A new species has been identified following the examination of a 10-million-year-old reptile skull: Fontisaurus tarumbaire.
© Bernhard Ludewig FRMII / TUM, Michael Tripoli, Frederic Pahisa / Municipal Administration Viladecavalls

Looking into the past with neutrons: An international conference organised by the MLZ presents the potential of the particles for archaeology.
© Paul Scherrer Institut and Laura Richter, FRM II/TUM

How a Ph.D. student at FRM II is conducting research on the lunar base of the future.
© ESA

How battery electrolytes behave when you warm them up
© Reiner Müller, FRM II / TUM

An interdisciplinary research team has detected crystal defects at FRM II's positron source NEPOMUC that make batteries more efficient.
© Wenzel Schürmann, Andreas Heddergott / TUM

Excessive stress in a material can lead to fatigue, often rendering it unusable. To prevent this, researchers have investigated a particularly composite at MLZ’s Material Science Lab.
© FRM II / TUM

From smartphone sensors that aid in antimatter research to additive manufacturing for the removal of space debris: The new 2025 Annual Science Report is now online!
© Laura Richter, FRM II / TUM

Measuring, experimenting and discovering for themselves: on Girls’ Day, 14 girls gained an insight into a career as a scientist at FRM II.
© Laura Richter, FRM II / TUM

Neutrons instead of alchemy – tracing elements at the Deutsches Museum
© Anke Görg, FRM II / TUM

Self-healing hydrogels: How flexible polymer chains repair cracks and create stable structures
© generiert mit KI, Gemini und Tobias Hase

From defect analysis in semiconductors using positrons to cancer therapy using neutrons: Research at the MLZ receives 7.6 million euros in funding from the BMFTR.
© Astrid Eckert, FRM II / TUM

Neutron research shows that the microstructure of solvents influences nanomaterials more strongly than previously assumed.
© Bernhard Ludewig, FRM II / TUM

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© Andreas Heddergott, FRM II / TUM

MLZ - Neutrons for Research and Innovation

Forschungs-Neutronenquelle
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II)

The Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) is a Corporate Research Center of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) located on the premises of the modern research campus in Garching.

Here, neutrons and positrons enable a wide range of applications in research, industry and medicine: from developing new technologies, such as batteries for electric cars, to precise anti-cancer drugs.

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Events

30.06.2026

SciCat Conference 2026 (Conference)

06.07.2026

MLZ Conference 2026: Neutrons for Future Health (Conference)

06.07.2026

Neutron Scattering Studies of Protein Dynamics and Their Associated Quantum Effects in Biological Systems (Seminar: Neutrons in Research and Industry)

03.09.2026

TUM-Expertenforum 2026 (Industry event)

05.09.2026

International Workshop on Slow Positron Beam Techniques and Applications - SLOPOS17 organized by the University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Workshop)

02.12.2026

MLZ User Meeting 2026 (Conference)

10.09.2028

21st International Conference on Positron Annihilation (Conference)

News

Researchers at FRM II have used neutrons to identify a previously unknown species of lizard that appears to have been widespread. The fossil, which is around ten million years old, shows that there were…

Decades after Robert Oppenheimer first suggested using neutrons to analyse archaeological artefacts, an international conference in Munich organised by the MLZ demonstrates how this non-destructive technique…

Nuclear energy is set to make crewed space stations on the moon a reality soon – what sounds like a distant future is currently being researched at FRM II. Aerospace engineer Julius Mercz is developing a…