[Neutron] Special Issue: Recent Advances in Small-Angle Neutron Scattering

[Sebastian Jaksch]

Dear Colleagues,
I would like to invite you to submit a contribution to a Special Issue 
on Recent Advances in Small-Angle Neutron Scattering in the Journal 
Applied Sciences.

Small-Angle Neutron scattering as a method is extremely versatile, which 
is mirrored both in the experimental concepts and sample environments 
that are available for it, as well as the range of scientific fields 
employing SANS. Those range from biological and medical investigations, 
food science, polymers and various areas of soft condensed matter to 
magnetic interactions, data storage and material properties of turbine 
blades in material science and hard matter investigations.

All of those fields have their specific challenges, and often a solution 
for SANS experiment in one field can be transferred to be used elsewhere.

In order create a comprehensive overview over the most recent advances, 
both on the instrument technology side as well as the experimental side, 
there will be a dedicated special issue.

Here we want to collect reports such as:

1.	New instrument designs
2.	Instrument upgrades and fundamental improvements
3.	Sample environment technologies and experimental support
4.	Data treatment
5.	Proof-of-principle experiments on systems that allow a general use, 
also for other systems
6.	Dedicated different geometries/techniques linked with SANS, such as 
GISANS

All original articles, case reports, and review articles are welcome.

If you are working in a SANS related field and have interesting progress 
on SANS as a technology, tool or concept to make, we cordially invite 
you to contribute to this special issue.

With kind regards
Sebastian Jaksch
Guest Editor

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2021 (Considering the 
current situation, please do not hesitate to contact me if you need more 
time)

Please find further information at:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/small_angle_neutron_scattering#info

Keywords
Small-Angle Neutron Scattering, SANS, GISANS, sample environment, data 
treatment, novel methods, instrumentation, instrumentation upgrades, 
instrumentation design

Further Information:

*Manuscript Guidelines*
Submitted papers should not have been published previously, nor be under 
consideration for publication elsewhere. Peer-review is commissioned 
immediately upon receipt of the paper and the paper will be published 
immediately online upon final acceptance. We also encourage authors to 
send a short abstract or tentative title to amy.yu at mdpi.com in advance.

*Publication Charge*
An Article Processing Charge (APC) of CHF 1800 currently applies to 
accepted papers. Please note that for papers submitted after 31 December 
2020 an APC of 2000 CHF applies.
*How to Submit*
Please visit the Instructions for Authors before submitting a manuscript 
at: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/instructions.

Manuscripts should be submitted through the online manuscript submission 
and editorial system at http://www.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/. 
Choosing journal "Applied Sciences" and Special Issue " Recent Advances 
in Small Angle Neutron Scattering".

*About Applied Sciences*
Applied Sciences (Applied Sciences-Basel in Web of Science) is an 
international open access journal on all aspects of applied natural 
sciences published monthly online by MDPI. You can find more information 
about our journal here:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/sections
*High visibility*
Applied Sciences is covered by leading indexing services, including the 
Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, and Inspec (IET). As an open 
access journal, everyone will be able to easily access and read your 
paper, as it will be freely available online.

*Fast Publication*
Manuscripts are peer-reviewed, and a first decision is provided to 
authors approximately 14 days after submission; acceptance to 
publication is then undertaken in 3.6 days (median values in 2020).

We hope you will find this topic of interest and look forward to hearing 
from you. If you have any questions on the matter, please do not 
hesitate to contact us.

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Sebastian Jaksch, PhD

Jülich Centre for Neutron Science JCNS
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Outstation at MLZ
Lichtenbergstraße 1

85747 Garching GERMANY

Tel.: +49 (0) 89 – 289 11 673

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