The NXS Class of 2014by Kathy Chambers 19 Nov, 2014 in
Every summer for the past 16 years, the Department of Energy has invited the best and brightest graduates from across the country to attend the National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering (NXS). This year, 65 graduate students attending North American universities, and studying physics, chemistry, materials science, or related fields, participated in the 14-day whirlwind emersion into national user facilities to learn in a hands-on environment how to use neutrons and X-rays in their research. This educational program is jointly conducted by Argonne National Laboratory's Advanced Photon Source and Materials Science Division and Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Neutron Scattering Science Division. Every material’s physical and chemical properties are determined by how the atoms of its different chemical elements are bound together and arranged. X-ray scattering has been used to gather clues about materials’ atomic structures for about a century. Once reactors were built that could provide intense neutron beams, researchers began to use scattered neutron beams to more clearly see different aspects of the atomic structures. These scattering experiments have produced important developments in preventing hydrocarbon deposits in automobile engines, in improving manufacturing techniques to make products stronger, in developing antiviral compounds, and in the search for superconductors. The scope of the NXS educational program is immense. The DOE Office of Science’s... Related Topics: Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, High Flux Isotope Reactor, National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering (NXS), neutron scattering, NXS, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Spallation Neutron Source, x-ray scattering Read more... |
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