS2, a project funded by Horizon 2020. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=999 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=999 Tue, 15 Jan 2019 An international research team led by the University of Liverpool and McMaster University has made a significant breakthrough in the search for new states of matter.In a study published in the journal Nature Physics, researchers show that the perovskite-related metal oxide, TbInO3, exhibits a quantum spin liquid state, a long-sought-after and unusual state of matter. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1003 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1003 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 An HZB team with neutron experiments at the BER II in Berlin and at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble has clarified what happens on the surface of the silicon anode during charging and which processes reduce the capacitance. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1001 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1001 Mon, 28 Jan 2019 If youre looking for a liquid to study with neutron scattering, lemon liqueur probably isnt your first thought. But, for Dr. Leonardo Chiappisi, a researcher at the Institut Laue-Langevin ILL, France and the Technical University of Berlin TU Berlin, it was an obvious choice. Im originally from Sicily, he jokes, and limoncello is the best thing to help liven up a dinner. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1000 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1000 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 Physicists from the University of Luxembourg, the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum MLZ and a team of research partners have demonstrated for the first time in a comprehensive study how different magnetic materials can be examined using small-angle neutron scattering. The scientists around Dr. Sebastian Mhlbauer MLZ, Technical University of Munich and Prof. Dr. Andreas Michels University of Luxemburg have published their insights in Reviews of Modern Physics, the respected science journal of the American Physical Society https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1010 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1010 Tue, 12 Mar 2019 Scientists from Jlich together with colleagues from Japan have discovered how fuel cell membranes can be improved without the use of rare and expensive precious metals such as platinum. The anion-exchange membranes studied are a key component of certain polymer electrolyte fuel cells and serve to transfer charged particles anions while at the same time retaining gases such as oxygen or hydrogen. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1011 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1011 Wed, 20 Mar 2019 One of the broad research areas at PSI covers the topic of energy. Part of that, in turn, is the research for nuclear energy and safety. And one of the research groups based here is engaged with nuclear fuels. Johannes Bertsch is the head of this group and investigates the importance of so-called cladding tubes and their protective layers. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1012 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1012 Mon, 25 Mar 2019 New clues about the molecular nature of Alzheimers disease.Alzheimers disease is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder that affects memory, thinking skills and other mental abilities. One of the hallmarks of the disease is the presence of amyloid plaques which accumulate between nerve cells in the brain.Researchers have used neutron experiments to explore the toxic effect of amyloid species that arise during amyloid plaque formation. They found that these species caused increased rigidity in membrane model systems and that certain proteins can inhibit both the aggregation process and its effect on the membrane. This led to a recent publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1014 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1014 Tue, 26 Mar 2019 Direct observations of the structure and catalytic mechanism of a prototypical kinase enzymeprotein kinase A or PKAwill provide researchers and drug developers with significantly enhanced abilities to understand and treat fatal diseases and neurological disorders such as cancer, diabetes, and cystic fibrosis. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1015 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1015 Tue, 26 Mar 2019 Investigations with neutrons settle scientific dispute about the structure of fluorine. In toothpaste, Teflon, LEDs and medications, it shows its sunny side but elemental fluorine is extremely aggressive and highly toxic. Attempts to determine the crystal structure of solid fluorine using X-rays ended with explosions 50 years ago. A research team has now clarified the actual structure of the fluorine using neutrons from the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Research Neutron Source FRM II. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1013 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1013 Wed, 27 Mar 2019 In a landmark experiment at the Accelerator Laboratory of the Department of Physics JYFL-ACCLAB at University of Jyvskyl, a beam of the short-lived nuclide 85As was produced through nuclear fission. The research group was successful in testing the modular neutron spectrometer MONSTER at JYFL-ACCLAB, a new detector array built by an international collaboration with groups from CIEMAT Spain, VECC India, JYFLHIP Finland, IFIC Spain, and UPC Spain. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1018 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1018 Wed, 17 Apr 2019 Researchers investigate new interactions between gold nanoparticles and cell membranes. Gold nanoparticles have a range of biomedical applications and are an important tool for drug delivery. Factors such as temperature and membrane charge are revealed to play a key role findings that will help scientists better predict how gold nanoparticles behave within the body. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1019 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1019 Wed, 08 May 2019 Precise measurements at the ILL of beta asymmetry rule out neutron decay into exotic dark matter particles.Last year, scientists became rather excited when they thought they might have found evidence for the production of dark matter particles from experiments measuring the lifetime of the neutron one of the two constituents of the atomic nucleus the other is the proton. The neutron is generally stable when bound in atomic nuclei, but in the free state it lasts for just under 15 minutes. Two different kinds of neutron experiments had come up with considerably different lifetimes, and researchers thought that the anomaly might be due to the decay to a dark matter particle contributing to one type of experiment but not to the other. