{"id":3456,"date":"2020-07-14T11:15:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T09:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2024-08-20T16:28:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T14:28:01","slug":"introduction-to-small-and-wide-angle-x-ray-scattering-october-6-7-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/2020\/07\/introduction-to-small-and-wide-angle-x-ray-scattering-october-6-7-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Small and Wide Angle X-Ray Scattering (October 6-7, 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Aims<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This module addressed doctoral students in chemistry, physics, biophysics, and related fields <i>without<\/i> much prior knowledge or experience in scattering theory and experiments. It introduced the basic theoretical and technical concepts of applications of x-ray small angle and wide angle scattering in polymer science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2>Contents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>During the first day of the two-day program the necessary theoretical knowledge were communicated in a series of lectures accompanied by discussions of selected applications and problems. The program of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> day  consisted of hands-on experiments and demonstrations in the lab followed by a tutorial in which the acquired knowledge was used for the analysis of the measured data.<br><span id=\"more-1289\"><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Lectures:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Basic principles of scattering theory: relation between real space structures and scattering patterns, crystal lattices and Bragg reflections, effect of small crystal size, disorder effects, particle scattering.<\/li><li>Technical aspects of x-ray scattering: x-ray sources, monochromators, detectors, typical experimental setups.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4>Hands-on lab course:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"GroupWiseMessageBody\">\n<ul>\n<li>Wide angle x-ray scattering: exemplary scattering patterns of a semicrystalline polymer, determination of crystal lattice parameters, crystal size and crystallinity (qualitative).<\/li>\n<li>Small angle x-ray scattering: Scattering from polymer solutions (determination of size of a protein, study of mesoscopic structures (semicrystalline morphology)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Recommendations for literature<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>R.J. Roe, Methods of X-Ray and neutron scattering in polymer science, Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 2000<\/li>\n<li>Textbooks on solid state physics, e.g. Kittel, Ashcroft Mermin,\u2026.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2>Terms <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Date: October 6-7, 2020<br>Time: 9-18<br>Venue: MLU<br>Group size: maximal 12<br>Language: English<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instructors<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Dr. Thurn-Albrecht, Dr. Maria Ott, Dr. Oleksandr Dolynchuk, Dr. Silvia De Sio, Mohammad Fahimi, Robert Kahl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aims This module addressed doctoral students in chemistry, physics, biophysics, and related fields without much prior knowledge or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/2020\/07\/introduction-to-small-and-wide-angle-x-ray-scattering-october-6-7-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Introduction to Small and Wide Angle X-Ray Scattering (October 6-7, 2020)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[109,110],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3456"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6311,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions\/6311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/irtgpolymers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}