Welcome to the website of the
Société Française de la Neutronique
Welcome to the website of the
Société Française de la Neutronique
The SFN is a learned society created in 1994 to promote neutronics within the scientific community and to federate the French neutronics community, covering a wide range of scientific fields (physics, chemistry, biology, etc.).
Every year, it organises the Journées de la Diffusion Neutronique, during which it awards its thesis prize to a young scientist.
Thematic Schools are held regularly, with courses published and freely accessible.
Finally, this website is at your disposal: it provides a forum for exchanging information about neutronics. Don’t hesitate to contact us and provide new ideas of contents!
SFN documents
The SFN has drawn up a text calling for an ambitious French policy for neutron scattering. This text has been sent in 2023 to the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, the CNRS and the CEA.
A ‘table ronde’ about HiCANS and the ICONE project took place during the JDN2023 in Erquy.
Bulletin SFN-2FDN
The latest SFN-2FDN monthly newsletter is now available!
This newsletter is dedicated to the community of neutron scattering users. It is co-edited by 2FDN and SFN.
SFN Thesis Prize
Winner 2024
Jury chaired by Laurent Michot
Tiago Outerelo Corvo
Structures and dynamics of Poly(Ionic liquid) in bulk and at interfaces
News
JDN 2025
The next Journées de la Diffusion Neutronique will take place on June 2-5, 2025 at Annecy Lake. Save the date! More information here.
HERCULES
HERCULES is a European school dedicated to thesis students and young researchers using Neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation for applications in Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Condensed Matter (hard and soft).
Measuring the bending rigidity of microbial glucolipid (biosurfactant) bioamphiphile self-assembled structures by neutron spin-echo
Neutron spin echo (NSE) is used in this work to measure the bending rigidity, k, of self-assembled nanostructures prepared with new glycosylated lipids of biological origin, a class of molecules better known for their surface active properties than for their membrane-forming properties. NSE was chosen as essentially being the only technique allowing to measure k on nanoscale objects of three different shapes, vesicles, membranes, fibers. The use of neutrons is here critical for the structure which is probed by scattering while the dynamics, from which k is derived, is probed by the magnetic interaction between neutrons (spin-1/2) and matter.
Insertion de nanoparticules anisotropes dans des phases lamellaires tensioactives
Isabelle Grillo (1973-2019) était responsable de l’instrument de DNPA D33 à l’ILL, et appréciée de la communauté des neutrons. Elle était particulièrement connue pour déceler les phénomènes physiques fondamentaux à l’œuvre dans des systèmes d’apparence ordinaire, comme la stabilité du Pastis. Elle a publié environ 225 articles, dont 3 articles sur le sujet de sa thèse de doctorat dédiée à l’étude des mécanismes d’insertion d’argiles dans des phases lamellaires, une problématique importante dans le monde industriel, mais une vue d’ensemble finale manquait encore. Un quart de siècle plus tard, l’article présenté ici vise à combler cette lacune et à faire connaître des résultats issus de sa thèse qui restent d’actualité.
Multiscale structures of poly(ionic liquid)s : a systematic investigation of the role of local interactions
Poly(ionic liquid)s represent a promising class of solid-state viscoelastic electrolytes, holding significant potential energy storage applications and advanced materials science. Rather than complexifying their chemical structure to enhance their conductivity, a systematic investigation of simple and model systems by small angle neutron scattering deepens our fundamental understanding of the morphology these materials across a wide range of length scales, paving the way to a broader investigation of their intricate behaviours and properties.