Dear colleagues,
The 19th and last edition of our Inside SINE2020 newsletter will bring you the following news:
News of SINE2020:
- The SINE2020 Story
- Introducing e-neutrons.org
- The SINE2020 website
- What is next?
Industry
- Case Studies
- Neutron techniques animated!
From the world of neutrons:
- The latest neutron news
- Job vacancies
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The SINE2020 Story!
Science and Innovation with Neutrons in Europe in 2020 (SINE2020) has come to an end. Four years of collaborations and hard work has advanced many aspects of neutron techniques and the neutron community.
So we have made a video to highlight the achievements of the SINE2020 project over the last four years! Enjoy! Watch the video here.
Introducing e-neutrons.org
www.e-neutrons.org is an interactive website for teaching and learning neutron and neutron-related techniques realised by SINE2020. It allows current and potential users of large scale facilities to access learning materials that can support their use of neutron and muon experiments in their research. We have made videos to showcase the features of the platform. One for general users and one for teachers and supervisors of neutron schools and courses that might find it useful to supplement their teaching.
The SINE2020 website
After this month, the SINE2020 website will no longer be updated. However, it will still serve as a record of all the invaluable work and achievements of the project. From the aims and results of the different Joint Research Activities, to the SINE2020 Supported Neutron Schools and list of publications. And you can always remind yourself of the individual projects and stories involved on The Road to the ESS.
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What is next?
The end of SINE2020 coincides with structural changes at the European research council, where the Horizon 2020 framework will be replaced by Horizon Europe. The European neutron community has already prepared itself for new Horizons with the formation of LENS – the League of advanced Neutron Sources (https://www.lens-initiative.org).
The new LENS working groups incorporate existing SINE2020 networks with ongoing projects. The current unpredictability of external funding sources also means the neutron community needs to support each other. With LENS, facilities should demonstrate that, working together, combating new scientific and technical challenges is possible, even if they are beyond the scope of individual partners.
Industrial Case Studies
The SINE2020 project provided funding for free feasibility studies to industrial companies. Overall 37 companies, ranging from the automotive to the biotech sectors, took up this offer. We now have 10 Case Studies from some of these experiments available on the SINE2020 website to showcase how useful neutrons can be in the industrial sector.
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Neutron Techniques animated!
SINE2020 was also able to support the production of three videos, aimed at an industrial audience, on three different neutron techniques: Neutron Depth Profiling for Li-ion batteries, Small Angle Neutron Scattering and Residual Stress measurements. All the videos are available to watch on YouTube and you can find the links on our Industry webpages. Share them with anyone interested in discovering the unique advantages of neutron techniques.
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Final shutdown of the Orphée reactor
As of Tuesday 29th October 2019, the Orphée reactor in Saclay is no longer in operation.
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Ready to turn data into discoveries
ESS has officially inaugurated the data centre infrastructure that will play a vital role in processing the enormous amounts of research data from experiments being conducted here.
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European neutron facilities come together for LENS General Assembly
The League of advanced European Neutron Sources (LENS) held its second General Assembly at Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) on 24th October 2019 preceded the day before by meetings of its five working groups and the LENS Executive Board. The meetings brought the consortium’s operational working groups together with the leaders of the LENS member facilities to advance priority actions for the organisation in the months to come.
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