A novel experimental approach for nanostructure analysis: simultaneous small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering.

ABSTRACT: Exploiting small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering (SAXS/SANS) on the same sample volume at the same time provides complementary nanoscale structural information in two different contrast situations. Unlike an independent experimental approach, the truly combined SAXS/SANS experimental approach ensures the exactness of the probed samples, particularly for in situ studies. Here, an advanced portable SAXS system that is dimensionally suitable for installation in the D22 zone of ILL is introduced. The SAXS apparatus is based on a Rigaku switchable copper/molybdenum microfocus rotating-anode X-ray generator and a DECTRIS detector with a changeable sample-to-detector distance of up to 1.6 m in a vacuum chamber. A case study is presented to demonstrate the uniqueness of the newly establi

SUBMITTER: Metwalli E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7312133 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature