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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 [read more]

A team of researchers have now found indications of a so-called “spiral spin-liquid” structure in manganese scandium thiospinel single crystals at low temperatures. They used the diffuse scattering neutron time of flight spectrometer (DNS). [read more]

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… [read more]

An international team of scientists has examined high-temperature superconductors at the instrument PANDA. Their resulsts have been published in Nature Communications. [read more]

Mechnical 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. [read more]

The VDI-TUM Experts Forum, which is organized at intervals of 2 years from the VDI and the FRM II, took place at the Campus Garching on 15 September 2016. As always, it was fully booked and the organizers of the Technical Committee "Application-oriented non-destructive material and component… [read more]

On September 21, in Kiel again a Garching neutron researcher receives the Wolfram Prandl Prize for young scientists in the field of research with neutrons: Dr. Anatoliy Senyshyn. He obtains the prize for his outstanding research in the field of lithium-ion batteries, which he watches in its… [read more]

In der Kombination „Physik & Technik“ haben die Projektpartner Physik-Department der TUM, Gerda-Stetter-Stiftung und die Forschungs-Neutronenquelle das Programm vom 30. August bis 1. September 2016 erstmals angeboten. Zwölf Mädchen im Alter von zehn bis zwölf Jahren sind dem Ruf gefolgt und hatten… [read more]

Experiments with neutrons reveal minimal corrosion of the top layer of a naturally occurring CO2 reservoir. [read more]

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). The projects are to be realized by ten different universities over the next three years, including seven projects at the Technical… [read more]