News
- New Website for Experiment Proposal Submission
Submission of experiment proposals on the 2FDN CRG instruments will now be done through the new Phoenix website, starting with the next call (deadline March 15): please create an account on the new Phoenix portal using the same email address you use for the ILL User Club. - FAN 2026
The Annual Neutron Training (FAN) will take place at ILL Grenoble from June 23 to 25, 2026. This is a practical training course (lectures and lab sessions), organized by 2FDN on its CRG instruments, in collaboration with ILL. The training is intended for researchers at any level (PhD students, postdocs, and more broadly, any researcher) wishing to get started or familiarize themselves with experimental techniques used in neutron scattering for condensed matter. It will include a “hard matter” track and a second “soft matter” track. Registrations will open on the dedicated web page from March 1st to May 13th, 2026. - Franco-German Round Table
France, represented by the French Physical Society, will be the guest country at the German Physical Society spring conference, which will take place from March 8 to 13, 2026, in Dresden, with numerous French guests. The 2FDN has been invited to co-organize a round table on Franco-German collaboration in neutron scattering, with several representatives from the centers (LLB, ILL, JCNS, MLZ), as well as SFN and KFN. This round table is organized by the “Physical Chemistry and Polymer Physics.” section and will take place on Wednesday, March 11. - Neutron Science Booth at the “Matériaux 2026” Conference
A booth on neutron science, shared among all French neutron science actors (LLB, SFN, 2FDN, ILL), is planned at the Materials 2026 conference (https://materiaux2026.org/), the major French quadrennial forum in the field of materials. Volunteers to help staff this booth are welcome! Contact: casfn_l@ill.fr, federation.neutron@neel.cnrs.fr
- New Website for Experiment Proposal Submission
Prochains appels à propositions :
- 2FDN : 15 mars 2026
- SANS-LLB via la 2FDN : 15 mai 2026
Scientific Highlight of the Month
Revealed fragility of extremophiles bacteria
Understanding the adaptation mechanisms of cells to extreme environments is challenging due to the high complexity of such systems. Neutron scattering is a well suited technique to investigate the proteome inside the cells under different external conditions and to answer the question: are extremophiles adapted in the same way to heat and cold ?

Job offers
If you have a job offer, please feel free to send it to us, and we will share it !- The New Frontiers in Quantum Materials (NFMQ) group and Biology and Soft Matter (MMB) group at the Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (LLB) are hiring. Three permamnent positions are available with an expected start date in September 2026 (deadline for application on March 30th):
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- Researcher – “Exploration of Quantum Systems” : Details and application here (contacts Françoise Damay and Xavier Fabrèges)
- Crystal Growth Engineer (M/F) : Details and application here (contacts Françoise Damay and Xavier Fabrèges)
- Researcher “Spectroscopy”: Details and application here (contacts Stephane Longeville and Fabrice Cousin)
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- The MEM (Laboratoire Modélisation et Exploration des Matériaux) is seeking to strengthen its Magnetism and Neutron Diffraction team and is opening a permanent position for a Research Physicist, responsible for the neutron scattering instrument CRG-D23 (CRG-CEA at the Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble). The job offer can be consulted here.
- Post-doc offer at Institut Néel : Probing altermagnetic magnons in high-Tc Superconductors (deadline for application March 11th)
- Two new vacancies for a scientist in the ILL Science Division (ref 26/01 & 26/02) as well as a new vacancy for a scientist in the Science Division / Nuclear & Particle Physics Group (ref 26/08) have been published : https://www.ill.eu/careers. They are untitled:
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- Visualization of hydrogen atoms in carbohydrate binding proteins (post-doctoral research fellowship)
- Neutron plus X-ray tomography of plants and bio-structures (post-doctoral research fellowship)
- Macromolecular crystallography (research scientist)
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Upcoming Events
Voir aussi https://neutronsources.org/calendar.html.
