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2022 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David P. Hoogerheide ◽  
Joseph A. Dura ◽  
Brian B. Maranville ◽  
Charles F. Majkrzak

Liquid cells are an increasingly common sample environment for neutron reflectometry experiments and are critical for measuring the properties of materials at solid/liquid interfaces. Background scattering determines the maximum useful scattering vector, and hence the spatial resolution, of the neutron reflectometry measurement. The primary sources of background are the liquid in the cell reservoir and the materials forming the liquid cell itself. Thus, characterization and mitigation of these background sources are necessary for improvements in the signal-to-background ratio and resolution of neutron reflectometry measurements employing liquid cells. Single-crystal silicon is a common material used for liquid cells due to its low incoherent scattering cross section for neutrons, and the path lengths of the neutron beam through silicon can be several centimetres in modern cell designs. Here, a liquid cell is constructed with a sub-50 µm thick liquid reservoir encased in single-crystal silicon. It is shown that, at high scattering vectors, inelastic scattering from silicon represents a significant portion of the scattering background and is, moreover, structured, confounding efforts to correct for it by established background subtraction techniques. A significant improvement in the measurement quality is achieved using energy-analyzed detection. Energy-analyzed detection reduces the scattering background from silicon by nearly an order of magnitude, and from fluids such as air and liquids by smaller but significant factors. Combining thin liquid reservoirs with energy-analyzed detection and the high flux of the CANDOR polychromatic reflectometer at the NIST Center for Neutron Research, a background-subtracted neutron reflectivity smaller than 10−8 from a liquid cell sample is reported.


Nanoscale ◽  
2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hideaki Teshima ◽  
Hiroki Kusudo ◽  
Carlos Bistafa ◽  
Yasutaka Yamaguchi

Nanobubbles at solid-liquid interfaces play a key role in various physicochemical phenomena and it is crucial to understand their unique properties. However, little is known about their interfacial tensions due...


2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linze Du Hill ◽  
Michel De Keersmaecker ◽  
Adam E Colbert ◽  
Joshua W Hill ◽  
Diogenes Placencia ◽  
...  

Charge transfer and energy conversion processes at semiconductor/electrolyte interfaces are controlled by local electric field distributions, which can be especially challenging to measure. Herein we leverage the low vapor pressure...


Author(s):  
Beibei Wang ◽  
Bangqi Yin ◽  
Zhao Zhang ◽  
Yixuan Yin ◽  
Yang Yang ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beibei Wang ◽  
Bangqi Yin ◽  
Zhao Zhang ◽  
Yixuan Yin ◽  
Yang Yang ◽  
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Author(s):  
Ekaterina Titova ◽  
Dmitri Alexandrov

Abstract The boundary integral method is developed for unsteady solid/liquid interfaces propagating into undercooled binary liquids with convection. A single integrodifferential equation for the interface function is derived using the Green function technique. In the limiting cases, the obtained unsteady convective boundary integral equation (CBIE) transforms into a previously developed theory. This integral is simplified for the steady-state growth in arbitrary curvilinear coordinates when the solid/liquid interface is isothermal (isoconcentration). Finally, we evaluate the boundary integral for a binary melt with a forced flow and analyze how the melt undercooling depends on P\'eclet and Reynolds numbers.


2021 ◽  
Vol 127 (26) ◽  
Author(s):  
Niladri Sarkar ◽  
Abhik Basu ◽  
John Toner

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