Measuring, experimenting and discovering for themselves: on Girls’ Day, 14 girls looked into the reactor vessel at the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II), tested the glove box in the chemistry lab, measured natural radiation and were given a “formula” for a career in science.

Three scientists from the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum have been elected to the Committee for Neutron Research (KFN). Dr Michael Schulz, Prof. Dr Christian Reiter, and Dr Andreas Houben received the most votes for the neutron research committee.

A material that repairs itself after tearing – sounds like science fiction, but it is already being used in the form of hydrogels for wound healing and in agriculture. Researchers at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ) have used neutrons to investigate how these self-healing polymers are structured and how they behave.