IBR-2 Experimental hall
IBR-2 Reactor core
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Transport of neutrons from the reactor to the experimental hall
IBR-2 building
IBR-2 building
Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics is one of the laboratories of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia) that investigates the neutron as an elementary particle using various instruments, and employs the neutron as an instrument to investigate the structure and dynamics of condensed matter, including crystals and nanosystems, functional materials, complex liquids and polymers, rocks, etc. so that our findings could find application in molecular biology and pharmacology, engineering diagnostics and in other fields of science and technology.

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Current cycle: April 09, 20:00 – April 21, 15:00
Current beams
Current status

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Work schedule

Change in the operation of the reactor in 4 and 5 cycles

Events

DNP Seminar, April, 25 (Wednesday), 11:00, FLNP Conference hall

Kupriyanova Ekaterina Alexandrovna
(The Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LPI RAS), Moscow)

«Gravitational states in ultracold quantum systems»
(based on the Ph.D. thesis)

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Seminar DNICM, April 16, 2018 (Monday), 11:00, FLNP conference hall

Assoc. Prof. Wojciech Zając
(Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS, Poland)
Lithocholic acid as a molecular crystal, glass-former and a low molecular weight organic gelator
 
Lihocholic acid (LCA), i.e. 3α-hydroxy-5β-cholanic acid, or secondary bile acid, has a steroid framework with two functional end groups: the carboxyl hydroxyl ones. This structure makes it an interesting, if not a model material for the study of aggregation processes, both in bulk and in solution. Bulk properties were studied, among others, by thermal analysis, including a high precision modulated DSC (MDCS), by infrared spectroscopy via moving-window two-dimensional correlation analysis. LCA is a co-called low molecular weight organic gelator to some organic solvents such as DMSO or ethanol. The structure of the gels was studied by small angle neutron scattering as well as by optical and electron microscopy and, complementarily, by MDSC. SEM and TEM images reveal hierarchical, self-similar structure of fibrillar matter. Apparently, this structure is responsible for the gelation fenomena.
 

News

09/04/2018 (eng)

Due to the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia #231 of 3 April 2018 “On awarding the Scholarship of the President of the Russian Federation for 2018 – 2020 to young scientists and post-graduate students conducting promising scientific research on modernization of the Russian economy”, a scholarship of RF President for three years was granted to a Junior Researcher of the FLNP Zhaketov Vladimir Dmitrievich.


The staff of the Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics heartily congratulates Vladimir Zhaketov on winning such a prestigious scholarship competition!