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Developing Technology for Repairing Advanced Jet Engines

Government and academic researchers use neutron beams to test a new repair technology capable of support...

February 1, 2017

Designing New Permanent Magnets for Wind Turbines and Electric Vehicles

McGill University researchers are developing a method for predicting the magnetic properties of new mate...

January 20, 2017

Boosting the Fuel Efficiency of Jet Engines

Rolls‑Royce has applied for a patent for a new material for use in higher-efficiency jet engines, after ...

January 10, 2017

Canadian research team wins award for study of aluminum

The prize-winning study demonstrated the power of neutron beams to provide useful insights into the perf...

December 20, 2016

Basic Research Sheds Light on New Materials for Energy Applications

Scientists regularly access neutron beams to gain fundamental insights into the inner workings of new ma...

December 16, 2016

Helping Cars Lose Weight and Go Green

In partnership with GKN Powder Metallurgy, Dalhousie University researchers are using neutron beams in s...

December 1, 2016

Groundbreaking for SANS beamline at McMaster Nuclear Reactor

Construction of a beam hall that will house the McMaster Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (MacSANS) beamli...

November 28, 2016

Supercapacitors for Clean Energy Technologies

Neutron beams provide insights into the nanoscale workings of supercapacitors, an enabling technology fo...

November 15, 2016

Bill Buyers Contributes to 2016 Nobel-Prize Winning Research

The 2016 laureates for the Nobel Prize in Physics were three American theorists who made surprising pred...

October 31, 2016

Increasing Bio-Compatibility of Medical Devices

Neutron beams reveal the molecular mechanisms behind a new technology that could reduce the risk of comp...

October 26, 2016
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CINS is a not-for-profit, voluntary organization that represents the Canadian scientific community of neutron beam users and promotes scientific research using neutron beams.

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