- Journée scientifique SF2M sur le thème des nouveaux défis des grands instruments « Des mesures in situ / operando à l’endommagement sous faisceau », March 9th 2026 at FIAP, Paris.
- FASEM school on Energy Applications: From Experiments to Data Analysis, Grenoble, France, March 16th to 20th, 2026.
- The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) for Neutron Scattering will take place in Barcelona, Spain, from April 26 to May 1, 2026. The deadline for application is March 29, 2026.
- Mag2Pol MasterClass 2026 27-29th May 2026, Grenoble. Application deadline: March 15th.
- Ecole thématique des Petits Angles 9th-12th June 2026, Marcoule. Deadline for registration: April 30th.
- 17th Bombannes Summer School on “Scattering Methods Applied to Soft Condensed Matter” 9th – 16th June 2026, Bombannes, Gironde, France.
- FAN 2026 23-25 juin 2026. ILL, Grenoble.
- Polarized Neutrons for condensed Matter Investigations (PNCMI) August 31st – September 4th, Zaragoza (Spain).
- JCNS Laboratory Course on Neutron Scattering 07–18th September 2026, in Jülich (Germany) Grenoble (France). Deadline for application: May 3rd.
- JdN 2026 5-8 octobre 2026. Domaine Lou Capitelle, Ardèche.
- Journées de la Matière Condensée October 26th-30th 2026, Toulouse. Deadline for registration: May 31 st.
- Matériaux 2026 16-20 novembre 2026, Grenoble. Abstract submission deadline : 13 avril 2026.
- European Conference on Neutron Scattering 2027 (ECNS 2027), 27 June- 1st July 2027, Grenoble.
Publications of the month
Please let us know about any recent publications we may have missed.
- Ring polymer physics and rheology: Challenges and opportunities
Schroeder, Charles M. and Everaers, Ralf and Kremer, Kurt and Kruteva, Margarita and Likos, Christos N. and McKenna, Gregory B. and O’Connor, Thomas and Ravi Prakash, J. and Richter, Dieter and Robertson-Anderson, Rae and Rubinstein, Michael and Schweizer, Kenneth S. and Vlassopoulos, Dimitris
JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY - Time-Resolved X-ray and Neutron Imaging of Brine Percolation and Liquefaction in an Ultra-Soft Sandstone
Mirzaei, Fazel and Jaiswal, Mukul and Zeman, Jessica Ann and Tekseth, Kim Robert and Cordonnier, Benoit and Agofack, Nicolaine and Cerasi, Pierre and Renard, Francois and Chattopadhyay, Basab and Breiby, Dag Werner
TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA - Exploring Lignin Conformation in Organic and Deep Eutectic Solvents Using Small-Angle Neutron Scattering.
Sarkar, Subramee and Kroon, Maggie and Papp, Daniel and Martin, Nicolas and Turner, Charlotta and Edler, Karen J
LANGMUIR - Coupling of opposite thermoresponsive mechanisms induced by host-guest complexation and LCST phase transition in formulations of modified hyaluronan and β-cyclodextrin copolymer.
Layre, Anne-Magali and Karakasyan, Carole and Vincent, Lena and Merland, Theo and Ducouret, Guylaine and Le Coeur, Clémence and Wintgens, Véronique and Amiel, Catherine and Hourdet, Dominique
CARBOHYDRATES POLYMERS - Toward Nanodisc Tailoring for SANS Study of Membrane Proteins.
Batchu, Krishna Chaithanya and Tully, Mark D and Martel, Anne BIOENGINEERING (BASEL) - Combined Neutron and X-Ray Diffraction Study of Ibuprofen and Atenolol Adsorption in Zeolite Y.