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1020 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1020 Wed, 08 May 2019 For the past 25 years, scientists have been developing fluorescent proteins for bioimaging. Today their diversity covers nearly the whole visible spectrum, including blue, cyan, green, yellow, orange, red, far-red and near infrared, allowing scientists to produce detailed images of various proteins localization within live cells using multicolour labelling.A team of researchers at Institut LaueLangevin ILL have used neutron scattering experiments to study a family of fluorescent proteins called Cyan Fluorescent Proteins CFPs. CFPs are very useful tools for bioimaging as they can be used to produce pictures of live cells - if the CFP is used as a fusion protein, it can reveal information about protein location, and if used as part of a biosensor, it can report on the evolution of various cell parameters pH, calcium concentration says Dr Judith Peters, scientist at ILL and professor at Universit Grenoble Alpes. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1021 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1021 Wed, 08 May 2019 Scientists from Delft University of Technology and Unilever have designed the first shear cell that can be used for testing food samples in both neutron and X-ray scattering experiments. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1022 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1022 Thu, 09 May 2019 A conversion that happens inside a hydrogen molecule has been studied with an unprecedented level of detail, giving an insight into how this conversion can be maximised, with implications for neutron sources, engineering and industry. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1023 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1023 Fri, 10 May 2019 Today, in a collaboration financed by Germanys Federal Ministry of Research, the ILL and the Friedrich-Alexander University FAU Erlangen-Nrnberg have taken a major stride towards the construction of a GaAs-based backscattering spectrometer. The result is a drop in energy resolution to several tens of nano-eV, nearly an order of magnitude better than could ever be attained with silicon crystals. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1024 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1024 Wed, 15 May 2019 He developed the worlds first neutron time-of-flight diffractometer with a 150-meter-long neutron guide at the Atomic Egg in Garching and planned the instruments at the research neutron source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz. Now Erich Steichele has died at the age of 80 near Bad Wrishofen. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1025 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1025 Thu, 16 May 2019 Scientists have used neutron scattering to identify the secret to a metal-organic frameworks MOF ability to efficiently convert chemicals, through a process called catalysis, into new substances. By probing a material known as MOF-808-SO4, the team discovered molecular behavior that causes the catalyst to become less acidic, which could slow down the catalytic process vital in making products such as plastics, fragrances, cosmetics, flame retardants and solvents. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1026 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1026 Fri, 17 May 2019 During this process of understanding what limits proton conduction in existing materials, we hope to also discover some new physics, Ganesh said. Its all related to underlying atomistic mechanisms.To validate the computational results, members of the team conducted a series of complementary experiments that employed pulsed laser deposition, scanning transmission electron microscopy, time-resolved Kelvin probe force microscopy, and atom probe tomography techniques at CNMS, as well as neutron scattering at the Spallation Neutron Source SNS. CNMS, SNS, and the OLCF are all DOE Office of Science User Facilities located at ORNL. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1027 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1027 Sun, 19 May 2019 Exactly how that process works at the microscopic level is not well understood.Answering this question could have a big impact on both plant ecology and agriculture, which is why professors Kathryn and Jonathan Morris from Xavier University are using neutron scattering at the Department of Energys DOEs Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL to observe firsthand how these info-chemicals travel along tiny, pipe-like networks called fungal hyphae. Whether the messages move passively along the outside of those fungal networks or the fungi deliberately locate and absorb info-chemicals for transportation remains unclear. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1028 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1028 Mon, 20 May 2019 Lithium has a large absorption coefficient for neutrons, which means that neutrons passing through a material are highly sensitive to its lithium concentrations, said Ziyang Nie, lead author and graduate student in Koenigs group. We demonstrated we could use neutron radiographs to track in situ lithiation in thin and thick metal oxide cathodes inside battery cells. Because neutrons are highly penetrating, we did not have to build custom cells for the analysis and were able to track the lithium across the entire active region containing both electrodes and electrolyte. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1029 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1029 Tue, 21 May 2019 The team conducted quasi-elastic neutron scattering QENS at ORNL and nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopy at PNNL. Used together, QENS and NMR spectroscopy can provide alternate perspectives on the way atoms reorient and spread throughout a solution. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1030 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1030 Wed, 22 May 2019 Neutrons are ideal for this experiment because they offer researchers an excellent view of matter at the micron scale, which is perfect for investigating chocolates microstructure. And, because neutrons and x-rays complement each other, neutrons are a valuable tool for verifying the results obtained via x-ray scattering at Argonne. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1031 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1031 Wed, 22 May 2019 Solar hydrogen can be produced from water and light in a process called photocatalytic water-splitting and could help to mitigate the impact of climate change, as no fossil fuels are used in its production. It then can be used as a renewable, environmentally friendly energy carrier, such as in hydrogen fuel cells. Nonetheless, it has proved a major scientific challenge to scale-up photocatalytic water-splitting to a stage where it could viably be used to produce hydrogen in enough quantities to revolutionise clean energy. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1032 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1032 Thu, 30 May 2019 American, Chinese and German scientists have found tiny distortions among the otherwise symmetrical atomic order of an iron pnictide superconductor with measurements at the triple axes spectrometer TRISP. They have thus come closer to superconductivity at higher temperatures. