POLYSOLVAT 16 at JCNS, Workshop 2026

Deuterium labelling is a very powerful tool for neutron scattering techniques, especially on soft matter. The ability to utilize selective contrast variation in order to highlight specific areas within a material or mixture is one of the main benefits of neutron scattering over the corresponding x-ray techniques. This contribution gives a brief introduction in deuteration procedures by H/D...

For many decades, researchers have studied polymer solutions using small angle scattering techniques and attempted to explain deviations (i.e., excess scattering) from classical models. While these phenomena are sometimes explained away as uncontrolled experimental factors (e.g., dust), there can be a polymeric origin to the excess scattering, but few interpretable, physics-based models exist...