Program Areas

There are five core research areas supported by the CNBC facility. These core themes are chosen to exploit the special properties of thermal neutrons as probes of material properties, and to build excellence in targeted scientific topics, consistent with the network of CNBC researchers.

Research Area	Fact Sheets
Condensed-matter Structures
mineralogical crystal structure refinement structural inorganic chemistry solid state chemical reactions crystal-structure phase transitions structures of glasses and liquids
Materials Science and Engineering
non-destructive internal strain scanning crystallographic texture analysis crystallographic response to thermomechanical treatment kinetics of alloy precipitation and solid-state reactions
Quantum Materials
excitation of lattice vibrations or spin waves excitations in highly correlated electron systems - superconductivity, heavy fermions, etc. quantum phase transitions frustrated magnetism, spin glasses, spin liquids relaxors
Thin Films and Surfaces
magnetic thin films and multilayers on the nanometre scale electrochemical reactions on metal surfaces polymer thin-film coatings nanoporous and mesoporous substrates organic and inorganic layered electronic devices
Soft Materials
membrane biophysics polymeric or phospholipid-based vesicles polymer structures on a substrate structural phase transitions in soft condensed matter membrane-peptide structures