Experiment shows potential of X-ray laser to study complex, poorly understood materials
Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 07:10
in Physics & Chemistry
Plastics are made of polymers, which are a challenge for scientists to study. Their chainlike strands of thousands of atoms are tangled up in a spaghetti-like jumble, their motion can be measured at many time scales and they are essentially invisible to some common X-ray study techniques.