A method to weigh polymer films and adsorbates during neutron reflectivity measurements

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With the advent of TS-II, there is a drive to probe more complex and multicomponent systems using neutron reflectivity. In such studies, confidence associated with model Nb fits will be significantly enhanced by auxillary or supporting measurements to assay different aspects of a system. These will be particularly useful where an interface is being formed or compositionally manipulated during the course of an NR experiment. To date we have made good use of electrochemical and spectroscopic assays when probing polymers undergoing (electro)chemical transformations or bond forming biomolecule immobilisations and in this proposal we seek to develop a methodology of more general benefit. This will combine surface acoustic wave based gravimetry-the most general probe of all-to determine the mass of material in contact with the NR reflecting surface, with NR that probe the compositional profile

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24077548
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24077548
Provenance
Creator Professor Robert Hillman; Dr Andrew Glidle
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-10-01T07:46:20Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-10-03T00:36:13Z