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1033 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1033 Fri, 31 May 2019 American, Chinese and German scientists have found tiny distortions among the otherwise symmetrical atomic order of an iron pnictide superconductor with measurements at the triple axes spectrometer TRISP. They have thus come closer to superconductivity at higher temperatures. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1033 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1033 Fri, 31 May 2019 An ORNL-led teams observation of certain crystalline ice phases challenges accepted theories about super-cooled water and non-crystalline ice. Their findings, reported in the journal Nature, will also lead to better understanding of ice and its various phases found on other planets, moons and elsewhere in space. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1034 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1034 Mon, 03 Jun 2019 Graduate student Tong Chen spent weeks creating samples to test in neutron scattering beams. About 20 to 30 1-millimeter squares of iron selenide had to be aligned and glued in place atop each crystal of barium iron arsenide. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1035 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1035 Wed, 05 Jun 2019 Neutrons are good probes of materials like polymer gels, largely because of their sensitivity to hydrogen and its isotope, deuterium. Using a unique technique known as contrast matching, researchers replaced some of the hydrogen atoms in the gel with deuterium, which allowed specific structural components to be highlighted by the neutrons. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1036 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1036 Wed, 12 Jun 2019 Neutron experiments prove that multi-layered functional coatings can be prepared with a simple, single step procedure. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1037 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1037 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 Marialucia Longo and Tobias Schrader at the Jlich Centre for Neutron Science JCNS based at FRM II in Garching, Germany have been designing and testing a crystallization chamber to grow large protein crystals. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1038 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1038 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 Here, the samples are irradiated with cold neutrons. Following the neutron capture, the atomic nuclei of the chemical elements emit characteristic gamma rays. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1039 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1039 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 By adding the new information collected via solution neutron scattering to other data from solution X-ray scattering and NMR spectroscopy, the NIST-Maryland group hopes to get a more comprehensive picture of DNA and RNA structures, as well as to expand avenues for defining molecular structures with neutron-based techniques. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1040 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1040 Wed, 26 Jun 2019 ANSTOs significant neutron scattering capabilities have been extended to fifteen advanced scientific instruments with the official opening of the Spatz neutron reflectometer. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1041 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1041 Wed, 26 Jun 2019 Scientists from The University of Sheffield are studying the layered structure of highly efficient organic thin films for cheaper, more environmentally friendly, solar energy technologies. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1044 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1044 Wed, 10 Jul 2019 The unique properties of neutrons have enabled the study of potential fuel cell materials to understand the transport of oxygen within them and the contribution of ionic charge carriers to the total electrical conductivity. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1045 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1045 Wed, 10 Jul 2019 It was ORNLs world-class neutron sources that drew Johs to the laboratory. He had experienced how powerful a tool neutrons could be while working on his doctorate in biophysics at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, where he studied the structure of apolipoprotein B100, a central component in low density lipoprotein, often called bad cholesterol. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1046 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1046 Wed, 10 Jul 2019 Faster image acquisition captures water exchange dynamics between roots and soil, could be useful for studying hydraulic fracturing and lithium batteries https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1051 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1051 Mon, 23 Sep 2019 Timely for the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements which celebrates the 150th anniversary of Mendeleevs discovery of the periodic table, a European collaboration of chemists and physicists has published the first experimental determination of the ionization potential of the lanthanide element promethium, thus closing the last remaining gap for this fundamental atomic property in the Periodic Table. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1049 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1049 Thu, 26 Sep 2019 ESS celebrated an important scientific milestone, the official handover of the Long Instrument Hall from construction partner, Skanska. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1050 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1050 Thu, 26 Sep 2019 The League of advanced European Neutron Sources LENS held its second General Assembly at Institut Laue-Langevin ILL yesterday, preceded on Tuesday by meetings of its five working groups and the LENS Executive Board. The meetings brought the consortiums operational working groups together with the leaders of the LENS member facilities to advance priority actions for the organisation in the months to come. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1053 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1053 Wed, 23 Oct 2019 ESS has officially inaugurated the data centre infrastructure that will play a vital role in processing the enormous amounts of research data from experiments being conducted here. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1055 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1055 Tue, 29 Oct 2019 As of Tuesday 29th October 2019, the Orphe reactor in Saclay is no longer in operation. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1054 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1054 Wed, 30 Oct 2019 Discovery yields new quantitative description of unusual behavior relevant to materials used in electronics, medicine, telecommunications, and more https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1057 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1057 Fri, 01 Nov 2019 An international team led by New Zealand food scientists at the Riddet Institute has used neutron scattering techniques to characterise the structure of an oil-in-water emulsion commonly used in foods, such as milk, cream, salad dressings and sauces. