CHRNS Science Highlights

2007

• The Density Minimum in Deeply Supercooled Confined Water
• Bose-Einstein Condensate of Magnons in Coupled Spin Ladders
• Discovery of Zone Boundary Soft Modes in the Relaxor Ferroelectric PMN
• Hidden Order in URu2Si2
• Quantum Coherence in a Spin Chain
• The Nanoscale Building Blocks of Concrete
• Nanostructured Liquids from Disordered Surfactant melts Blended with Functional Homopolymers
• Glass Transition Behavior of Thin Film Miscible Binary Polymer-Polymer Blends
• Melting in Dehydrated Lipid Bilayers
• Revealing Light-Enhanced Protein Activity with Neutrons

2006

• Quantum Rotational Dynamics of Methane in the Metal-Organic Framework MOF5
• Counter-ion Dynamics and the Mechanical Properties of Fuel Cell Membranes
• A Two-Dimensional Magnetically Ordered Phase on a Geometrically Frustrated Lattice
• Field-Induced Order and Spin Waves in the Pyrochlore Antiferromagnet Tb2Ti2O7
• Resonance Mode in the Electron-Doped Superconducting Cuprate Pr.88LaCe.12CuO4
• Quasiparticle Breakdown in a Quantum Spin Liquid
• Shear-rate Dependent Structure of Polymer-stabilized TiO2 Dispersions
• Changes in Blood Protein Structure under Static and Hydrodynamic Shear Conditions
• Why are Double-Network Hydrogels So Tough?
• A Mechanism for the Onset of Bioactivity in Biomolecules
• The Dynamic Transition in RNA is Solvent-Induced
• Studying Intrinsically Disordered Proteins by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering

2005

• Pressure Dependence of Transitions in Supercooled, Confined Liquid Water
• Diffusion of Water on Zirconia Nanoparticles
• Phase Behavior and Local Dynamics of Concentrated Triblock Copolymer Micelles
• Rheo-SANS: Gap-Resolved SANS of Shear-induced Alignment of Wormlike Micelles
• Methyl Dynamics as a Probe of Protein Structure and Function
• Neutron Scattering Study of Spin Excitations in the Singlet Ground State of SrCu2(BO3)2
• Spin Chirality on a Two-dimensional Frustrated Lattice
• Inter-granular Giant Magnetoresistance in a Spontaneously Phase Separated Perovskite

2004

• Counterion Associative Behavior with Flexible Polyelectrolytes
• Anomalous Hydration Water Dynamics at a Hydrophobic Protein Interface
• Fragile-to-Strong Liquid Transition in Deeply Supercooled Confined Water
• Neutron Spin Echo Study of a Diluted "Spin-Ice"
• Ordering and Spin Waves in NaNiO2: A Stacked Quantum Ferromagnet
• Energetics of Membrane Fusion
• Stabilizing Highly Immiscible Polymer Blends

2003

• Fast Dynamics in Stabilization of Proteins
• Bio-Membrane Flexibility Studied in the Presence of Cholesterol and Salt
• Dynamics of Glucose Solutions
• ATP-Induced Shape Change in a Model Protein Complexed in Chaperonins
• Biomaterials Constructed Via Designed Molecular Self-Assembly
• Scattering Studies of the Structure of Colloid-Polymer Suspensions and Gels
• Spinons, Solitons, and Breathers in Spin-1/2 Chains
• Multicriticality in the Bragg-Glass Transition

2002

• Performance Enhancements of the CHRNS 30-m SANS Instrument
• Scaling of Membrane Phase Dynamics
• Observation of Liquid-Glass-Liquid and Glass-Glass Transitions in the L64/D₂O Copolymer Micellar System
• Magnetic Cluster Sizes in Magnetic Recording Disks
• Emergent Excitations in a Geometrically Frustrated Magnet
• Probing Nanoscale Disorder with Neutron Tunneling Spectroscopy

2001

• Ferromagnetism and Spontaneous Vortex Formation in Superconducting ErNi₂B₂C
• Pressure-Induced Phase Transition in Surfactant Micelles
• Haldane Quantum Spin-1 Chain in a Magnetic Field
• Structure of Local Spin Excitations in a Geometrically Frustrated Antiferromagnet
• Probing the Structure of Aerosol Nanodroplets
• Nanoporous Ultra-Low Dielectric Constant Materials
• Native and Partially Unfolded Proteins: Neutron Inelastic Scattering and Simulations
• Atomic Motions in Confined Polymer Films

2000

• Direct Observation of Superheating and Supercooling of Vortex Matter
• Magnetic Correlations in a d-Electron Heavy Fermion: LiV₂O₄
• Crosslinked Micellar Gel: A Promising New Material for Environmental Remediation and Controlled Drug Delivery

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