Institut Laue–Langevin

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45°12′22″N 5°41′34″E / 45.206239°N 5.692774°E / 45.206239; 5.692774

Institut Laue-Langevin

The Institut Laue–Langevin (ILL) is an internationally financed scientific facility, situated on the Polygone Scientifique in Grenoble, France. It is one of the world centres for research using neutrons. Founded in 1967 and honouring the physicists Max von Laue and Paul Langevin, the ILL provides one of the most intense neutron sources in the world and the most intense continuous neutron flux in the world in the moderator region: 1.5×1015 neutrons per second per cm2, with a thermal power of typically 58.3 MW.[citation needed]

The ILL neutron scattering facilities allow the analysis of the structure of conducting and magnetic materials for future electronic devices, the measurement of stresses in mechanical materials. It also allows investigations into

nanoscale science.[citation needed
]

History

Water input for ESRF, CNRS and ILL on the river Drac
Inside the reactor hall

The institute was founded by France and Germany, with the United Kingdom becoming the third major partner in 1973. These partner states provide, through

proteins. [citation needed
]

The high-flux

gamma rays
produced by nuclear reactions in the reactor core are also used by the instrument suite.

In 2000 began the introduction of new instruments and instrument upgrades. The first phase has already resulted in a 17-fold gains in performance. The second phase started in 2008: it comprises the building of 5 new instruments, the upgrade of 4 others, and the installation of 3 new neutron guides.[citation needed]

EPN Science Campus

The ILL shares its site, the 'epn science campus',[1] with other institutions including the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the Unit for Viral Host Cell Interactions (UVHCI). The French Institut de Biologie Structural (IBS) joined the campus in 2013.

Participants

Institut Laue Langevin Map

The ILL is governed by its Associates.[2]

Associate status and "Scientific Membership" [3]
Country Time Status
France 1967- Associate
Germany 1967- Associate
United Kingdom 1974- Associate
Spain 1987- Scientific Membership
Switzerland 1988- Scientific Membership
Austria 1990- Scientific Membership
Italy 1997- Scientific Membership
Czechia 1999- Scientific Membership
Sweden 2005- Scientific Membership
Hungary 2005-2013 Scientific Membership
Belgium 2006- Scientific Membership
Poland 2006- Scientific Membership
Denmark 2009- Scientific Membership
Slovakia 2009- Scientific Membership
India 2011-2014 Scientific Membership
Slovenia 2020- Scientific Membership

Applications research

In 2019, researchers unravelled information about a protein causing progressive diseases. [4]

In summer 2016 the Institut Laue–Langevin demonstrated that a molecule called

RMS Titanic to survive the osmotic pressure that salt water causes on their membranes.[5]

Awards and recognitions

The physicist

Michael Kosterlitz and David J. Thouless for their work on the transitions of topological phases in the material.[6][7]

Rudolf Mossbauer, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1961, succeeded Heinz Maier-Leibnitz
in 1972 as the director of the institute.

The physicist

Philippe Nozieres, who worked at the institute from 1972 until his retirement, received the Wolf Prize in 1985, together with Conyers Herring, for their major contributions to the fundamental theory of solids, especially the behaviour of electrons in metals.[8]

Techniques

See also

References

  1. ^ epn-campus.eu
  2. ^ "An international partnership for science".
  3. ^ "An international partnership for science".
  4. PMID 30804345
    .
  5. ^ laboratoryequipment.com, September 6, 2016, Extremophile Bacteria’ Will Eat Away Wreck of the Titanic by 2030.
  6. ^ nytimes October 4, 2016, 3 Who Studied Unusual States of Matter Win Nobel Prize in Physics.
  7. ^ "ill.eu October 4, 2016, Congratulations to the 2016 Physics Nobel Prize laureates !". Archived from the original on October 22, 2016. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
  8. .

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