DPOLY Short Course: X-ray and Neutron Scattering for Polymer Science

The DPOLY short course will introduce the principles of X-ray and Neutron Scattering from polymeric materials. The first part of the course will focus on techniques that probe polymer structure, including transmission scattering, reflectivity and grazing incidence, with emphasis on hard x-ray, soft x-ray and neutron sources. The second part of the course will cover techniques that probe polymer dynamics, including x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy, quasielastic neutron scattering, and neutron spin echo. The course will conclude with an introduction to new challenges and opportunities, such as integration of scattering with other experimental methods, machine learning, and big data.