The Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) is funded and managed by France, Germany and the United Kingdom, in partnership with 11 other European countries. The research conducted at the ILL is dedicated to both fundamental science (60 percent) and the modern societal challenges (40 percent). It covers topics in biology, (green) chemistry and materials science, as well as condensed matter, nuclear and particle physics.
As the world’s flagship centre for neutron science, the ILL provides scientists with a very high flux of neutrons (ILL High-Flux Reactor) feeding some 40 state-of-the-art instruments, which are constantly being developed and upgraded).
As a service institute the ILL makes its facilities and expertise available to visiting scientists. Every year, about 1400 researchers from over 40 countries visit the ILL and 640 experiments selected by a scientific review committee are performed.
