Other Scattering Methods

SANS is an expensive tool and, whenever possible, SAXS or light scattering should be used. It is the judicious use of deuterium labeling that usually justifies SANS measurements, giving access to structural features unavailable through other scattering methods or complementary to those. 

Analogously to other scattering methods, SANS yields a picture of the sample in the reciprocal space. SANS data must therefore be interpreted basically with one of the following approaches, which are similar to those enumerated for SAXS ... 

Band gaps in semiconductors can be investigated by other optical methods, such as photoluminescence, cathodoluminescence, photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy, absorption, spectral ellipsometry, photocurrent spectroscopy, and resonant Raman spectroscopy. Photoluminescence and cathodoluminescence involve an emission process and hence can be used to evaluate only features near the fundamental band gap. The other methods are related to the absorption process or its derivative (resonant Raman scattering). Most of these methods require cryogenic temperatures. 

Other suitable methods include inelastic or diffuse X-ray and neutron scattering. 

Often in hyperbranched polymers obtained via SCVP, it is not possible to determine the DB directly via NMR analysis. Therefore, other methods, for example, viscosity measurements and light-scattering methods have to be used to confirm the compact structure of a hyperbranched polymer. Such characterizations of hyperbranched (meth)acrylates will be discussed in the next section. 

Branching in the polymer chain affects the relationship between retention and molecular weight.83 Universal calibration has been used with some success in branched polymers, but there are also pitfalls. Viscosimetry84-91 and other instrumental methods have proved to be useful. A computer simulation of the effects of branching on hydrodynamic volume and the detailed effects observable in GPC is available in the literature.92 93 In copolymer analysis, retention may be different for block and random copolymers, so universal calibration may be difficult. However, a UV-VIS detector, followed by a low-angle light-scattering (LALLS) detector and a differential... 

Application. Anomalous X-ray diffraction (AXRD), anomalous wide-angle X-ray scattering (AWAXS), and anomalous small-angle X-ray scattering (ASAXS) are scattering methods which are selective to chemical elements. The contrast of the selected element with respect to the other atoms in the material is enhanced. The phase problem of normal X-ray scattering can be resolved, and electron density maps can be computed. 

Electron dynamic scattering must be considered for the interpretation of experimental diffraction intensities because of the strong electron interaction with matter for a crystal of more than 10 nm thick. For a perfect crystal with a relatively small unit cell, the Bloch wave method is the preferred way to calculate dynamic electron diffraction intensities and exit-wave functions because of its flexibility and accuracy. The multi-slice method or other similar methods are best in case of diffraction from crystals containing defects. A recent description of the multislice method can be found in [8]. 

The application of neutron spin-echo spectroscopy to the analysis of the slow dynamics of biomolecules is still in its infancy, but developing fast. The few published investigations either pertain to the diffusion of globular proteins in solution [332-334] or focus on the internal subnanosecond dynamics on the length scale, <10 A as measured on wet powders [335,336]. The latter regime overlaps with other quasi-elastic neutron scattering methods as backscattering and TOE spectrometry [337-339]. 

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