Porosity of silica Stöber particles determined by spin-echo small angle neutron scattering

Heparin's solution structure determined by small-angle neutron scattering.

Heparin is a linear, anionic polysaccharide that is widely used as a clinical anticoagulant. Despite its discovery 100 years ago in 1916, the solution structure of heparin remains unknown. The solution shape of heparin has not previously been examined in water under a range of concentrations, and here is done so in D2 O solution using small-angle neutron scattering (SANS). Solutions of 10 kDa h...

Polarization optimization of spin-echo small angle scattering instruments.

The polarization optimization in a small angle scattering spin-echo setup is considered, under the depolarization and phase errors that occur in field transition regions by improper adjustment of inclined magnetized foils as pi-flippers. Various correction procedures are discussed. In these setups with precession fields perpendicular to the beam directions, corrections can be reduced strongly b...

Small angle neutron scattering

Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) is a technique that enables to probe the 3-D structure of materials on a typical size range lying from ∼ 1 nm up to ∼ a few 100 nm, the obtained information being statistically averaged on a sample whose volume is ∼ 1 cm3. This very rich technique enables to make a full structural characterization of a given object of nanometric dimensions (radius of gyrati...

MnO 3 by small angle neutron scattering

Structural and mechanical properties of cardiolipin lipid bilayers determined using neutron spin echo, small angle neutron and X-ray scattering, and molecular dynamics simulations.

The detailed structural and mechanical properties of a tetraoleoyl cardiolipin (TOCL) bilayer were determined using neutron spin echo (NSE) spectroscopy, small angle neutron and X-ray scattering (SANS and SAXS, respectively), and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. We used MD simulations to develop a scattering density profile (SDP) model, which was then utilized to jointly refine SANS and SAX...