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Living in a Materials World: Introduction
This introduction to the Living in a Materials World CD-ROM describes the work of ISIS, a research centre based at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Appleton Rutherford Laboratory.
At ISIS, particle accelerators provide beams of neutrons and muons to enable the structure and dynamics of condensed matter to be probed on a scale that ranges from the subatomic to the macro-molecular. The facility uses neutron diffraction to find out about the arrangement of atoms inside molecules and neutron spectroscopy to investigate atomic dynamics. The accompanying resource shows how neutrons are produced and used at ISIS.
STFC is a part of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) partnership of research councils.
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