Neutron Scattering, Energy & Environment
Environmental issues (including clean, renewable energy) are perhaps the most serious problems industrialized nations will have to face in the 21st century. Rising energy consumption coupled to increasing world population, dwindling fossil fuel resources, and environmental consequences of human activity are rapidly becoming critical concerns at the planetary scale.
Novel approaches to energy production, storage, and distribution, pollution prevention, environmental cleanup and protection, carbon sequestration, and raw materials sources are urgently needed. The development of new functional materials and a better understanding of natural materials and processes will play a central role in this endeavor. Neutron scattering -in all its diversity- will contribute significantly to the arsenal of sophisticated materials characterization techniques that are quickly becoming standard tools of scientists and engineers involved in energy and environmental research.
The goal of the neutron school is to introduce a variety of neutron scattering techniques to the students and demonstrate how they complement other analytical methods in elucidating material structure and properties. Besides introductory lectures on neutron scattering, experts will present contemporary research on materials related to aspects of energy and environmental issues. Afternoons will be devoted to hands-on exercises and neutron scattering data analysis (small-angle scattering, reflectometry, powder diffraction, pair distribution function analysis, neutron vibrational spectroscopy, radiography). A variety of materials related to energy and environmental issues will be selected for these exercises.
2011 Local Organizing Committee
- School Director
James Rhyne
rhyne@lanl.gov - School Co-Director
Heinz Nakotte
hnakotte@nmsu.edu - School Coordinator
Lisa J. Padilla
ljp@lanl.gov
505.667.5649 - Local Organizing Committee
Luke L. Daemen
lld@lanl.gov
505.667.9695 - John C. Gordon
jgordon@lanl.gov
505.665.6962 - Monika A. Hartl
hartl@lanl.gov
505.665.2375 - Donald Hickmott
dhickmott@lanl.gov
505.667.8753 - Public Information Specialist
E. Fernandez
elena@lanl.gov
Neutron scattering -in all its diversity- will contribute significantly to the arsenal of sophisticated materials characterization techniques that are quickly becoming standard tools of scientists and engineers involved in energy and environmental research.