ABOUT ME
I am an Assistant Physicist at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the Argonne National Lab. I work in Soft Matter Physics using X-ray scattering. I am one of the scientists responsible for supporting and conducting research activities at the beamline, specializing in X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (XPCS) and time-resolved coherent small-angle X-ray scattering. As part of a team, I support users from various research institutions, who conduct their work at APS as a collaborative process.
ABOUT APS AT ARGONNE
APS is one of the best third-generation synchrotron radiation sources delivering brilliant X-ray beams. APS gives a unique opportunity for researchers to carry out novel science that are otherwise impossible to study. Among the frontier areas that specifically have tremendous impact are coherent scattering, science of ultra fast phenomena, high energy physics, imaging, nanoscience and the like.
MY RESEARCH
My research interests include both the scientific and the instrumentation aspects of X-ray Physics. My interest in the scientific area involves probing kinetics and dynamics in soft-matter (in bulk as well as in thin films). The techniques used to probe are X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy and Small-Angle X-ray Scattering in transmission and grazing incidence. The systems that I study are polymer /metal nanocomposites, homopolymer and block co-polymers. The instrumentation aspects include developing X-ray optics for the beamline and customizing sample environments.
SOME RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
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PUBLICATIONS
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SURESH NARAYANAN 