Neutrons in Soft Matter

TOYOKO IMAE, PhD, is a professor at the Graduate Institute of Engineering at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, working on various aspects of polymers and nanomaterials, and a professor emeritus at Nagoya University, Japan. TOSHIJI KANAYA, PhD, is a professor at the Institute for Chemical Research at Kyoto University in Japan, where he specializes in areas of polymer physics. Professor Kanaya has contributed to the book Polyolefin Composites, also from Wiley.MICHIHIRO FURUSAKA, PhD, is a professor at the Graduate School of Engineering at Hokkaido University, Japan, working in the field of neutron instrumentation and optics.NAOYA TORIKAI, PhD, is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Engineering at Mie University, Japan, working in research areas of polymer physics, after serving as an instrument scientist of a pulsed neutron reflectometer at High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK).

• Preface viiContributors ixI Neutron Scattering 1I.1 Basics Concepts 1Ferenc MezeiII Instrumentation 29II.1 Small-Angle Neutron Scattering 29II.1.1 Small-Angle Neutron Scattering at Reactor Sources 29Kell MortensenII.1.2 SANS Instruments at Pulsed Neutron Sources 57Toshiya OtomoII.1.3 Ultra-Small-Angle Neutron Scattering 73II.1.3.1 Bonse–Hart USANS Instrument 73Michael AgamalianII.1.3.2 Focusing USANS Instrument 94Satoshi KoizumiII.2 Neutron Reflectometry 115Naoya TorikaiII.3 Quasielastic and Inelastic Neutron Scattering 147II.3.1 Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy 147Michael Monkenbusch and Dieter RichterII.3.2 Neutron Backscattering 183Bernhard Frick and Dan NeumannII.3.3 Time-of-Flight Spectrometry 203Ruep E. LechnerII.4 Neutron Imaging 269Nobuyuki TakenakaIII Data Treatment and Sample Environment 285III.1 Practical Aspects of SANS Experiments 285George D. WignallIII.2 Structure Analysis 311Hideki SetoIII.3 Calculation of Real Space Parameters and Ab Initio Models from Isotropic Elastic SANS Patterns 329Peter V. Konarev and Dmitri I. SvergunIII.4 Contrast Variation 351Mitsuhiro HiraiIII.5 Sample Environment: Soft Matter Sample Environment for Small-Angle Neutron Scattering and Neutron Reflectometry 383Peter Lindner, Ralf Schweins, and Richard A. CampbellIV Applications 415IV.1 Hierarchical Structure of Small Molecules 415Tsang-Lang LinIV.2 Structure of Dendritic Polymers and Their Films 435Koji Mitamura and Toyoko ImaeIV.3 Dynamics of Polymers 455Toshiji Kanaya and Barbara J.GabrysIV.4 Inhomogeneous Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Soft Matter 493Mitsuhiro ShibayamaIV.5 Protein Dynamics Studied by Neutron Incoherent Scattering 517Mikio Kataoka and Hiroshi NakagawaIV.6 Polymer Interfaces and Thin Films 539David G. BucknallIV.7 Neutron Diffraction from Polymers and Other Soft Matter 571Geoffrey R. MitchellV Current Facilities 601V.1 Pulsed Neutron Sources and Facilities 601Masatoshi AraiV.2 Reactor Overview 621Colin J. CarlileIndex 643