Oak Ridge National Laboratory is home to the Spallation Neutron Source and the High Flux Isotope Reactor. These Office of Science user facilities are two of the most advanced neutron science research facilities in the world.
NASA scientists Santo Padula (left) and Othmane Benafan (right) and Central Florida University student Doug Nicholson at the VULCAN instrument at SNS. (read more...)
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Instrument scientist Leighton Coates at MaNDi, which recently received its first neutrons.
- POWGEN workshop nets PhD student a paper in Journal of Solid State Chemistry
- The next proposal deadline is Sep. 5, 2012, for experiment period Jan.–June 2013.
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Education News
Sunil Sinha, University of California–San Diego Distinguished Professor of Physics.
The second lecture in the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences and SNS Research Forum at ORNL features Sunil Sinha, Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of California–San Diego. The lecture is titled “Grazing Incidence Scattering Studies of Thin Films of Soft Matter and Nanoparticles.”
Interview with Dr. Sinha...
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Featured Publications
- de Kruif, C. G., Huppertz, T., Urban, Volker S., and Petukhov, A. V., “Casein micelles and their internal structure,” Adv Colloid Interfac, 171-172, 36-52 (2012), doi: 10.1016/j.cis.2012.01.002. Read the highlight.
- Tulk, C. A., Klug, D. D., dos Santos, A. M., Karotis, G., Guthrie, M., et al, "Cage occupancies in the high pressure structure H methane hydrate: A neutron diffraction study," J. Chem. Phys. 136, 054502 (2012); DOI: 10.1063/1.3679875. Read the highlight.
Operating Status
SNS On Target 60Hz at 930kW.
HFIR is currently operating at 100% power for operating cycle 441.
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