When to use neutrons

Neutron scattering as a spectroscopic technique is demanding of time, effort and commitment. To use the technique the experimentalist has to travel to a neutron facility with their sample and, sometimes, with their equipment. So, knowing when to use neutrons, is important. 

No one could hope to prescribe which systems should, or should not, be studied by INS therefore, in this book we offer a review of all the fields of research that have profitably exploited the INS technique. We have been particularly careful to make the results accessible to the broader chemical and materials science community by simplifying, where desirable, the theoretical approaches, in using generally available 

The reader is invited to study the contents pages to appreciate the broad range of subjects that have been successfully tackled by INS. Then having read through those sections of relevance to their own speciality decide for themselves when, and how, to apply the INS technique to best effect. 

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