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.
Highlights
This article provides an overview of what sample environments and experimental techniques have been developed for soft matter research on neutron scattering beamlines with an emphasis, but not exclusively, on time-resolved small angle neutron scattering experiments, where one wants to follow the evolution of structure from an equilibrium state to one that is out of equilibrium, and vice versa
This article gives an overview of diverse sample environments that can be used in neutron scattering techniques applied in the area of soft condensed matter
We have focused on the small angle neutron scattering technique
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. If the sample environment is complicated enough and if the time-resolution is so fast that it becomes difficult to combine the data sets from individual experiments at a later stage, it makes sense to combine such experiments in a single multimodal experiment This adds to the experimental complexity, but the benefit of obtaining complementary data, knowing that the sample is in the same physical state, outweighs the extra required efforts in developing and implementing such sample environments, and represents an excellent growth opportunity for novel neutron scattering instrumentation. This article provides an overview of what sample environments and experimental techniques have been developed for soft matter research on neutron scattering beamlines with an emphasis, but not exclusively, on time-resolved small angle neutron scattering experiments, where one wants to follow the evolution of structure from an equilibrium state to one that is out of equilibrium, and vice versa
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