Presentations & Short Courses

Presentations

• Talk by Matthew Helgeson: “The Mechanism of Shear Banding in Worm-like Micelles: Rheo-SANS Measurements of Microstructure and Structure-property Relationships.”
• Talk by Darrin Pochan: “SANS Studies of Shear-thinning and Rehealing Hydrogel Networks from Peptide Self-assembly and Micelles from Charged Block Copolymer Self-assembly.”
• Poster by Monica Branco: “Neutron Scattering Analysis of the Dynamics and Structure of Semiflexible, Self-Assembled Peptide Chain Networks and Wormlike.”
• Poster by Aaron Eberle: “Colloidal Sticky Spheres – Inter-particle Potential Spanning the Fluid/Gel Phase Transition.”
• Poster by Dennis Kalman: “Microstructure Measurements of Shear Thickening, Concentrated, Near Hard Sphere, Colloidal Dispersions via 1-2 Plane Flow-SANS.”

ACNS 2008 Short Courses

QENS

A hands-on look at quasielastic neutron scattering for the investigation of mobility in soft condensed matter.

• An introduction to Quasielastic Neutron Scattering
  Dr. J.R.D. Copley (National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST Center for Neutron Research)
• QENS in the energy domain: Backscattering and Time-of-Flight
  Prof. A. Sokolov, Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron
• QENS in the time domain: Hands-on Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy
  Dr. A. Faraone, (Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Maryland and National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST Center for Neutron Research)
  • Faraone Handout
  • Faraone Exercise #1
  • Faraone Exercise #2
• Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Neutron Scattering: Polymer Melt and Solution Dynamics
  Prof. G. Smith, Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Utah
• The Influence of trehalsoe on melting and dynamics in dehydrated phospholipids bilayers
  Prof. J. Maranas, Department of Chemical Engineering, Penn State University

SANS-Reflectometry

• Overview of SANS Technique and Its Application to Soft Matter Research (Paul Butler)
• The Basic Theory of SANS (Wei-Ren Chen)
• Colloid Interactions in Solution (Yun Liu)
• Two Yukawa Fluid Matlab Code (Yun Liu)
  • Manual (Yun Liu)
• SANS of Soft Colloids and Nanoemulsions (Thom Mason)
• Rheo-SANS: Structure-Property Relations under Flow and Dynamics (Norman Wagner)
• Introduction of Neutron Reflectometry (Greg Smith)
• Off Specular Scattering: What It Can Tell You and What You Need to Know (Bill Hamilton)
• Introduction to Neutron Spin Echo as a Probe of Dynamics in Complex Fluids (Roger Pynn)
• Neutron Reflectometry (Roger Pynn)

Neutron Scattering Lectures