News
The SFN and the 2FDN wish you a wonderful summer! Don’t forget to register for the Neutron Scattering Days by 13 July!
- Journées de la Diffusion Neutronique 2026
For its 34th edition, the Journées de la Diffusion Neutronique will take place at the Domaine Lou Capitelle, near the beautiful village of Vogüé in the Ardèche, from 5 to 8 October 2026. The conference will focus on soft matter, condensed matter, magnetism, biology, the environment and instrumentation. The nuclear fuel cycle will be the focus of a special session during the conference. Information, registration and submission of contributions here.
The deadline for registration and abstract submission is July 13, 2026. - Calls for proposals: fast-track routes!
The 2FDN is offering two new ways to access beamtime:- Neutron Night (experiments under standard conditions on SAM and SANS-LLB): rolling call; please send a one-paragraph proposal containing the following essential information: name(s) of sample(s), chemical composition, and any potential risks to federation.neutron@neel.cnrs.fr.
- Rolling call (full proposals): there is currently time available on several instruments, typically for 1 or 2 experiments on D1B and IN22. The 2FDN is opening a rolling call for proposals for these instruments. Please submit your proposals by 31 July for autumn measurements. Submit via Phoenix.
Science News of the month
Toroidicity as a route towards non-volatile quaternary memory in antiferromagnets.
Researchers from the ILL, the CEA and international partners have, for the first time, demonstrated a quaternary non-volatile memory in a bulk antiferromagnetic material, the orthophosphate LiNi₀.₈Fe₀.₂PO₄. Using spherical neutron polarimetry, they identified and controlled four distinct magnetic domains using electric and magnetic fields. This approach exploits toroidal structure to pave the way for spintronic devices with high storage density and low energy consumption.
Job vacancies
If you have a job vacancy, please do send it to us and we’ll publicise it.
- The CNRS has published two job vacancies for a “junior professorship (CPJ)”:
– the first one, entitled Expériences Innovantes sur les Nouvelles Sources Neutron Pulsées (InnovSON), to carry out research that highlights the unique potential of neutron scattering, with two possible host laboratories: the Léon Brillouin Laboratory (LLB) à Saclay et the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides (LPS) at Orsay.
– the second one, entitled Physique expérimentale pour les matériaux amorphes (MatAmorph), which mentions the possible use of large scale facilities, in one of the following laboratories: Laboratoire Surface du verre et interfaces at Aubervilliers, Institut de Physique de Rennes, Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie at Paris, and Laboratoire Charles Coulomb at Montpellier. - A postdoctoral position is available within the Science Division / Neutron Battery Hub (réf 26/28)
- A postdoctoral position is available at the Laboratoire Léon Brillouin about stabilization and drying of water-in-water emulsions.
Upcoming events
See also https://neutronsources.org/calendar.html.
- Polarized Neutrons for condensed Matter Investigations (PNCMI) August 31-September 4, 2026, Saragosse (Espagne).
- JCNS Laboratory Course on Neutron Scattering 07–18 Septembre 7 to 18, at Jülich (Germany) and Grenoble (France).
- European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS-2026) Septembre 6-11, 2026 at Granada (Spain).
- Journées de la Diffusion Neutronique (JdN-2026) 0ctober 5-8, 2026. Domaine Lou Capitelle, Ardèche. Deadline for abstract submission: July 13, 2026
- Journées de la Matière Condensée October 26-30, 2026, Toulouse.
- ESS-ILL User Meeting 2026 November 18-20, 2026, Lund, Suède. Deadline for abstract submission: September 7, 2026
- Matériaux 2026 November 16-10, 2026, Grenoble.
- International SISN Neutron Science Conference (SISNSC 27), from 18 to 21 January 2027, Firenze (Italy). Deadline for abstract submission: October 2, 2026.
- European Conference on Neutron Scattering 2027 (ECNS 2027) June 27- July 1, 2027, Grenoble.
Publications of the month
Please let us know if there are any recent publications that we may have missed in our research. We will add them.
- Qualitative Evaluation of the Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy in Spinel Ferrite Nanoparticles Using Polarized Neutron Powder Diffraction
Golosovsky, Igor V. and Kibalin, Iurii A. and Liguori, Deborah and Muzzi, Beatrice and Roca, Alejandro G. and Lelievre-Berna, Eddy and Puente-Orench, Ines and Gukasov, Arsen and Nogues, Josep and Lopez-Ortega, Alberto
SMALL
- Magnetic Anisotropy Vectors and Mixing of Spin-States Across Spin Transition in [}MnIII(pyrol)3(tren)] Explored
Pal, Pikesh and Kibalin, Iurii and Goukassov, Arsen and Hansen, Thomas C. and Lelievre-Berna, Eddy and Garcia, Yann and Chaboussant, Gregory
MAGNETOCHEMISTRY
- Temperature dependent magnetic and structural properties of Al substituted nanostructured hexaferrites with large coercive fields
Maltoni, Pierfrancesco and Dokala, Ravi K. and Pramanik, Prativa and Araujo, Rafael and Edvinsson, Tomas and Ivanov, Sergey A. and Almqvist, Bjarne and Varvaro, Gaspare and Capobianchi, Aldo and Yaacoub, Nader and Hervoches, Charles and Martinelli, Alberto and Pullar, Robert C. and Peddis, Davide and Mathieu, Roland
ACTA MATERIALIA
- Ground state magnetic structure of Mn3Sn
Cederholm, Jeppe Jon and Xu, Zhian and Guo, Yanfeng and Ovesen, Martin and Olsen, Thomas and Krighaar, Kristine M. L. and Knekna, Chrystalla and Soh, Jian Rui and Lee, Youngro and Qureshi, Navid and Velamazan, Jose Alberto Rodriguez and Ressouche, Eric and Boothroyd, Andrew T. and Jacobsen, Henrik
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
- Complex Magnetic Interactions in Geometrically Frustrated TbOF
Witte, Pim and Sheptyakov, Denis and Lhotel, Elsa and Artrith, Nongnuch and de Hoogh, Robin and Perversi, Giuditta and Lefmann, Kim and Kamminga, Machteld E.
CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
- Order-by-disorder from Schwinger bosons in a frustrated honeycomb ferromagnet
Ralko, Arnaud and Merino, Jaime
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
- Metamagnetic transitions in Ba2LnFeO5 (Ln = Tb, Dy, Ho, Yb): Spin-flip processes in single or dual easy-axis systems
Hardy, V. and Guillou, F. and Caignaert, V. and Veillon, F. and Breard, Y. and Raveau, B. and Wilhelm, F. and Rogalev, A. and Gonano, B.
PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS
- Enhanced Coercivity Driven by Spin Reorientation in CuCoFe2O5 High-Pressure Oxide
Solaiappan, Leelashree and Ritter, Clemens and Mentre, Olivier and Arevalo-Lopez, Angel M.
CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
- Insights into Friction in Carbon Nanotubes: Guest-Host Interactions and Temperature-Driven Pinning and Unpinning in Nanopeapods
Bousige, Colin and Launois, Pascale and Ollivier, Jacques and Cristiglio, Viviana and Rols, Stephane
ACS NANO
- A new cation- and vacancy-ordered brownmillerite in the Ba-In-Fe-O system revealing hidden order in its cubic counterpart
Ceretti, Monica and Cuello, Gabriel J. and Sheptyakov, Denis and Marsicano, Anna and Paulus, Werner
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
- Stabilization of a nonsuperconducting, orthorhombic phase by overhydrogenating LaFeSiH
Hansen, M. F. and Lepoittevin, C. and Vaney, J. -B. and Boullay, P. and Nassif, V. and Sulpice, A. and Mayaffre, H. and Julien, M. -H. and Tence, S. and Toulemonde, P.
PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS
- Activation engineered Sr rich Ruddlesden-Popper oxides for robust SOFC and dry reforming catalysis
Bahout, Mona and Nguyen, Thi Thuy Duyen and Quenard, Elodie and Hansen, Thomas C. and Dorcet, Vincent and Araque, Marcia and Paofai, Serge and Dumait, Noee and La Salle, Annie Le Gal and Joubert, Olivier
NEXT ENERGY
- Multimodal Structure Solution Unravels Correlated Disorder Promoting Ionic Migration in Silicate Sodium-Ion Electrolytes
Fernandez-Carrion, Alberto J. and Xu, Hankun and Ming, Xing and Rakhmatullin, Aydar and Li, Cheng and Wang, Jinpeng and Porcher, Florence and Ma, Xiangdong and Zhang, Xueting and Pitcher, Michael J. and Allix, Mathieu and Kuang, Xiaojun
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
- Mechanistic Insights into Li+ Transport Enabled by Isolated Sulfur Species in Li3PS4 Glasses
Pawelko, Jakub and Rocquefelte, Xavier and Tetenoire, Auguste and Le Coq, David and Calvez, Laurent and Furet, Eric
ACS MATERIALS LETTERS
- The impact of dendrites and related compositional fluctuations on hydrogen absorption thermodynamics in bcc multi-principal element alloys
Enblom, Veronica and Maccari, Fernando and Scheibel, Franziska and Keith, Aaron and Stavila, Vitalie and Zlotea, Claudia and Gutfleisch, Oliver and Henry, Paul F. and Sahlberg, Martin
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
- Discovery of a low-density filled-ice phase in nitrogen hydrate at high pressure.
Berni, Selene and Espert, Sophie and Di Cataldo, Simone and Tobie, Gabriel and Le Menn, Erwan and Hansen, Thomas C and Bove, Livia Eleonora
Commun Chem
- Revealing nanostructure-driven oxidative protection in thiourea-functionalized sPEEK hybrid membranes for PEM fuel cells
Tougne, Claire and Daoudi, Meriem and Ferri, Evelise and Mareau, Vincent H. and Dufaud, Veronique and Santini, Catherine and Espuche, Eliane and Lottin, Olivier and Perrin, Jean-Christophe and Dillet, Jerome and El Kaddouri, Assma and Porcar, Lionel and Gonon, Laurent and Mendil-Jakani, Hakima
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
- Mechanistic insights from dynamic structural changes of model bacterial cytoplasmic membranes challenged by Gemini surfactant octenidine
McDowell, Oliver J. and Matthews, Lauren and Bersenev, Egor A. and Kenton, Charlotte and Wlodek, Magdalena and Mahmoudi, Najet and Fong, Rebecca J. and Perez-Prat, Eva M. and Briscoe, Wuge H.
JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
- Cold spraying of mechanically alloyed compositionally complex Co18Cr24Fe14Ni33V11</su b> alloy: Processability, microstructure, mechanical properties, and residual stress evaluation
Boruah, Dibakor and Sharma, Deepak and Luzin, Vladimir and Ameen, Ahamed and Bakir, Ali Alperen and Kamal, Marzuk and Paul, Shiladitya
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING
- Quantifying sorptivity using the contact sponge method: an improved calculation method validated by classical capillary rise experiments and neutron radiography
Derluyn, H. and Desarnaud, J. and Vandevoorde, D. and Dewanckele, J. and Boone, M. N. and Peetermans, S. and Lehmann, E. and Viles, H. and Cnudde, V.
MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES