Early Career Impact Award Seminar: Katie Weigandt (ChemE Ph.D. '12)
Beyond Basic Small Angle Neutron Scattering: RheoSANS and Far Field Interferometry
Katie Weigandt (ChemE Ph.D. ‘12)
NIST Center for Neutron Research
Winner, 2025 Early Career Impact Award
Abstract
Neutron scattering has been used to characterize the nanostructure of materials for decades, but measuring imperfect samples, or even simple materials under extreme yet real world conditions remains challenging. Recent advances in rheoSANS and the development of a far field interferometer instrument seek to address these challenges by enabling scattering during industrially relevant flows, and tomography with nanoscale structural information on heterogeneous and hierarchical materials.
During this talk I will give highlights on recent developments and applications of rheoSANS and if time allows I will also share progress on the development and applications of a two grating far field interferometer for the study of complex heterogeneous materials.
Bio
Katie Weigandt is a staff scientist at the NIST Center for…
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Huimin Zhao, Ph.D.
Steven L. Miller Chair, Professor
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
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