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Jan Skov Pedersen - Form and Structure Factors, Interactions, Modeling
Jan Skov Pedersen
Aarhus University, Denmark


The lecture will deal with the more classical modeling approach for analysis of small-angle scattering data. In the first part, analytical models are considered, and in the second part, models based parameterization of Monte Carlo simulations results are dealt with.

An overview over the form factors of various simple geometrical objects like spheres, ellipsoids, cylinders, discs etc will be given. A few examples are treated in greater detail. In addition, the form factors of polymer models with many internal degrees of freedoms are given, also with a few examples treated in detail. It will be shown how form factors of object consisting of spherical subunits can be derived and similarly how form factors of polymer-like branched structures can be calculated for pre-defined structures. The last topic to be dealt with in the first part of the lectures is models consisting of both spherical and polymer chain subunits.

The second part describes the use of Monte Carlo simulations for generating form factors of polymer models with complex interactions like excluded volume and electrostatic interactions. Form factors for a broad range of parameters are generated and then parameterized so that numerical expressions are available for analysis of experimental data.

In the last part of the lecture, the effects of inter-particle interactions are discussed. The main analytical results will be given for spherical particles and polymer-like particles; approximations valid for particles with some anisotropy are also described.

Throughout the lecture, examples of applications to experimental data are included.

J. Skov Pedersen (1997). Analysis of Small-angle Scattering Data from Polymeric and Colloidal Systems: Modelling and Least-squares Fitting. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science 70, 171-201.
J. Skov Pedersen (2002). Monte Carlo Simulation Techniques Applied in the Analysis of Small-Angle Scattering Data from Colloids and Polymer Systems. Editor(s): Lindner, Peter; Zemb, Thomas. Neutrons, X-Rays and Light, 381-389. Elsevier Science
J. Skov Pedersen (2002). Modelling of Small-Angle Scattering Data from Colloids and Polymer Systems. Editor(s): Lindner, Peter; Zemb, Thomas. Neutrons, X-Rays and Light, 391-420. Elsevier Science

Date/time: Saturday, 28 October, 9:00