USANS study of wood structure
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2005-11-27
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The Bragg Institute, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
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 Å−1. The interpretation of the data in terms of a reductionist model consisting of infinitely long cylinders (cell lumens) is discussed with reference to the literature on wood ultrastructure. © The Authors
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Physical copy held by ANSTO Library at DDC 539.7217/2
Keywords
Crystals, Neutron diffraction, Pore structure, Structural chemical analysis, Wood, Coherent scattering, Microstructure
Citation
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: ICNS2005, Final Programme and Abstract Book, "Neutrons for structure and dynamics - a new era", Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Sydney, Australia, 27 November-2 December 2005. (pp. 281).