Contrast variation by dynamic nuclear polarization and time-of-flight small-angle neutron scattering, 1; Application to industrial multi-component nanocomposites

能田 洋平*; 小泉 智*; 増井 友美*; 間下 亮*; 岸本 浩通*; 山口 大輔; 熊田 高之; 高田 慎一; 大石 一城*; 鈴木 淳市*

Journal of Applied Crystallography, 49(6), p.2036 - 2045, 2016/12

https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576716016472

We have reported the first attempt with dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) and contrast variation small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) experiments on model mixtures for industrial tyres conducted at the MLF of J-PARC. We performed time-of-flight SANS (TOF-SANS) experiments, employing neutrons with a wide range, which causes imperfect neutron polarization and variations in the coherent and incoherent scattering lengths. By carefully eliminating the effect of imperfect neutron polarization, separation of the partial scattering functions was successfully demonstrated for the ternary system styrene-butadiene-rubber/silica/carbon.