Recent Advances in Small-Angle Neutron Scattering

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to invite you to submit a contribution to a Special Issue on Recent Advances in Small-Angle Neutron Scattering in the Journal Applied Sciences.

Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) allows scientists of virtually all fields to conduct their respective experiments, ranging from biological and medical investigations, food science, polymers and various areas of soft condensed matter to magnetic interactions, data storage and material properties of turbine blades in material science and hard matter investigations.

Advances in SANS allow a very diverse and multi-pronged approach to problems in all these fields by improvements and advances in instrument technology and design, neutron optics, data reduction and sample environments. A combination of advancements in all those fields allows the researchers to deepen their knowledge about their specific samples and to investigate dedicated problems by providing the appropriate tools.

This Special Issue is focused on collecting those advancements to give an overview over the last few years. An indicative list of advancements that could be reported in this issue are:

1. New instrument designs
2. Instrument upgrades and fundamental improvements
3. Sample environment technologies and experimental support
4. Data treatment
5. Exemplary experiments on systems that allow a general use, also for other systems
6. Dedicated different geometries/techniques linked with SANS, such as GISANS

All original articles, case reports, and review articles will be welcome.

Dr. Sebastian Jaksch
Guest Editor

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