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1058 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1058 Wed, 20 Nov 2019 Techniques for observing concrete as it sets could facilitate the development of new cements. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1059 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1059 Wed, 27 Nov 2019 One in three people cannot access clean drinking water 1. Moringa seed extracts have been used of centuries to help purify water in regions where clean water is not available.Researchers have used neutrons and X-rays to identify and characterise key proteins underlying the unique water purification properties of Moringa seeds. This information may allow better exploitation of this abundant resource. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1060 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1060 Thu, 28 Nov 2019 The accumulation of undesired biomaterials onto surfaces biofouling is a problem in both industry and healthcare1. One of three main paths in marine anti-fouling involves hydrophilic materials that bind water strongly 2. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1061 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1061 Thu, 28 Nov 2019 From tires to clothes to shampoo, many ubiquitous products are made with polymers, large chain-like molecules made of smaller sub-units, called monomers, bonded together. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Delaware and University of Pennsylvania, with primary support from the U.S. Department of Energy Biomolecular Materials Program, has created a new fundamental unit of polymers that could usher in a new era of materials discovery. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1062 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1062 Fri, 29 Nov 2019 How pure do atoms vibrate in a metal Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research and the Technical University of Munich TUM have investigated this question with the help of neutrons and theoretical calculations. Their results, which also have effects on the calculation of thermal conductivities, have now been published in the renowned journal Physical Review Letters. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1063 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1063 Mon, 02 Dec 2019 The primary protein comprising silk is fibroin, and in the last century, it has been intensely studied for a variety of advanced applications beyond luxurious fabrics. Some of the most exciting current research is exploring the potential of this protein in a range of applications using neutrons. Research that is taking place at the Institut Laue-LangevinILL, the worlds flagship neutron science facility. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1064 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1064 Fri, 06 Dec 2019 A breakthrough in understanding how the quasi-particles known as magnetic monopoles behave could lead to the development of new technologies to replace electric charges. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1065 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1065 Fri, 06 Dec 2019 Three neutron science research reactors in Europe have ceased operations in 2019. The League of advanced European Neutron Sources, LENS, and the European Neutron Scattering Association, ENSA, warn of a neutron gap that could impact scientific research across multiple fields in physics, materials science, chemistry, biology, medical science and engineering. Together, LENS and ENSA are working on a new vision to maintain Europes leading position in neutron science. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1066 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1066 Mon, 23 Dec 2019 An international team of scientists, led by the University of Manchester, has developed a metal-organic framework, or MOF, material that provides a selective, fully reversible and repeatable capability to capture a toxic air pollutant, nitrogen dioxide, produced by combusting diesel and other fossil fuels. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1067 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1067 Fri, 03 Jan 2020 Bose-Einstein condensates are macroscopic quantum phases of matter which appear only under very particular conditions. Learning more about these phases of matter could help researchers develop a better understanding of fundamental quantum behaviors and possibly contribute to future quantum technology. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1068 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1068 Tue, 07 Jan 2020 Researchers led by the University of Manchester have designed a catalyst that converts biomass into fuel sources with remarkably high efficiency and offers new possibilities for manufacturing advanced renewable materials. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1069 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1069 Fri, 10 Jan 2020 Drinkers will soon be cheering all the way to the bar thanks to a team of scientists who have taken a big step forward in solving the puzzle of how to make the perfect head of beer.Lead researcher Dr Richard Campbell from The University of Manchester says his findings solve a long-standing mystery related to the lifetime of foams. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1071 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1071 Fri, 10 Jan 2020 A team from the University of Manchester, ISIS and Syngenta, have been using a combination of analytical techniques in order to study the efficiency of pesticides in the development of agri-sprays, which are commonly used in the agricultural industry. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1070 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1070 Wed, 15 Jan 2020 The ice we blend into our frozen drinks is a complicated compound, riddled with strange molecular inconsistencies scientists still struggle to understand. Exploring the physics behind the odd microstructure of water-ice may help us learn more about other seemingly unrelated advanced materials and their quantum states. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1073 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1073 Wed, 15 Jan 2020 After an involuntary interruption of 10 months, the FRM II will again supply neutrons to its users from science, industry and medicine from today, 14 January. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1074 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1074 Wed, 15 Jan 2020 Since January, Prof. Dr. Martin Mller has been the new director at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum MLZ, succeeding Prof. Dr. Stephan Frster in the role. A materials physicist, he now represents the Helmholtz partners Forschungszentrum Jlich FZJ and Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht HZG in the Scientific Directorate of the MLZ. By rotation, Martin Mller will also be the spokesman of the directorate for a period of two years. