Neutrons, X-rays, and Light: Scattering Methods Applied to Soft Condensed Matter, Second Edition addresses the possibilities provided by scattering techniques in the study of soft matter. It fills the gap between fundamental scattering processes, which are described by the general theoretical framework of elastic and quasi-elastic interaction of radiation with matter and state-of-the-art applications to specific soft matter systems. The first part of the book is dedicated to the use of general principles for the measurement and analysis of scattered intensity: elementary scattering process, data reduction, general theorems, and reciprocal space and its link to structural and dynamical information in direct space. In the second part, methods and techniques are further discussed, including resolution effects, contrast variation, static and dynamic light scattering, quasi-elastic neutron scattering, and reflectometry and grazing incidence techniques. Part three deals with the state of the art of scattering studies of typical soft matter systems (polymers, self-assembled surfactant systems, microemulsions, liquid crystals, colloids, aggregates, biological systems) with dedicated chapters for particle interactions, and modelling. Part four highlights special applications, from turbid media to scattering under external constraints, and industrial applications.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Using general principles 1 General introduction: soft matter systems & scattering experiments 2 a & b General theorems, absolute intensity & initial data treatment 3 Inverse scattering problem & Indirect Fourier transformation 4 Generalized Indirect Fourier transformation and Deconvolution 5 From real to reciprocal space: scattering information from real space images Part 2 Methods 6 Instrumentation & resolution effects for small-angle X-ray & neutron scattering 7 The concept of contrast & contrast variation 8 Static light scattering 9 Dynamic light scattering of dilute suspensions 10 Inelastic neutron scattering 11 Neutron & X-ray reflectivity and Grazing Incidence Scattering Part 3 Revealing microstructures of soft condensed matter 12 Introduction to Polymers static scattering 13 Self assembled morphologies as paradigms for small-angle scattering: Surfactant systems and lyotropic liquid crystals 14 Microemulsions 15 Interacting colloidal systems, gels, glasses 16 Model fitting & simulation techniques for small-angle scattering data analysis 17 Polymer dynamics 18 Analysis of small-angle scattering data of complex biological systems 19 Macromolecular & supramolecular assemblies Part 4 Special applications 20 Scattering experiments under external constraints 21 Polymer processing: Application of scattering methods to polyurethane materials 22 Light scattering in turbid media 23 Use of scattering techniques in industry 24 Applications of neutron reflectometry to soft matter & biological systems 25 Weak aggregation used for separation technologies 26 Time-of-Flight neutron spectroscopy: Characterisation of relaxation modes at the molecular scale
Authors
Peter Lindner Retired soft matter scientist, formerly at Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble, France.. Peter Lindner has been working for 35 years as a soft-matter scientist at ILL. He is an expert in small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), and has been for 25 years responsible for the SANS instrument D11. Retired since 2017, he was in charge of the coordination of its user operation, and project leader of instrument upgrades and sample environment development, in particular of online rheology. Among others, his research interests lie in the structure and dynamics of complex fluids, like lyotropic lamellar phases, under non-equilibrium conditions, such as shear.In 1990 he founded, together with T. Zemb, the Bombannes summer school on scattering methods applied to soft condensed matter. Together, they edited the first edition of this proposed volume. Julian Oberdisse Soft matter scientist, CNRS director of research, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb Montpellier CNRS & University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France. Julian Oberdisse started his career as instrument scientist at the French national neutron source Orph�e (Laboratoire L�on Brillouin, Saclay). For the past twenty years, he has been working at University of Montpellier on the experimental determination of microstructures and dynamics of soft matter (self-assembled systems, colloids, polymer, nanocomposites). His main techniques are small-angle scattering of neutrons and X-rays, complemented by computer simulations, Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy, and light scattering. He is also strongly involved in advisory boards of European research centres in neutron scattering. After having been a student in 1996, and teaching since 2004, he is currently co-organizing the Bombannes summer school with Peter Lindner.
