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Neutron Investigations of the Structure and Dynamics
of Condensed Matter

• Neutron diffraction investigations of the structure and properties of new crystalline materials.
  
  
• Neutron diffraction investigations of the structure and properties of strongly correlated electron systems - complex oxides (manganites, vanadates, ruthenates), new superconductors (mercury compounds, bismuthates, etc.).
  
  
• Neutron diffraction investigations of changes in the atomic and magnetic structure of crystalline materials under the action of high external pressures.
  
  
• Investigations of internal stresses in voluminous industrial products, gradient, and composite materials.
  
  
• Investigations of internal stresses in structural materials of nuclear reactors, industrial materials and products - composites, reinfoced systems, metal ceramics, shape memory alloys.
  
  
• Investigations of the structure and vibrational spectra of molecular complexes, verification of quantum-chemical model calculations of physicochemical properties of studied materials and getting an insight into microscopic mechanisms of phase transitions.
  
  
• Investigations of the structure and dynamics of Pb-based alloys, melts of reactor materials and their oxides in the range of high temperatures up to 3000 K.
  
  
• Investigations of the structure and dynamics of materials with superionic conductivity.
  
  
• Establishing of a connection between magnetism and superconductivity in layered nanostructures.
  
  
• Determination of the structure and properties of polymeric films with magnetic impurities.
  
  
• Measurement of parameters of magnons and phonons in low-dimensional systems.
  
  
• Obtaining of new information on the connection of the structure, physical properties and functioning of nanostructures in cells, including at high pressures.
  
  
• Obtaining of new data on the structure of DNA-lipid complexes.
  
  
• Determination of the structure of lipid complexes for drug transport (liposomes).
  
  
• Determination of the structure in different conditions and stages of functioning for a number of proteins with unfixed tertiary structure.
  
  
• Investigations of cluster state of fullerenes in solutions.
  
  
• Investigations of cluster formation in colloidal solutions.
  
  
• Description of the structure of aqueous biocompatible magnetic liquids, quantitative description of aggregation processes in these liquids under the action of external magnetic field.
  
  
• Studying of biological macromolecular systems and molecular complexes for drug transport.
  
  
• Determination of the influence of ionic strength on the structure, form of existence and rigidity of micelles in surfactants and colloids, determination of a connection between physicochemical properties and structure of micellar solutions.
  
  
• Obtaining os systematic data on the structure of highly branched polymers (dendrimers), polymers in membranes.
  
  
• Studying of self-assembly of rigid macromolecules in water solutions.
  
  
• Studying of structure of hydrophobic gels.
  
  
• Neutron diffraction investigations of the structure, texture and physical properties of geological materials in order to get a deeper insight into the structure of lithosphere and the nature of seismic anisotropy.
  
  
• Investigations of the composition and structure of near-surface layers using charged particle beams.
  
  
• New experimental data on optical and structural properties of heterogeneous systems with nanostructural clusters.
  
  
• Creation of test pieces of optical media with specified properties for generation of laser radiation.
  
  
• Investigations of behaviour of heterogeneous systems in corpuscular and electromagnetic radiation fields.
  
  
• Creation of the SEASANS spin-echo small-angle neutron scattering spectrometer.
  
  
• Creation of a new neutron reflectometer with a vertical plane of scattering.
  
  
• Creation of a new neutron diffractometer for investigations at high pressures.
  
  
• Creation of EXAFS - a spectrometer on the "Sibir-2" synchrotron radiation source in RSC "Kurchatov Institute" (Moscow).

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