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1132 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1132 Fri, 31 Jan 2020 An international team of researchers has discovered the hydrogen atoms in a metal hydride material are much more tightly spaced than had been predicted for decadesa feature that could possibly facilitate superconductivity at or near room temperature and pressure. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1077 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1077 Thu, 06 Feb 2020 Artificial membranes have been used for small- and large-scale industrial processes since the middle of the twentieth century, yet their inefficiency can make some processes relatively slow and expensive. Scientists have long sought to develop synthetic membranes that could match the selectivity and high-speed transport offered by their natural counterparts. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1078 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1078 Mon, 02 Mar 2020 The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Research Neutron Source receives around 350,000 euros in funding from the EU to continue its cooperation with large-scale Russian research institutions. The project CREMLINplus was officially launched in Hamburg at the end of February. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1079 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1079 Wed, 11 Mar 2020 Freeze drying has provided us with tasty dried fruits in muesli, long-life yoghurt cultures and many other important products. For the first time, using neutron beams from the Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz FRM II research neutron source, a team of scientists has now been able to show us the drying process in detail. The process engineering has thus gained a method of testing theoretical models in practice. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1080 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1080 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 Artwork does not last forever. This is particularly true for paintings, which are appreciated for their visual appearance, but inevitably deteriorate through physical processes such as the deposition of air-borne dust and soot, oxidation, and attack by free radicals. As a result, after 50 to 100 years, a once-colourful painting that was exposed to city air may have become uniformly brown, or black, or white, and its protective varnish may have become opaque, cracked and irregular. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1082 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1082 Tue, 24 Mar 2020 An international research team led by scientists from City University of Hong Kong CityU has recently discovered that high-entropy alloys HEAs exhibit exceptional mechanical properties at ultra-low temperatures due to the coexistence of multiple deformation mechanisms. Their discovery may hold the key to designing new structural materials for applications at low temperatures. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1086 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1086 Wed, 01 Apr 2020 The Swiss Federal Council already elected him as PSIs new Director last November. On 1 April, Christian Regg took over the helm at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in difficult times. The coronavirus pandemic is also a challenge for large organisations and employers like PSI. However, PSIs unique research facilities also offer opportunities for researching the virus and thus finding ways to combat it. Regg reveals his plans for the future of the Institute here. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1089 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1089 Wed, 01 Apr 2020 As with HIV before it, Europes advanced neutron sources will make an essential contribution to the fight against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1087 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1087 Fri, 03 Apr 2020 Scientists seek to use quantum materials those that have correlated order at the subatomic level for electronic devices, quantum computers, and superconductors. Quantum materials owe many of their properties to the physics that is occurring on the smallest scales, physics that is fully quantum mechanical. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1088 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1088 Wed, 08 Apr 2020 The magnetic transition of troilite causes instabilities in the space metals structure that transforms it from a conductor to an insulator. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1091 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1091 Fri, 24 Apr 2020 Spinels are oxides with chemical formulas of the type AB2O4, where A is a divalent metal cation positive ion, B is a trivalent metal cation, and O is oxygen. Spinels are valued for their beauty, which derives from the molecules spatial configurations, but spinels in which the trivalent cation B consists of the element chrome Cr are interesting for a reason that has nothing to do with aesthetics: They have magnetic properties with an abundance of potential technological applications. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1092 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1092 Tue, 05 May 2020 Spin ice is a recently discovered state of matter, made of a macroscopic landscape of degenerate magnetic configurations due to the conjunction of strong Ising moments, frustrated network connectivity and ferromagnetic interactions. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1093 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1093 Thu, 21 May 2020 He never liked to be the centre of attention and yet everything revolves around him one last time: Prof. Dr. Albert Steyerl, the inventor of the neutron turbine, died on 2 May at the age of 81. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1094 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1094 Tue, 02 Jun 2020 Hydrogen as an energy carrier will play an important role in the energy turnaround. But to produce it from water in a CO2-neutral way by electrolysis, it needs a lot of electricity. Neutrons help to study materials that can reduce the electricity consumption in this reaction. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1095 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1095 Mon, 06 Jul 2020 Russias BP Konstantinova Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics has announced a tender for the development of a core design for the PIK research reactor in Gatchina. The aim of the project is to provide nuclear fuel for the PIK research reactor. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1096 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1096 Fri, 10 Jul 2020 The synthesis of stable and cost-effective new materials is paramount for the development of advanced technologies. At the same time, new and exciting insights can be made about material properties to better inform their development in the future. In a new study published in Carbon, researchers from the Institut Laue Langevin ILL together with colleagues from Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia, and research centres around Europe used instruments at the ILL to test a new carbon-based material, named D-96-7, and found exciting diffusion capabilities that may have applications in the world of sustainable energy provision. Wed, 15 Jul 2020 Aluminum blanks cannot be produced without residual stress. This means that the material warps during subsequent machining, which leads to inaccuracies. This is particularly problematic in delicate applications, such as aircraft construction. Neutron measurements at the MLZ showed that a new process is capable of reducing residual stresses almost completely. