Abstract

Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering (RSoXS) is a newly developing technique for characterizing the nanoscale structure and chemistry of soft, often highly disordered materials.  After a brief review of the theory of RSoXS I will discuss how RSoXS is intimately related to but uses considerably different experimental and analysis processes compared to hard condensed matter resonant elastic scattering and more traditional X-ray scattering. This will lead into a description of the experimental practices including the new NIST RSoXS station at SST-1. As part of this, I will talk about the data management of hyperspectral scattering sets and how we deal with metadata and sample management for high throughput of multidimensional scattering particularly when the pandemic has meant essentially all experiments are run by one scientist largely remotely. Finally, I will review the recent scientific advances in RSoXS in the fields of organic electronics, block copolymers, liquid crystals, membranes, biological assemblies, and the outlook of moving to environmental in situ and operando studies.

About ALBA II Colloquium

The series ALBA II Colloquium, addressed to the scientific user's community of synchrotron radiation, is aimed at inspiring and promoting fruitful ideas and information exchange about the future development of ALBA II facility.