IMAT: Imaging and Materials Science Instrument
Coordinating university or institute
Facility
ISISProject description
IMAT (Imaging and Materials Science & Engineering) is a neutron imaging and diffraction instrument for studies of a broad range of materials science related problems. IMAT will offer a combination of imaging and spatially resolved diffraction modes such as standard neutron radiography, neutron tomography, energy-dispersive imaging, neutron strain scanning, crystallographic structure and phase analysis, texture analysis, and non-destructive testing. Examples of fields of study include the non-destructive and in-situ testing of materials for applications in aerospace and transportation, civil engineering, energy storage, geoscience, biology, soil-plant systems, palaeontology and cultural heritage.
Year
Team
Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Sten Eriksson, Professor
- Maths Karlsson, Associate professor
- Dariusz Wardecki, postdoc
ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
- Stephen Hull, Professor, Crystallography Group Leader
- Genoveva Burca, Researcher, Instrument Scientists at IMAT
- Winfried Kockelmann, Researcher, Instrument Scientists at IMAT
- Nigel Rhodes
- Jeff Sykora, ISIS Detector Group
- David McPhail, ISIS Detector Group
- Francesco Zuddas, ISIS Instrument Design Group
Core deliverables
- Design, procurement, manufacturing, testing and installation of large diffraction detector arrays at 90 degrees
- Design, specifications, mounting system, shielding, purchasing and installation of radial collimators at 90 degrees
- Community building and transferring of know-how to the Swedish community
Total budget
Collaborations
- Chalmers University of Technology
- ISIS Neutron and Muon Spallation Source
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