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1098 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1098 Sat, 18 Jul 2020 When ultrafine magnetic particles are exposed to an external magnetic field, their magnetic core grows in a previously unexpected way. This was observed by a team of scientists from the University of Cologne UoC, Forschungszentrum Jlich and the Institut Laue-Langevin, by employing polarized neutron scattering. The study Field-Dependence of Magnetic Disorder in Nanoparticles has been published in the journal Physical Review X. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1100 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1100 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 Pick your poison. It can be deadly for good reasons such as protecting crops from harmful insects or fighting parasite infection as medicineor for evil as a weapon for bioterrorism. Or, in extremely diluted amounts, it can be used to enhance beauty. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1101 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1101 Tue, 11 Aug 2020 Protein aggregation into amyloid superstructures is the molecular manifestation of a large variety of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimers and Parkinsons. Evidence is increasing that transient on-pathway oligomers are actually the toxic species, such that time-resolved monitoring of protein aggregation is highly desirable. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1102 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1102 Wed, 19 Aug 2020 A UCLA-led team that discovered the first intrinsic ferromagnetic topological insulator a quantum material that could revolutionize next-generation electronics used neutrons at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to help verify their finding. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1103 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1103 Mon, 24 Aug 2020 Supercapacitors are up-and-coming, energy storage devices, often used to store energy from renewable energy sources like wind turbines where power is intermittent. They combine the best of batteries and traditional capacitors like batteries, they are able to store lots of energy but are faster to charge and are not made from toxic materials, and like capacitors, charge is accumulated through the adsorption and desorption of ions from an electrolyte on the surface of an electrode, which also makes it lightweight and low cost. Getting this right is important as wind farms now provide 14 of the European Unions power https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1104 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1104 Sat, 29 Aug 2020 Scientists at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum MLZ use imaging techniques with neutrons to study specially bonded steel components. With their results they can improve the welding process for oil and gas pipelines and turbines. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1105 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1105 Mon, 31 Aug 2020 Slovenias National Institute of Chemistry NIC joins the worlds flagship neutron science facility, the Institut Laue-Langevin ILL, as a Scientific Member, opening the door for Slovenias scientists and industry to cutting-edge research with neutrons, to drive innovation and tackle global challenges. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1106 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1106 Fri, 04 Sep 2020 It is very hard to take a photo of a hummingbird flapping its wings 50 times per second. The exposure time has to be much shorter than the characteristic time scale of the wing beat, otherwise you will only see a colorful blur. A similar problem is encountered in solid-state physics, where the aim is to determine the magnetic properties of a material. The magnetic moment at a certain location can change very quickly. Therefore, researchers require measuring methods that are fast enough to resolve these fluctuations. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1107 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1107 Mon, 07 Sep 2020 The world of physics is in uproar as a Hungarian team is said to have discovered a yet unknown particle with puzzling properties. This would not only go beyond the current understanding of physics but also bring in reach a decades-long dream in physics: An approach to dark matter. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1108 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1108 Mon, 14 Sep 2020 SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for the disease COVID-19, is infecting the world at a rapid rate. Understanding how this infection works at the molecular level could help experts discover ways to moderate or stop the spread. Fri, 18 Sep 2020 Materials scientists at Duke University have uncovered an atomic mechanism that makes certain thermoelectric materials incredibly efficient near high-temperature phase transitions. The information will help fill critical knowledge gaps in the computational modeling of such materials, potentially allowing researchers to discover new and better options for technologies that rely on transforming heat into electricity. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1110 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1110 Mon, 21 Sep 2020 Nanoscale vortices known as skyrmions can be created in many magnetic materials. For the first time, researchers at PSI have managed to create and identify antiferromagnetic skyrmions with a unique property: critical elements inside them are arranged in opposing directions. Scientists have succeeded in visualising this phenomenon using neutron scattering. Their discovery is a major step towards developing potential new applications, such as more efficient computers. The results of the research are published today in the journal Nature. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1111 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1111 Mon, 28 Sep 2020 The cell membrane, the wall-like boundary between the cell interior and its outside environment, is primarily made up of two kinds of biomolecules: lipids and proteins. Different lipid species closely pack together to form a double layer, or bilayer, the membranes fundamental structure, while proteins are embedded within or attached to the bilayer. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1112 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1112 Fri, 02 Oct 2020 Boron neutron capture therapy BNCT, a technique that deposits highly targeted radiation into tumour cells, was first investigated as a cancer treatment back in the 1950s. But the field remains small, with only 1700 to 1800 patients treated to date worldwide. This may be about to change. