Nanomaterials (Dec 2022)

New Material Exploration to Enhance Neutron Intensity below Cold Neutrons: Nanosized Graphene Flower Aggregation

  • Makoto Teshigawara,
  • Yujiro Ikeda,
  • Mingfei Yan,
  • Kazuo Muramatsu,
  • Koichi Sutani,
  • Masafumi Fukuzumi,
  • Yohei Noda,
  • Satoshi Koizumi,
  • Koichi Saruta,
  • Yoshie Otake

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13010076
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
p. 76

Abstract

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It is proposed that nanosized graphene aggregation could facilitate coherent neutron scattering under particle size conditions similar to nanodiamonds to enhance neutron intensity below cold neutrons. Using the RIKEN accelerator-driven compact neutron source and iMATERIA at J-PARC, we performed neutron measurement experiments, total neutron cross-section and small-angle neutron scattering on nanosized graphene aggregation. For the first time, the measured data revealed that nanosized graphene aggregation increased the total neutron cross-sections and small-angle scattering in the cold neutron energy region. This is most likely due to coherent scattering, resulting in higher neutron intensities, similar to nanodiamonds.

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