Advanced grazing-incidence techniques for modern soft-matter materials analysis

Hexemer, Alexander; Müller-Buschbaum, Peter

doi:10.1107/S2052252514024178

Advanced grazing-incidence techniques for modern soft-matter materials analysis

Journal Article · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2015 · IUCrJ

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252514024178· OSTI ID:1209548

Hexemer, Alexander ^[1]; Müller-Buschbaum, Peter ^[2]

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., CA (United States)
Physik-Department, Lehrstuhl für Funktionelle Materialien, Technische Universität München, Garching (Germany); cNanosystems Initiative Munich,, Munchen (Germany)

The complex nano-morphology of modern soft-matter materials is successfully probed with advanced grazing-incidence techniques. Based on grazing-incidence small- and wide-angle X-ray and neutron scattering (GISAXS, GIWAXS, GISANS and GIWANS), new possibilities arise which are discussed with selected examples. Due to instrumental progress, highly interesting possibilities for local structure analysis in this material class arise from the use of micro- and nanometer-sized X-ray beams in micro- or nanofocused GISAXS and GIWAXS experiments. The feasibility of very short data acquisition times down to milliseconds creates exciting possibilities forin situandin operandoGISAXS and GIWAXS studies. Tuning the energy of GISAXS and GIWAXS in the soft X-ray regime and in time-of flight GISANS allows the tailoring of contrast conditions and thereby the probing of more complex morphologies. In addition, recent progress in software packages, useful for data analysis for advanced grazing-incidence techniques, is discussed.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1209548

Journal Information:: IUCrJ, Journal Name: IUCrJ Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 2; ISSN 2052-2525; ISSN IUCRAJ

Publisher:: International Union of CrystallographyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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