Director's Report
Index

Structures and phase transitions

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• Cristallographic Structures of austenitic and martensitic hydrides of Ti_0.64Zr_0.36Ni intermetallic compound
• Giant H/D isotopic effect in YFe₂(H_yD_1-y)_4.2 compounds
• Silicon doped hydroxyapatites
• Simulated annealing on neutron and synchrotron powder diffraction DATA
• Magnetic structures of transition metal (Mn, Co, Ni, Cu) Hydroxysylfates
• Crystal and magnetic structures of the Mn³⁺ orbital ordered manganite Y₂Ba₂Mn₄O₁₁
• Spin Speierls ground state in (TMTTF)₂PF₆
• Neutral-to-ionic phase transition under pressure: towards the quantum limit
• Interactions in self-Assemblied molecular crystals
• Phonon anomalies in high Tc superconductors related to charge stripe order
• Magnetic order in high-pressure oxygen

Magnetism and superconductivity

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• Two-dimensional geometry of spin excitations in the high-transition-temperature superconductor YBaCuO_.8
• Small Angle Neutron Scattering from the flux lines lattice: new developments
• Lattice distortions related to charge ordering in SrCuO
• La_>5(Sr,Ca)_<9Cu₂₄O₄₁: a 1D Toy model for hole doped cuprates
• Confined spin waves reveal an assembly of nanosize domains in La_1-xCa_xMnO₃ (x=0.17, 0.2)
• Magnetic filaments in resistive manganites
• Magnetic ground state in the frustrated S=1/2 square lattice of V⁴⁺ in Li₂VOSiO₄
• Temperature renormalization of the spin correlations in the dimer spin-Liquid TlCuCl₃
• Domain structures in Fe/FeN multilayers

Materials science

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• Residual stress redistribution in a wheel/axle assembly due to cyclic loading
• Residual stresses in welded aluminium joints for aerospace applications
• Investigation of the alpha and beta texture evolution of hot forged titanium alloy products
• Impurities effects on the mechanisms of recrystallization of wire-drawn copper
• Nanocluster formation in electron irradiated lithium oxide
• Combined X-ray & neutron powder diffraction study of a dimorphic C₆₀ solvate: C₆₀ 1.5 CH₂C_l2
• Local order around Nd³⁺ ions in an organic solution as determined by neutron scattering experiment

Physical chemistry and soft matter

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• Bottle brush shape polymacromonomers : conformation and dynamics in solutions and melts
• Aqueous supramolecular polymer formed by an amphiphilic perylene derivative
• Swelling and collapse of a weak polyelectrolyte as a function of pH
• Polymer-polymer adhesion of uncrosslinked elastomers studied by neutron reflectivity
• Atom transfer radical polymerization from silica nanoparticles : following chemical synthesis using SANS
• Highly stretched polymer brushes with a low swelling capacity
• New structural model for Nafion® membranes
• Local dynamics of bulk and nanoparticle filled poly(vinyl acetate) observed by quasielastic neutron scattering

Life sciences

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• Experimental evidence of a liquid-liquid transition at 0 K in interfacial water
• Hydration water dynamics of hydrophobic oligopeptide
• Hydration of ds-DNA ans ss-DNA
• Diffusion of water in halophilic archaea
• Structure of proteins-polyelectrolyte complexes

Modelling

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• The weakly coupled Rotor-Morse oscillator system: A toy model for selective chemical dissociation
• Spin dynamics of the electron-doped high Tc superconducting cuprates
• Faults, a new program for refinement of powder diffraction patters from layered structures
• Dynamics of lysozyme under pressure seen by molecular simulation and neutron scattering

Technical and instrumental developments

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• Papyrus : a dedicated tool to study surfaces at the nanoscale
• Very small angle neutron scattering spectrometer (TPA)
• Technical developments dedicated to "in situ" temperature analysis of crystallographic textures by neutron diffraction
• Neutron holographic study of palladium hydride
• Replacement of first elements of Guides 1 to 6
• Report on a first neutron test of a new D position-sensitive detector of thermal neutrons

Experimental Programme and User Activities

Publications