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Title: Demonstration of Feasibility of X-Ray Free Electron Laser Studies of Dynamics of Nanoparticles in Entangled Polymer Melts

Abstract

The recent advent of hard x-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) opens new areas of science due to their exceptional brightness, coherence, and time structure. In principle, such sources enable studies of dynamics of condensed matter systems over times ranging from femtoseconds to seconds. However, the studies of ‘‘slow’’ dynamics in polymeric materials still remain in question due to the characteristics of the XFEL beam and concerns about sample damage. Here we demonstrate the feasibility of measuring the relaxation dynamics of gold nanoparticles suspended in polymer melts using X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS), while also monitoring eventual X-ray induced damage. In spite of inherently large pulse-to-pulse intensity and position variations of the XFEL beam, measurements can be realized at slow time scales. The X-ray induced damage and heating are less than initially expected for soft matter materials.

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  1. Sogang Univ., Seoul (Korea, Republic of). Dept. of Physics
  2. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  3. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
  4. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS)
  5. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (Germany); Univ. of Siegen (Germany). Dept. of Physik
  6. Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics
  7. Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States). Polymer Science and Engineering Dept.
  8. Pohang Accelerator Lab. (PAL) (Korea, Republic of)
  9. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (Germany)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States); Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States); Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division
OSTI Identifier:
1624733
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-04ER46126; FG02-04ER46173; SC0001805
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Scientific Reports
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 4; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Science & Technology - Other Topics

Citation Formats

Carnis, Jerome, Cha, Wonsuk, Wingert, James, Kang, Jinback, Jiang, Zhang, Song, Sanghoon, Sikorski, Marcin, Robert, Aymeric, Gutt, Christian, Chen, San-Wen, Dai, Yeling, Ma, Yicong, Guo, Hongyu, Lurio, Laurence B., Shpyrko, Oleg, Narayanan, Suresh, Cui, Mengmeng, Kosif, Irem, Emrick, Todd, Russell, Thomas P., Lee, Hae Cheol, Yu, Chung-Jong, Grübel, Gerhard, Sinha, Sunil K., and Kim, Hyunjung. Demonstration of Feasibility of X-Ray Free Electron Laser Studies of Dynamics of Nanoparticles in Entangled Polymer Melts. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1038/srep06017.
Carnis, Jerome, Cha, Wonsuk, Wingert, James, Kang, Jinback, Jiang, Zhang, Song, Sanghoon, Sikorski, Marcin, Robert, Aymeric, Gutt, Christian, Chen, San-Wen, Dai, Yeling, Ma, Yicong, Guo, Hongyu, Lurio, Laurence B., Shpyrko, Oleg, Narayanan, Suresh, Cui, Mengmeng, Kosif, Irem, Emrick, Todd, Russell, Thomas P., Lee, Hae Cheol, Yu, Chung-Jong, Grübel, Gerhard, Sinha, Sunil K., & Kim, Hyunjung. Demonstration of Feasibility of X-Ray Free Electron Laser Studies of Dynamics of Nanoparticles in Entangled Polymer Melts. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep06017
Carnis, Jerome, Cha, Wonsuk, Wingert, James, Kang, Jinback, Jiang, Zhang, Song, Sanghoon, Sikorski, Marcin, Robert, Aymeric, Gutt, Christian, Chen, San-Wen, Dai, Yeling, Ma, Yicong, Guo, Hongyu, Lurio, Laurence B., Shpyrko, Oleg, Narayanan, Suresh, Cui, Mengmeng, Kosif, Irem, Emrick, Todd, Russell, Thomas P., Lee, Hae Cheol, Yu, Chung-Jong, Grübel, Gerhard, Sinha, Sunil K., and Kim, Hyunjung. Mon . "Demonstration of Feasibility of X-Ray Free Electron Laser Studies of Dynamics of Nanoparticles in Entangled Polymer Melts". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep06017. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1624733.
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title = {Demonstration of Feasibility of X-Ray Free Electron Laser Studies of Dynamics of Nanoparticles in Entangled Polymer Melts},
author = {Carnis, Jerome and Cha, Wonsuk and Wingert, James and Kang, Jinback and Jiang, Zhang and Song, Sanghoon and Sikorski, Marcin and Robert, Aymeric and Gutt, Christian and Chen, San-Wen and Dai, Yeling and Ma, Yicong and Guo, Hongyu and Lurio, Laurence B. and Shpyrko, Oleg and Narayanan, Suresh and Cui, Mengmeng and Kosif, Irem and Emrick, Todd and Russell, Thomas P. and Lee, Hae Cheol and Yu, Chung-Jong and Grübel, Gerhard and Sinha, Sunil K. and Kim, Hyunjung},
abstractNote = {The recent advent of hard x-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) opens new areas of science due to their exceptional brightness, coherence, and time structure. In principle, such sources enable studies of dynamics of condensed matter systems over times ranging from femtoseconds to seconds. However, the studies of ‘‘slow’’ dynamics in polymeric materials still remain in question due to the characteristics of the XFEL beam and concerns about sample damage. Here we demonstrate the feasibility of measuring the relaxation dynamics of gold nanoparticles suspended in polymer melts using X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS), while also monitoring eventual X-ray induced damage. In spite of inherently large pulse-to-pulse intensity and position variations of the XFEL beam, measurements can be realized at slow time scales. The X-ray induced damage and heating are less than initially expected for soft matter materials.},
doi = {10.1038/srep06017},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = 1,
volume = 4,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Aug 11 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Mon Aug 11 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}

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