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