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1113 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1113 Thu, 08 Oct 2020 The ILL has now implemented the best neutron polariser in the world it is more compact and cheaper than others because of its size and able to reach nearly 100 polarisation. It is set to be implemented at a number of facilities in the world to create better particle physics experiments to improve our understanding of the Universe. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1114 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1114 Mon, 12 Oct 2020 During the second reactor cycle in 2020, the ThALES team and SCICS at ILL in Grenoble, France commissioned and tested a self-learning algorithm developed by the CAMERA team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley Lab. For the first time, an algorithm took control over the measurement process, without human intervention. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1115 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1115 Fri, 16 Oct 2020 The Analytical Research Infrastructures of Europe ARIE joins cross-border, multidisciplinary forces to offer Europe a strong and effective weapon against the current COVID-19 challenge and other potential viral and microbial threats. The MLZ is represented by Dr. Astrid Schneidewind from Forschungszentrum Jlich, who heads the working group Adaptation to climate change, including societal transformation. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1116 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1116 Wed, 21 Oct 2020 Understanding, manipulating and exploiting the intriguing magnetic behaviour of a synthetic crystalline material called yttrium iron garnet YIG could open the door to the next, advanced generation of communication and information-processing devices. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1118 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1118 Fri, 23 Oct 2020 Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is one of the most abundant organic compounds on Earth. Like other fossil fuels, it can be captured, stored, and used for heating buildings, powering natural gas vehicles, cooking food, and in many industrial processes. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1117 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1117 Mon, 26 Oct 2020 Every year, up to 1,200 guest scientists from all over the world come to perform measurements at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Research Neutron Source FRM II. Technical University Munich TUM and Forschungszentrum Jlich are now expanding the research capacities of the worlds most versatile neutron source with two new buildings providing a total of 4,550 square meters of floor space for laboratories, offices and workshops. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1119 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1119 Wed, 04 Nov 2020 To better understand how the novel coronavirus behaves and how it can be stopped, scientists have completed a three-dimensional map that reveals the location of every atom in an enzyme molecule critical to SARS-CoV-2 reproduction. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1121 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1121 Wed, 04 Nov 2020 Nine seconds. An eternity in some scientific experiments; an unimaginably small amount in the grand scheme of the universe. And just long enough to confound nuclear physicists studying the lifetime of the neutron. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1120 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1120 Fri, 06 Nov 2020 They look like microscopic bottle brushes: Polymers with a spine and tufts of side arms. This molecular design gives them unusual abilities: For example, they can bind active ingredients and release them again when the temperature changes. With the help of neutrons at the MLZ, a research team from the Technical University of Munich TUM has now succeeded to unveil the changes in the internal structure in course of the process. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1122 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1122 Fri, 13 Nov 2020 Portuguese scientists have analyzed lichens from areas with traditional charcoal production for the first time with the help of the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz FRM II of the Technical University of Munich TUM. Lichens located near areas of charcoal production contained more than twice the concentration of phosphorus, which is generated during the combustion process. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1123 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1123 Fri, 20 Nov 2020 Recent experiments jointly conducted at the Institut Laue-Langevin ILL alongside three other laboratories around the world have revealed a surprisingly complex landscape of three different coexisting shapes in 64 Ni, a semi-magic nucleus thought to be purely spherical up to now. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1124 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1124 Mon, 30 Nov 2020 East Tennessee occupies a special place in nuclear history. In 1943, the worlds first continuously operating reactor began operating on land that would become the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1125 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1125 Mon, 07 Dec 2020 The crystalline solid BaTiS3 barium titanium sulfide is terrible at conducting heat, and it turns out that a wayward titanium atom that exists in two places at the same time is to blame. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1126 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1126 Fri, 11 Dec 2020 Batteries contain chemicals that store and release electrical energy at relatively slow rates compared to capacitors, which are often used in applications requiring power to be delivered rapidly. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1127 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1127 Mon, 04 Jan 2021 Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute and the Department of Chemistry at University of Copenhagen, have recently designed a porous polymer aiming for the capture of small molecules. Ammonia is a toxic gas widely used as a reagent in industrial processes or resulting from agricultural activities, causing irritation in the throat, eye damage and even death to humans. Being able to capture it with this new method could have huge health benefits. The result is now published in ACS Applied Materials Interfaces. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1128 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1128 Fri, 08 Jan 2021 In the quest for advanced vehicles with higher energy efficiency and ultra-low emissions, Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are accelerating a research engine that gives scientists and engineers an unprecedented view inside the atomic-level workings of combustion engines in real time. