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Home » Neutron Science News & Highlights
An ORNL-led team's observation of certain crystalline ice phases challenges accepted theories about super-cooled water and non-crystalline ice. Their findings, reported in the journal Nature, will also lead to better understanding of ice and its various phases found on other planets, moons and elsewhere in space. Credit: Jill Hemman/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy
Unexpected observation of ice at low temperature, high pressure questions ice, water theory
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    Neutron Sciences researchers honored at 2019 UT-Battelle Awards Night
  • Researchers led by Brookhaven National Laboratory used neutrons at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source to aid in deciphering the mechanism underlying scandium fluoride’s ability to shrink upon heating. (Left) Kate Page, formerly of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Brookhaven Lab physicist Emil Bozin, and ORNL instrument scientist Joerg Neuefeind. Credit: Genevieve Martin/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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  • Researchers from Aarhus University, Denmark, are using neutron scattering at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop a novel technique to analyze materials exhibiting exotic types of magnetic behavior. Shown here is bixbyite, a manganese oxide mineral found in South Africa, that experiences an unusual magnetic phase transition at low temperatures. (Credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
    Obtaining order in the “frustrated” landscape of disordered magnetism
  • The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has resumed producing neutrons for research at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), which is now operating at full power after an outage. Facility improvements and significant upgrades were made to 10 of 12 neutron beamline instruments during the HFIR outage. (ORNL File Photo)
    HFIR upgrades ensure continued world-leading neutron research
  • Interior view of the upgraded collimator at HFIR’s General Purpose Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (GP-SANS) instrument. Collimators are used by scientists to produce parallel beams of neutrons before they reach the material being studied. Credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin
    Ten of 12 HFIR instruments upgraded
  • Corning Incorporated senior research scientist Ying Shi (left) uses neutron scattering to understand the structure–property correlation in glass to make new compositions. Her son, Albert Song (right), wrote data analysis code for her project and joined her on a recent visit to the Spallation Neutron Source. Credit: Genevieve Martin/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy.
    The way is clear: CORNING taps neutrons for developing new glass compositions
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