1. Edition - April 2011
129.- Euro
2011. 664 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-470-40252-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-40252-8 - John Wiley & Sons






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Short description
Car windshields, credit cards, calculators, food packaging, and countless other items have seen improvement in quality thanks to neutron research. Essentials of Neutron Techniques for Soft Matter addresses instrumental techniques related to neutron and synchrotron study and, in particular, small-angle-neutron scattering, which can reveal how long, threadlike polymer molecules pack to give plastics their diverse properties. Recognizing that new neutron sources are about to be constructed around the world, this book serves as a valuable guidebook for scientists that will be trained to use and conduct experiments at such facilities.

From the contents
Preface.

Contributors.

I Neutron Scattering.

I.1 Basic Concepts (Ferenc Mezei).

II Instrumentation.

II.1 Small-Angle Neutron Scattering.

II.1.1 Small-Angle Neutron Scattering at Reactor Sources (Kell Mortensen).

II.1.2 SANS Instruments at Pulsed Neutron Sources (Toshiya Otomo).

II.1.3 Ultra-Small-Angle Neutron Scattering.

II.1.3.1 Bonse-Hart USANS Instrument (Michael Agamalian).

II.1.3.2 Focusing USANS Instrument (Satoshi Koizumi).

II.2 Neutron Reflectometry (Naoya Torikai).

II.3 Quasielastic and Inelastic Neutron Scattering.

II.3.1 Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy (Michael Monkenbusch and Dieter Richter).

II.3.2 Neutron Backscattering (Bernhard Frick and Dan Neumann).

II.3.3 Time-of-Flight Spectrometry (Ruep E. Lechner).

II.4 Neutron Imaging (Nobuyuki Takenaka).

III Data Treatment and Sample Environment.

III.1 Practical Aspects of SANS Experiments (George D. Wignall).

III.2 Structure Analysis (Hideki Seto).

III.3 Calculation of Real Space Parameters and Ab Initio Models from Isotropic Elastic SANS Patterns (Peter V. Konarev and Dmitri I. Svergun).

III.4 Contrast Variation (Mitsuhiro Hirai).

III.5 Sample Environment: Soft Matter Sample Environment for Small-Angle Neutron Scattering and Neutron Reflectometry (Peter Lindner, Ralf Schweins, and Richard A. Campbell).

IV Applications.

IV.1 Hierarchical Structure of Small Molecules (Tsang-Lang Lin).

IV.2 Structure of Dendritic Polymers and Their Films (Koji Mitamura and Toyoko Imae).

IV.3 Dynamics of Polymers (Toshiji Kanaya and Barbara J.Gabrys).

IV.4 Inhomogeneous Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Soft Matter (Mitsuhiro Shibayama).

IV.5 Protein Dynamics Studied by Neutron Incoherent Scattering (Mikio Kataoka and Hiroshi Nakagawa).

IV.6 Polymer Interfaces and Thin Films (David G. Bucknall).

IV.7 Neutron Diffraction from Polymers and Other Soft Matter (Geoffrey R. Mitchell).

V Current Facilities.

V.1 Pulsed Neutron Sources and Facilities (Masatoshi Arai).

V.2 Reactor Overview (Colin J. Carlile).

Index.