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1129 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1129 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 At the end of 2019, the neutron source used for materials research at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin HZB was shut down as planned. Now the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum MLZ in Munich is taking over two scientific instruments from the HZB. The Federal Ministry of Science and Research BMBF is funding the relocation and adaptation with 5.62 million euros. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1130 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1130 Wed, 13 Jan 2021 ANSTO contributed to a large international collaboration on advanced sodium ion batteries led by French researchers, which provides a direction for the design of high-performing sodium ion electrodes. Advanced sodium ion batteries could be used for large scale energy storage https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1131 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1131 Mon, 18 Jan 2021 The Mantid project provides a framework that supports high-performance computing and visualisation of materials science data. It has been created to manipulate and analyse neutron scattering and muon spectroscopy data, but could be applied to many other techniques. The framework is open source and supported on multiple target platforms Windows, Linux, Mac. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1133 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1133 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 In December 2020, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was approved for use across the EU, marking a crucial step forward in the fight against coronavirus. The development of this COVID-19 vaccine built on important research that was undertaken by Mainz-based biotechnology company, BioNTech, in collaboration with the Jlich Center for Neutron Science JCNS. Using neutron scattering instruments operated by the JCNS at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Center in Garching, researchers investigated new approaches for the packaging and delivery of the mRNA. Such experiments provide important insights into the relationship between structural properties, biological activity and the vaccine production process, which will help to advance the development of RNA therapeutics and vaccines.Find out more about how neutron scattering experiments at JCNS have contributed to the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1134 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1134 Mon, 15 Mar 2021 Research with neutrons provides unique insights into materials and phenomena that cannot be gained using other methods. From this autumn, a groundbreaking project will ensure the most effective use of the research potential of neutron methods. Funding has now been secured by Jlich neutron researchers together with partners from the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum MLZ. The aim of the Global Neutron Scientists GNeuS project is to train a new generation of highly skilled neutron scientists. The EU is funding the project over its five-year duration with 3.3 million. The three leading partners are investing a further 5 million. Within the framework of the project, 45 postdocs will for the first time be able to take part in a 24-month structured, interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral international training programme. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1135 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1135 Tue, 23 Mar 2021 Identifying, understanding, and predicting fundamental magnetic interactions in materials is an essential step toward their utilization in novel devices. One of these basic interactions is the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction DMI, a type of coupling between neighbouring spins that tilts them slightly when they would otherwise tend to align. Although this DMI-induced canting is usually modest, it can lead to small net magnetic moments in weak ferromagnets and its direction has a significant impact on spintronic applications and topological materials. In a current paper in Physical Review X, an international team of researchers led by neutron scientists from Forschungszentrum Jlich and RWTH Aachen University present polarized neutron diffraction PND as an efficient technique for determining the absolute direction of the DMI in bulk materials. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1136 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1136 Mon, 19 Apr 2021 PaN-learning is a Photon and Neutron e-learning platform, which aims to bring free education and training to scientists and students. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1137 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1137 Fri, 02 Jul 2021 Scientists from Jlich, together with colleagues from Germany, France and China, have discovered a new property in quantum materials offering great potential for novel technical applications. It took the 17-member team a considerable amount of dedicated effort to synthesize and characterize so-called two-dimensional materials, that could one day take on a wide variety of functions in atomically thin circuits based on the future technology of magnonics. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1138 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1138 Mon, 13 Sep 2021 Mag2Pol is an easy-to-use program for the analysis of X-ray and polarized neutron diffraction data. The latest release introduces Rietveld refinement and further tools for a user-friendly analysis of powder data. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1139 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1139 Wed, 06 Oct 2021 NICOS is the link between the scientific instruments and visiting researchers during neutron experiments. The software, originally developed at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Center MLZ, is now in demand worldwide and is increasingly expanding its user community. https://mlz-garching.de/englisch/news-und-press/news-articles/software-from-garching-goes-global.html?back=yes https://mlz-garching.de/englisch/news-und-press/news-articles/software-from-garching-goes-global.html?back=yes Sat, 01 Jan 2022 Mobility is a fundamental ingredient of our present society and engages researchers from a wide range of disciplines worldwide. This years MLZ Conference Neutrons for Mobility brings together experts from mobility and neutron research. From 31.05. - 03.06.2022, they will meet in Lenggries, Germany, to share experiences on neutron methods and discuss sustainability and energy efficiency in the transportation of the future. Participants can register as Early Bird until 31.03.2022. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1141 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1141 Tue, 31 May 2022 Mag2Pol is an easy-to-use software for the analysis of X-ray and polarized neutron diffraction data. The latest release introduces magnetic space groups and magnetic superspace groups as well as many useful crystallographic tools. A series of online introductory courses starts on 10 October 2022. https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1142 https://neutronsources.org/index.php?article_id=1142 Tue, 04 Oct 2022