Conveners
Soft Matter
- Stephanie Gras (Monash University)
Dr
Chris Garvey
(ANSTO)
20/11/2014, 13:30
Soft Matter
Oral
Fourier methods may be used to reconstruct the scattering length density profile of the unit cell from neutron and x-ray diffraction measurements thus yielding information about the distribution of chemical component. Deuteration of the sample components can be used for phasing of the Fourier reconstruction or to provide contrast between components in bilayer stacks1. We discuss the...
Dr
Charlotte Conn
(RMIT)
20/11/2014, 14:00
Soft Matter
Oral
Self-assembled lipidic cubic phases are attracting increasing interest as biocompatible carriers of large biomolecules including proteins, peptides, DNA and drugs [1]. A suite of new high-throughput techniques, to formulate libraries of lipidic mesophases, and structurally characterize them using the SAXS/WAXS beamline at the Australian Synchrotron, are described. Samples are contained within...
Mr
Daniel Schauries
(Department of Electronic Material Engineering, The Australian National University, Australia)
20/11/2014, 14:20
Soft Matter
Oral
When exposed to swift heavy ion irradiation a wide range of materials show formation of ion tracks as a result of their interaction with the material’s electrons. These tracks are narrow, cylindrical-shaped regions of high defect concentration, only a few nanometres in diameter and up to tens of micrometers in length. Ion-irradiated polymers allow the fabrication of microelectronic devices...
Dr
Stephen Holt
(Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation)
20/11/2014, 14:40
Soft Matter
Oral
X-ray (XRR) and Neutron Reflectometry (NR) techniques are vital and widely used for characterising the interfacial structure of thin films normal to a surface. XRR is regularly used to characterise systems such as ion distribution at the ionic-liquid/electrode surface, the structure of thin film organic photovoltaics, the structure of organic light emitting devices, phospholipid membranes at...
