5th Year in Neutron Diffraction

Neutron Diffraction Experiments

This ISEN award supported research toward improving the energy efficiency of actuators. The focused research objective was to develop next-generation shape memory alloy (SMA) models and structures, to demonstrate this new technology in targeted near-term applications on airplanes. Two research avenues were pursued to enable development of this new technology: 1) neutron diffraction experiments ...

Biological Neutron Diffraction

Neutron Diffraction: Applications in Environmental Issues

Maintaining and remediating the quality of water, air and soil, so that Earth will be able to sustainably support human population growth, is one of the great challenges of our generation. The scarcity of water, both in terms of quantity as well as quality, poses a significant threat to the man's well-being. Environmental technology is set to play a key role in the shaping of current environmen...

Magnetic structure of greigite (Fe3S4) probed by neutron powder diffraction and polarized neutron diffraction

[1] We have investigated greigite (Fe3S4) using a combination of neutron powder diffraction and polarized neutron diffraction to give the first unambiguous assignment of its magnetic structure. Our results confirm that greigite has a collinear ferrimagnetic structure with antiferromagnetic coupling between the tetrahedral (A) and octahedral (B) sites. Our analysis also indicates that greigite d...

Fast Neutron Irradiated Magnetite and Haematite Investigated by Neutron Diffraction

In this paper, we present new experimental results about crystallographic and magnetic properties obtained on magnetite Fe,04 and haematite a-FqO, samples irradiated by fast neutrons. Polycrystalline rods were irradiated at 350K by fast neutrons inside the core of Melusine nuclear reactor (CENG) in Grenoble at various fluences (4 lO", 9.2 1019 and 20 10'' neutronslcm~). The irradiated samples h...