Synchrotron radiation in polymer science.

Infrared Science with Synchrotron Radiation

Synchrotron radiation is best known as a source of X-rays, but it is also a source for VUV to soft-Xrays photons. However, it was realised in the early 90’s that this source can also be exploited in the infrared energy domain. Even if in some frequency regions (roughly 30 microns and below) the total photon flux emitted by the synchrotron source remains inferior to that of a thermal source, the...

Molecular Environmental Science Using Synchrotron Radiation:

SYMPOSIUM O Synchrotron radiation and materials science

Synchrotron radiation techniques in materials and environmental science.

Synchrotron-based techniques have had, over the last 30 years, a major and profound effect on the study of complex materials and on environmental science. Their ability to obtain accurate information at the atomic and molecular level on both local and longrange structures, together with the increasing ability to undertake time-resolved structural studies, has transformed our understanding of se...

Synchrotron radiation computed laminography for polymer composite failure studies

Synchrotron radiation computed laminography is applied to the three-dimensional micro-imaging of damage in large polymer composite plates with high spatial resolution. The influence of different experimental conditions is studied with respect to measurement time optimization, dose minimization and reduction of artefacts in the reconstructed images. Failures like delaminations, transverse ply cr...