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Applications of Synchrotron Light to Scattering and Diffraction in Materials and Life Sciences

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  1. Marian Gomez
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 776)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-14
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  2. Bases of Synchrotron Radiation, Light Sources, and Features of X-Ray Scattering Beamlines

    • M.C. García-Gutiérrez, D.R. Rueda
    Pages 1-22

  3. Scattering of Soft Condensed Matter: From Fundaments to Application

    • N. Stribeck
    Pages 23-60

  4. A Basic Introduction to Grazing Incidence Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering

    • P. Müller-Buschbaum
    Pages 61-89

  5. Fundaments of Soft Condensed Matter Scattering and Diffraction with Microfocus Techniques

    • C. Riekel, M. Burghammer, R. Davies, R. Gebhardt, D. Popov
    Pages 91-104

  6. The Use of Scattering and Spectroscopic Synchrotron Radiation Methods in Materials Science

    • W. Bras
    Pages 105-132

  7. Synchrotron Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering Studies of Colloidal Suspensions

    • T. Narayanan
    Pages 133-156

  8. Applications of Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction to the Study of the Phase Behavior in Liquid Crystalline Polymers

    • E. Pérez, J.P. Fernández-Blázquez, A. Martnez-Gómez, A. Bello, M.L. Cerrada, R. Benavente et al.
    Pages 157-182

  9. Structural Analysis of Biological and Technical Nanocomposites by X-Ray Scattering

    • P. Nawanit, H. Zhou, B. Chu, C. Burger, B.S. Hsiao
    Pages 183-198

  10. Application of Non-crystalline Diffraction with Microfocus to Carbon Fibres

    • D. Cazorla-Amorós, D. Lozano-Castelló, M. Müller
    Pages 199-216

  11. Simultaneous Calorimetric, Dielectric, and SAXS/WAXS Experiments During Polymer Crystallization

    • A. Wurm, A.A. Minakov, C. Schick
    Pages 217-230

  12. Discovering New Features of Protein Complexes Structures by Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering

    • C.L.P. Oliveira, T. Vorup-Jensen, C.B.F. Andersen, G.R. Andersen, J.S. Pedersen
    Pages 231-244

  13. Protein Shape and Assembly Studied with X-Ray Solution Scattering: Fundaments and Practice

    • R.M. Buey, P. Chacón, J.M. Andreu, J. Fernando Díaz
    Pages 245-263

  14. Diagnosis Applications of Non-Crystalline Diffraction of Collagen Fibres: Breast Cancer and Skin Diseases

    • M. Costa, N. Benseny-Cases, M. Cócera, C.V. Teixeira, M. Alsina, J. Cladera et al.
    Pages 265-280

  15. X-Ray Diffraction from Live Muscle Fibres

    • A. Svensson, J. Bordas, F.B. de la Cuesta
    Pages 281-314

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 1-4
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In a ?rst approximation, certainly rough, one can de?ne as non-crystalline materials those which are neither single-crystals nor poly-crystals. Within this category, we canincludedisorderedsolids,softcondensed matter,andlivesystemsamong others. Contrary to crystals, non-crystalline materials have in common that their intrinsic structures cannot be exclusively described by a discrete and periodical function but by a continuous function with short range of order. Structurally these systems have in common the relevance of length scales between those de?ned by the atomic and the macroscopic scale. In a simple ?uid, for example, mobile molecules may freely exchange their positions, so that their new positions are permutations of their old ones. By contrast, in a complex ?uid large groups of molecules may be interc- nected so that the permutation freedom within the group is lost, while the p- mutation between the groups is possible. In this case, the dominant characteristic length, which may de?ne the properties of the system, is not the molecular size but that of the groups. A central aspect of some non-crystalline materials is that they may self-organize. This is of particular importance for Soft-matter materials. Self-organization is characterized by the spontaneous creation of regular structures at different length scales which may exhibit a certain hierarchy that controls the properties of the system. X-ray scattering and diffraction have been for more than a hundred years an essential technique to characterize the structure of materials. Quite often scattering anddiffractionphenomenaexhibitedbynon-crystallinematerialshavebeenreferred to as non-crystalline diffraction.

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