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Detecting the Flavors of Important Elements With Neutron Depth Profiling
The first five minutes of any presentation I give on neutron depth profiling are usually met with blank stares from my audience. This, I hope, is not something about me, but rather due to the audience’s lack of familiarity with the topic. Neutron depth profiling, which is always shortened to NDP, is a little-known technique that belongs to the rarefied field of radiochemistry. In recent decades
New Report Highlights Economic Value of Neutron Science to U.S. Industry
Cells’ Electric Fields Keep Nanoparticles at Bay, Scientists Confirm
Imaging the Elusive Skyrmion
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