New research consortium: Testing materials for fusion power plants
© Laura Richter, FRM II/TUM

A mammalian ancestor with hardly any whiskers – a potential disadvantage in the struggle for survival?
© Márcio L. Castro, Medina et al. (2025)

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

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

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

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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

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

Around 80 specialists from the fields of neutron and food research gathered in Garching during the week of 15–18 June for the eighth edition of the ‘Neutrons & Food’ conference. The focus was on fostering…

Materials for future fusion power plants are to be developed at the Garching research campus. As part of a new program of the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), several research groups…

A South American research team has, for the first time, examined a 230-million-year-old mammalian ancestor in high resolution using neutrons at the FRM II. This has given the paleontologists an insight into…