Synopses & Reviews
This book provides a wide-ranging, state-of-the-art survey of small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering (SAS) theory (including scattering from fractal systems), instrumentation, data analysis, and new experimental techniques, and emphasizes applications in biology and materials science. These include investigations of nucleic acid-protein complexes; lipoproteins; time-resolved measurements of phospholipid phase transitions; porosity in ceramics; phase separation and defect agglomeration in metals and alloys; catalysts; complex fluids; bulk polymers; and dissolved polymers under flow conditions. The capabilities offered by SAS for exploring such properties as size, shape, structure, morphology, dispersity and interactions of scatterers, on the scale between atomic and macroscopic, are demonstrated. The volume extends and supplements basic texts. It is intended for new practitioners, scientists active in SAS who wish to learn more about applications outside their immediate expertise, and those desirous of exploring the potential applicability of SAS to their research.
Book News Annotation:
Presents the lectures and some of the workshop material from the May
1993 NATO ASI, which offered a state-of-the-art, practical survey of
the field for new and recent practitioners. Among the topics are some
fundamental concepts and techniques useful in small-angle scattering
studies of disordered solids; modern methods of data analysis in
small-angle scattering and light scattering; anomalous small-angle x-
ray scattering (ASAXS); metals and alloys--phase separation and
defect agglomeration; small-angle scattering of catalysts; polymers
in solution-flow techniques; and bulk polymers.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Synopsis:
This text provides a state-of-the-art survey of small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering (SAS) theory (including scattering from fractal systems), instrumentation, data analysis and new experimental techniques and emphasizes applications in biology and materials science.