ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

Next proposal deadline: October 2020

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What does ISIS Neutron and Muon Source do?

About us

ISIS Neutron and Muon Source is a world-leading centre for research at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford. Our suite of neutron and muon instruments give unique insights into the properties of materials on the atomic scale.

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News

ISIS@MACH: A new partnership between ISIS and the Lazio region of Italy
A new Research Infrastructure, ISIS@MACH, (Lazio Region, Italy), a partnership with ISIS Pulsed Neutron and Muon Source (Oxfordshire-United Kingdom)
Chemistry Nobel Prize awarded to Li-ion battery researchers
The 2019 Nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for their work in developing lithium-ion batteries.

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Science Highlights

Textbook skin cream structure is wrong
Neutrons at ISIS reveal that the microstructure of skin creams is more complex than previously thought.
Cereal research takes roots on IMAT
Neutrons have been used to map the root structure of wheat plants in life-like soil conditions for the first time, and the researchers have returned to study rice, with the help of a new research greenhouse on the IMAT beamline.

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