Abstract
With the promise of new, more powerful neutron sources in the future, the possibilities for time-resolved neutron scattering experiments will improve and are bound to gain in interest. While there is already a large body of work on the accurate control of temperature, pressure, and magnetic fields for static experiments, this field is less well developed for time-resolved experiments on soft condensed matter and biomaterials. We present here an overview of different sample environments and technique combinations that have been developed so far and which might inspire further developments so that one can take full advantage of both the existing facilities as well as the possibilities that future high intensity neutron sources will offer.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 5566 |
| Journal | Applied Sciences (Switzerland) |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2 2021 |
Funding
Acknowledgments: We would like to acknowledge input from our colleagues Ralf Schweins, Steve King, Paul Butler, Sai Venkatesh Pingali, Frank Bates, Bin Wu and Gary Lynn. A special acknowledgement is due for our sadly missed colleague Isabelle Grillo. T. Plivelic, J. Vermant and R. Winter have made original figures available. The anonymous reviewers have made some valuable suggestions and are acknowledged for their careful reading of the manuscript. W.B.’s contribution is based upon work supported by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy. A portion of this research used resources at the High Flux Isotope Reactor and the Spallation Neutron Source, DOE Office of Science User Facilities operated by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan (accessed on 13 May 2021). We would like to acknowledge input from our colleagues Ralf Schweins, Steve King, Paul Butler, Sai Venkatesh Pingali, Frank Bates, Bin Wu and Gary Lynn. A special acknowledge-ment is due for our sadly missed colleague Isabelle Grillo. T. Plivelic, J. Vermant and R. Winter have made original figures available. The anonymous reviewers have made some valuable suggestions and are acknowledged for their careful reading of the manuscript. W.B.?s contribution is based upon work supported by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy. A portion of this research used resources at the High Flux Isotope Reactor and the Spallation Neutron Source, DOE Office of Science User Facilities operated by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan (accessed on 13 May 2021). Featured Application: This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes.
Keywords
- Neutron scattering
- Sample environments
- Soft matter
- Time-resolved