Martucci, Annalisa and Mancinelli, Maura and Chenet, Tatiana and Adami, Luca and D’anna, Caterina and Suard, Emmanuelle and Pasti, Luisa
MOLECULES - Effective destabilization of both mono- and dihydride phases in TiVZrNbHf by Mo addition
Agafonov, Andrei and Greaves, Faye and Perriere, Loic and Nassif, Vivian and Zlotea, Claudia
SCRIPTA MATERIALIA - Operando 5D tomography uncovers carbonation-driven water transport and cracking in hydrated cement paste
El Faqir, Chakib and Tengattini, Alessandro and Huet, Bruno and Briffaut, Matthieu and Dal Pont, Stefano
COMMUNICATIONS MATERIALS - Switchable Polarization in an A-Site Deficient Perovskite through Vacancy and Cation Engineering
Yoshida, Suguru and Hernandez, Olivier and Miyake, Jinsuke and Nakayama, Kei and Ishikawa, Ryo and Hojo, Hajime and Ikuhara, Yuichi and Gopalan, Venkatraman and Tanaka, Katsuhisa and Fujita, Koji
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY - From Thin Films to Nanodots: Bottom-Up Integration of Fe3O4 on Nb:STO for Functional Oxide Nanostructures
Xu, Yifan and Bednarski-Meinke, Connie and Liu, Yen-Po and Wang, Erkai and Qdemat, Asma and Yuan, Peijia and Vogl, Lilian Maria and Schoffmann, Patrick and Saerbeck, Thomas and Yin, Chenyang and Dehm, Gerhard and Gunkel, Felix and Dittmann, Regina and Petracic, Oleg and Hamed, Mai Hussein
ADVANCED MATERIALS - Copper iodide-doped thioarsenates CuI-As2S3: Glass formation, macroscopic and electrical properties
Daher, Zeinab and Bounazef, Tinehinane and Bokova, Maria and Kassem, Mohammad and Depriester, Michael and Mortada, Hussein and Toufaily, Joumana and Bychkov, Eugene
SOLID STATE IONICS - Multi-scale structural analysis of swift heavy ion-irradiated ZrO2 and HfO2
Solomon, Alexandre P. and O’Quinn, Eric C. and Overstreet, Cale C. and Simon, Pascal and Trautmann, Christina and Park, Changyong and Sprouster, David and Baldinozzi, Gianguido and Lang, Maik K.
ACTA MATERIALIA - Numerical modelling of heat and mass transfer during vapour condensation in porous media: Insights from neutron tomography
Nemati, Arash and Sechet, Philippe and Lukic, Bratislav and Briffaut, Matthieu
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND FLUID FLOW - Magnetic phase diagram of magnetocaloric TmFeO3
Tkachenko, Kirill I. and Fabrykiewicz, Piotr and Ovsianikov, Aleksandr K. and Meven, Martin and Usmanov, V, Oleg and Zobkalo, Igor A. and Shaykhutdinov, Kirill A. and Terentjev, Konstantin Yu. and Semenov, V, Sergey and Ressouche, Eric and Beauvois, Ketty
PHYSICAL REVIEW B - Ferromagnetic fragmented state in the pyrochlore Ho2Ru2O7
Museur, F. and Robert, J. and Morineau, F. and Bujault, N. and Simonet, V. and Pachoud, E. and Hadj-Azzem, A. and Colin, V, C. and Mangin-Thro, L. and Manuel, P. and Stewart, J. R. and Holdsworth, P. C. W. and Lhotel, E.
PHYSICAL REVIEW B - Magnetism of nanostructured hematite: from cultural heritage to fundamental properties
Slimani, Sawssen and Martinelli, Alberto and Omelyanchik, Alexander and Abdolrahimi, Maryam and Castagnotto, Elena and Maltoni, Pierfrancesco and Laureti, Sara and Barucca, Gianni and Yaacoub, Nader and Locardi, Federico and Ramzan, Arooj and Gaggero, Laura and Ferretti, Maurizio and Peddis, Davide
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Other publication of interest
- Quantum critical dynamical response of the twisted Kitaev spin chain
Khodaeva, Uliana E. and Kovrizhin, Dmitry L. and Knolle, Johannes
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
