Spin-Echo Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Applied to Colloidal Systems

Spin-Echo Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Applied to Colloidal Systems
Author: T. Kruglov
Publisher: Ios PressInc
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9789040725937

A new technique has its value as long as it is known what it measures, not only how it measures. Paradoxically the actual development and application of Spin-echo Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (SESANS) started before its measured quantities were fully interpreted. This publication provides a manual on the methodology and interpretation of the SESANS measurements. Chapter 'Theory' could also have been named 'What SESANS actually measures'. Chapter 'Experiment' could have been named 'What SESANS is actually able to measure'. The subject of this book, both theoretical and experimental, is focused on isotropic particles (solid spheres, shells and gaussian coils) and structures formed by spherical particles.

Scattering in Polymeric and Colloidal Systems

Scattering in Polymeric and Colloidal Systems
Author: Wyn Brown
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2000-08-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9789056992606

The application of selected scattering methods, in particular light and neutron scattering, to complex polymeric and colloidal systems is discussed. Progress in this area of condensed matter is charted and the book provides insight into the theory and practice of the techniques apploed to a number of diverse problems.

Small-angle Neutron Scattering on a Core-shell Colloidal System: a Contrast-variation Study

Small-angle Neutron Scattering on a Core-shell Colloidal System: a Contrast-variation Study
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Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) measurements are reported on a sterically stabilized, core-shell colloidal system using contrast variation. Aqueous dispersions of polystyrene particles bearing grafted poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) have been studied over a large range of particle concentrations and two different solvent conditions for the PEG polymer. SANS data are analyzed quantitatively by modeling the particles as core-shell colloids. In a good solvent and under particle contrast conditions, an effective hard-sphere interaction captures excluded-volume interactions up to high concentrations. Contrast variation, through isotopic substitution of both the core and solvent, expedite a detailed study of the PEG layer, both in the dilute limit and as a function of the particle concentration. Upon diminishing the solvent quality, subtle changes in the PEG layer translate into attractions among particles of moderate magnitude.

Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy

Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy
Author: Ferenc Mezei
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2008-01-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540458239

Neutron spin echo (NSE) spectroscopy is the highest energy resolution neutron scattering technique available for examining a large area (in time and space) in condensed matter physics. This broad dynamic and spatial range is extensively exploited in the study of a wide range of scientific problems ranging from the dynamics of glasses, polymer melts, complex fluids and microemulsions to the elementary excitations in superfluid 4He and to ferromagnets and spin glasses. This book reviews the current status and future prospects in NSE spectroscopy describing the method, latest instrumentation and also the use of NSE in fundamental, hard- and soft-matter science. It provides first-hand information for researchers working in the fields touched by NSE. In addition, young researchers, PhD students and graduates interested in the method will obtain a comprehensive overview and guidelines to implementing the NSE technique.

Soft-Matter Characterization

Soft-Matter Characterization
Author: Redouane Borsali
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1490
Release: 2008-07-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 140204464X

This 2-volume set includes extensive discussions of scattering techniques (light, neutron and X-ray) and related fluctuation and grating techniques that are at the forefront of this field. Most of the scattering techniques are Fourier space techniques. Recent advances have seen the development of powerful direct imaging methods such as atomic force microscopy and scanning probe microscopy. In addition, techniques that can be used to manipulate soft matter on the nanometer scale are also in rapid development. These include the scanning probe microscopy technique mentioned above as well as optical and magnetic tweezers.

Scattering from Correlations in Colloidal Systems

Scattering from Correlations in Colloidal Systems
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Colloidal suspensions typically exhibit spatial correlations over distances of order 10-104 A, corresponding either to the size of individual particles (e.g., polymer chains, surfactant micelles) or to the range of interaction between particles (e.g., charged polymer lattices at low ionic strength). Apart from having fundamental intrinsic interest, such systems are also extremely useful as model systems with which to study, for example, non-Newtonian hydrodynamics, since temporal correlations are generally much longer lived (10−8−1°sup -3/ sec) than those found in simple atomic or small molecular systems (10−13−1°sup -10/ sec). Colloids have long been the subject of macroscopic phenomenological research (on rheological properties, for example), but it is only recently that microscopic light, x-ray and neutron scattering techniques have been applied to their study, in large part because of theoretical difficulties in understanding the scattering from dense liquid-like systems of interacting particles. For spherical colloids, such theoretical problems have now been largely overcome, and for anisotropic colloids experimental techniques are being developed which circumvent the intractable theoretical areas. This paper will first review some static light and small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) results on colloidal suspensions, both at equilibrium and in steady-state non-equilibrium situations, and will then discuss some dynamic measurements on polymer solutions and melts made using the neutron spin-echo (NSE) technique. Emphasis is placed on experiments which have a possible counterpart in synchrotron radiation studies. In particular, NSE extends the results of photon correlation spectroscopy (PCS) to larger momentum transfers and shorter time-scales than are available with visible light, and the extension of PCS to short wavelength on a synchrotron source would be of similar fundamental interest.

Scattering Techniques Applied to Supramolecular and Nonequilibrium Systems

Scattering Techniques Applied to Supramolecular and Nonequilibrium Systems
Author: Sow Hsin Chen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 909
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1468440616

This Advanced Study Institute was held at \-lellesley College, Wellesley, MA. , from 3 to 12 August 1980. It followed by four years the second "Capri ~,chool on Photon Correlation Spectroscopy". During the intervening period there had been many new applications of dynamic light scattering techniques to the study of systems whose properties depend either on collective molecular interactions or on the formation or activity of supramo1ecu1ar structures. Con sequently, emphasis at this conference was on light scattering studies of subjects such as dynamical correlations in dense polymer solutions, phase transitions in gels, spinodal decomposition of binary fluids, Benard instabilities in nonequilibrium fluids, the formation of micelles and phospholipid vesicles, and movements of the molecular assemblies of muscle tissue. The instructional pro gramme also included tutorial lectures on two complementary spec troscopic techniques which have benefited from dramatic advances in instrumentation, these being small angle X-ray (SAXS) and small angle neutron (SANS) scattering. Strong cold neutron and synchro tron X-ray sources have become available, and data now can be acquired rapidly with newly developed position-sensitive detectors. Several reviews of recent applications of SAXS and SANS were also provided. The organizers of the ASI hoped to provide a forum for theoreticians and experimentalists to assess advances in fields which, although related, were sufficiently different that a great deal of unfamiliar information could be communicated. The order ing of the papers in this volume closely approximates that of the talks presented at the Advanced Study Institute.