USANS study of wood structure

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2006-11-15
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Elsevier
Abstract
Wood performs a vascular and structural function in trees. In this study we used the double-crystal diffractometer BT5 at the NIST Center for Neutron Scattering (Gaithersburg, USA) to study the pore structure inside wood sections. The slit-smeared intensity of scattered neutrons was measured from wood sections in directions parallel, orthogonal and transverse to the tree's trunk axis over a scattering vector range 0.00004-0.002 angstrom(-1). The interpretation of the data in terms of a reductionist model consisting of infinitely long cylinders (cell lumens) is discussed. © 2006, Elsevier Ltd.
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Wood, Trees, Pore structure, Neutrons, Scattering, Vectors
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Garvey, C. J., Knott, R. B., Searson, M., & Conroy, J. P. (2006). USANS study of wood structure. Paper presented at the Eighth International Conference on Neutron Scattering (ICNS 2005), "Neutrons for structure and dynamics - a new era", Sydney, Australia, 27 November to 2 December 2005. In Campbell, S. J., Cadogan, J. M., Furusaka, M., Hauser, N., & James, M. (Eds), Physica B: Condensed Matter, 385-386(Part 2), 877-879. doi:10.1016/j.physb.2006.05.132