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EPN Science Campus

Aerial view of the EPN campus Grenoble (Copyright ILL / Peter Ginter)
Aerial view of the EPN campus Grenoble (Copyright ILL / Peter Ginter)

Three major European institutes are established in Grenoble’s science park, in the so-called European Photon and Neutron science campus or EPN science campus:

Nowhere else in the world can we find this combination of an extremely intense neutron source and an equally powerful synchrotron light source. As service institutes, the EMBL, ESRF and ILL make their facilities available to their visiting scientists. Every year, over 8 000 researchers from all over the world come to use them.

Partnership for Structural Biology

PSBThe three institutes have jointly set up the Partnership for Structural Biology.

This centre of excellence in molecular biology brings together resources and expertise from the ILL, ESRF, EMBL and IBS (Institut de Biologie Structurale) to pursue an integrated programme in structural biology. It includes a unique biological deuteration laboratory for the preparation of deuterated macromolecules for use in neutron and NMR studies.

Partnership for Soft Condensed Matter

Soft condensed matter studies include those on polymer fibres
Soft condensed matter studies include those on polymer fibres

The Partnership for Soft Condensed Matter (PSCM) is a scientific and technical platform supporting ambitious large-scale soft matter research projects related to nanomaterials, environmental and energy sciences, biotechnology and related fields.

The PSCM facilitates a deeper exploitation of state-of-the-art neutron instruments and synchrotron beamlines in combination with on-site specialised sample preparation and characterisation facilities. Together these enable cutting-edge experiments for the investigation of the structure and dynamics of bulk and interfacial soft matter and related systems.