Chemical Dynamics and Spectroscopy with Pulsed Neutrons
This talk provides an overview of current scientific capabilities and ongoing developments in chemical dynamics and spectroscopy at the ISIS Pulsed Neutron and Muon Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom. In particular, we emphasize the uniqueness of short-pulse spallation neutron sources to explore a broad range of structural and dynamical phenomena of chemical interest with unrivalled resolution and over several orders of magnitude in length and time. These capabilities remain largely unique to ISIS, with a growing number of applications in physical and materials chemistry, energy research, or catalysis, along with exciting new initiatives in close partnership with several European partners including Italy, Poland, Spain, and Sweden. We also illustrate the increasing importance of first-principles materials-modelling methodologies to interpret neutron-scattering experiments on complex materials, as well as parallel infrastructure developments for in-situ and operando gas-storage and catalysis research under realistic conditions of industrial relevance.