To get access to our joined service, you will need to submit proposals for both the JCNS deuteration service and the ILL D/L-Labs. The proposal at the ILL will be reviewed by a panel of external experts regarding the scientific case. Both proposals will also be reviewed by the staff of the corresponding laboratories regarding the feasibility of the deuteration. All of these reviews must be passed to be granted your request.
If your proposals are accepted, we will prepare the samples for free (within a reasonable amount of cost for starting materials). In exchange, applicants are expected to acknowledge the relevant JCNS D-Lab and ILL D/L-Lab scientists through co-authorship in publications resulting from their work.
Please note: Before writing a proposal, contact the deuteration service via deuterierung@fz-juelich.de! You do not wish to spend time writing a good proposal only to find out it was rejected because of unfeasibility!
How to submit a proposal via Indico
In contrast to neutron beamtime proposals handled within GhOST at the MLZ, our deuteration call will use the resources offered by the Indico system, an environment you might be familiar with from participating in one of the MLZ's regular events. As this system is designed to cater to the needs of conferences and other events, some terms it uses might be confusing. In this case, the "event" is the call for deuteration proposals as given in the title above and your "abstract" will be the deuteration proposal you submit to us.
However, to submit a proposal, aka abstract, you first need to register on this website ("Register for submission") to ensure that we have all the contact information we need to contact you.
Afterwards, please complete all the necessary information at "Submit your proposal".
Please don't forget to select the track "deuteration"; otherwise, your proposal will get stuck in the system!
To confirm the successful proposal submission, you and your co-authors will receive an email from the system.
