Scientists used neutrons to investigate how hybrid implants made of magnesium and titanium change inside the body. The findings are important for developing better implants. © Adobe Stock
Scientists used neutrons to investigate how hybrid implants made of magnesium and titanium change inside the body. The findings are important for developing better implants. © Adobe Stock
23.02.2026
•Health Innovation
•5 min

How hydrogen affects titanium implants

Researchers use Swiss Spallation Neutron Source SINQ to study how medical implants change inside the body.

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Im Treppenhaus des Park Innovaare unterhalten sich Lea Caminada, Leiterin der Forschungsruppe für Hochenergiephysik am Zentrum für Neutronen- und Myonenforschung des PSI, und Wolfram Erdmann, Projektleiter des europaweiten Konsortiums, das einen bedeutenden Teil des nächsten CMS-Detektors am CERN baut.
In the stairwell of Park Innovaare, Lea Caminada, head of the High Energy Particle Physics group at the PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences, is in conversation with Wolfram Erdmann, project leader of the Europe-wide consortium, which is building a significant part of the next CMS detector at CERN. © Paul Scherrer Institute PSI/Markus Fischer
04.02.2026
•Future Technologies
•10 min

One thousand modules for CERN

At CERN near Geneva, tiny particles with extremely high energies are blasted at each other to answer big questions about the universe. The detectors that observe the collisions of these particles require regular upgrades. Lea Caminada and her High Energy Particle Physics research group at PSI play an important role in this quest.

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30.01.2026
•Future Technologies
•6 min

Important funding for muon research

PSI gets an NCCR: The Muoniverse project will further expand research on the beamlines for elementary particles called muons – at the world’s leading facility for muon beams. 

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Thomas Prokscha
Thomas Prokscha is interim head of the Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy. © Paul Scherrer Institute PSI/Markus Fischer
27.01.2026
•Large research facilities
•11 min

“We’re pulling out all the stops”

PSI is increasing the intensity of its muon beams a hundredfold. This opens up entirely new possibilities for physics and materials research.

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The PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences uses neutrons and muons to explore and understand matter and materials.

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•Health Innovation

Green biomass as a sustainable source of protein

SINQ

The food industry is increasingly focusing on sustainable products. Proteins from green biomass are a promising option, as a research team involving the MLZ has discovered. These can be used, for example, as stabilisers in emulsions, such as in plant-based alternatives to yogurt, milk, ice cream, or cheese.

Khasanov et al
•Large research facilities

Oxygen-isotope effect on the density wave transitions in La3⁢Ni2⁢O7

SμS

The isotope effect is a powerful probe of electron-phonon interactions in solid-state systems, offering key insights into how atomic mass influences emergent quantum states. Here, the impact of oxygen-isotope substitution (16O→18O) on charge- and spin-density wave (CDW and SDW) transitions in the double-layer Ruddlesden-Popper nickelate La3⁢Ni2⁢O7 is investigated ...

Khasanov et al
•Large research facilities

Pressure and oxygen-isotope substitution on density-wave transitions in La4⁢Ni3⁢O10

SμS SINQ

Understanding the interplay between magnetism and superconductivity in nickelate systems is a key objective in condensed matter physics. Gaining microscopic insights into magnetism—particularly as it emerges near superconductivity—requires a synergistic approach that combines complementary experimental techniques with controlled tuning of external parameters. In this paper, we present ...

Gruber et al
•Large research facilities

Powder-level carbide modification controls HIP grain growth and enhances fatigue in reused additively manufactured superalloy

SINQ

Inconel 718 dominates laser powder bed fusion (PBF-LB/M) builds as the benchmark Ni superalloy for its γ′/γ″ hardenability, weldability, and qualification pedigree, yet its fatigue resistance remains limited by porosity, tensile residual stresses, and microstructural heterogeneity ...

Li et al

Robust AC Vector Sensing at Zero Magnetic Field with Pentacene

Quantum sensors based on electronic spins have emerged as powerful probes of microwave-frequency fields. Among other solid-state platforms, spins in molecular crystals offer a range of advantages, from high spin density to functionalization via chemical tunability. Here, we demonstrate ...

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Swiss Spallation Neutron Source SINQ

Neutron scattering techniques are highly versatile and powerful tools for studying the structure and dynamics of condensed matter. A wide scope of problems, ranging from fundamental to solid state physics and chemistry, and from materials science to biology, medicine and environmental science, can be investigated with neutrons. In addition to scattering, non-diffractive methods like imaging techniques allows for non-destructive inspection of materials and components, providing information on their internal structure, composition, and integrity with growing relevance also for industrial applications.
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    Magnetic structures and magnetic phase diagram of the mixed-valence iron phosphate Fe7(PO4)6
    Inorganic Chemistry. 2026; 65(13): 7418-7430. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6c00534
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    Nano Letters. 2026; 26(10): 3454-3462. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c06411
    DORA PSI
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    Oxygen-isotope effect on the density wave transitions in La3Ni2O7
    Physical Review Research. 2026; 8(1): L012055 (8 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/84hf-dl4p
    DORA PSI
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    Pressure and oxygen-isotope substitution on density-wave transitions in La4Ni3O10
    Physical Review Research. 2026; 8(1): 013249 (16 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/nrqn-m22c
    DORA PSI
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