Useful Literature

Books

• Elements of Modern X-ray Physics, 2nd Edition, Jens Als-Nielsen, Des McMorrow, ISBN-13: 978-0470973943 Amazon link

• X-Ray Scattering from Soft-Matter Thin Films, Metin Tolan, ISBN: 9783540651826 Amazon link

• X-Ray Diffuse Scattering from Self-Organized Mesoscopic Semiconductor Structures, Martin Schmidbauer, ISBN-13: 978-3540201793 Amazon link

• Structure Analysis by Small-Angle X-Ray and Neutron Scattering, L.A. Feigin, D.I. Svergun, ISBN-13: 978-1475766264 Amazon link

• Scattering Methods and their Application in Colloid and Interface Science 1st Edition Otto Glatter, Elsevier, ISBN: 9780128135815

• Methods of X-ray and neutron scattering in polymer science R. J. Roe, ISBN: 9780195113211 Amazon link

• The SAXS Guide: Getting acquainted with the principles, Heimo Schnablegger and Yashveer Singh, Anton Paar 2013. Available for free

Data Books

• X-ray data booklet, Center for X-ray Optics and Advanced Light Source, October 2009, LBNL/PUB-490 Rev. 3.

• Neutron data booklet, 2nd edition, Institut Laue-Langevin, July 2003, ISBN: 0-9704143-7-4 Amazon link

Review Articles

• Small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering Jeffries, C.M., Ilavsky, J., Martel, A. et al. Nature Reviews Methods Primers 2021, 1, 70. doi: 10.1038/s43586-021-00064-9
• X-ray scattering characterisation of nanoparticles Bridget Ingham Crystallography Reviews 2015 doi: 10.1080/0889311X.2015.1024114

SAXS

• Recent developments in polymer applications of small-angle neutron, X-ray and light scattering J. S. Higgins and R. S. Stein J. Appl. Cryst. 1978, 11, 346-375. doi: 10.1107/S0021889878013485
• Small-Angle X-ray Scattering of Polymers Benjamin Chu and Benjamin S. Hsiao Chemical Reviews 2001, 101 (6), 1727-1762. doi: 10.1021/cr9900376
• Small-angle scattering in materials science - a short review of applications in alloys, ceramics and composite materials P. Fratzl J. Appl. Cryst. 2003, 36, 397-404. doi: 10.1107/S0021889803000335
• Nanostructure as seen by the SAXS P. Dubček Vacuum 2005, 80 (1-3), 92-97. doi: 10.1016/j.vacuum.2005.07.045
• Small-Angle Scattering of X-Rays and Neutrons Claudine E. Williams, Roland P. May and André Guinier X-ray Characterization of Materials 2007, edited by E. Lifshin, Chapter 4, 211–254. doi: 10.1002/9783527613748.ch4
• Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering on Biological Macromolecules and Nanocomposites in Solution Clement E. Blanchet and Dmitri I. Svergun Annual Review of Physical Chemistry 2013, 64, 37-54. doi: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-040412-110132
• Small Angle X-ray Scattering for Nanoparticle Research Tao Li, Andrew J. Senesi, and Byeongdu Lee Chemical Reviews 2016 doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00690

BioSAXS

• Refer to BioSAXS References.
• Imaging of Biological Materials and Cells by X-ray Scattering and Diffraction Clément Y. J. Hémonnot and Sarah Köster ACS Nano 2017 doi: 10.1021/acsnano.7b03447

GISAXS

• Characterization of polymer thin films with small‐angle X‐ray scattering under grazing incidence (GISAXS) Detlef‐M. Smilgies, Peter Busch, Christine M. Papadakis & Dorthe Posselt, Synchrotron Radiation News 2002, 15 (5), 35-42. doi: 10.1080/08940880208602975

• P. Müller-Buschbaum Grazing incidence small-angle X-ray scattering: an advanced scattering technique for the investigation of nanostructured polymer films Anal Bioanal Chem. 2003, 376(1), 3-10. doi: 10.1007/s00216-003-1869-2

• P. Müller-Buschbaum A Basic Introduction to Grazing Incidence Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering Applications of Synchrotron Light to Scattering and Diffraction in Materials and Life Sciences Lecture Notes in Physics 2009, 776, 61-89.

• Probing surface and interface morphology with Grazing Incidence Small Angle X-Ray Scattering Gilles Renaud, Rémi Lazzari, Frédéric Leroy Surface Science Reports 2009 64 (8), 255-380. doi: 10.1016/j.surfrep.2009.07.002

• Synchrotron X-ray techniques for the investigation of structures and dynamics in interfacial systems Luigi Cristofolini Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science 2014, 19 (3), 228-241. doi: 10.1016/j.cocis.2014.03.006

• Advanced grazing-incidence techniques for modern soft-matter materials analysis Alexander Hexemer and Peter Müller-Buschbaum IUCrJ 2015 2 (1), 106-125. doi: 10.1107/S2052252514024178

• GISAXS and GISANS as metrology technique for understanding the 3D morphology of block copolymer thin films Peter Müller-Buschbaum European Polymer Journal 2016 doi: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2016.04.007

• GISAXS: A versatile tool to assess structure and self-assembly kinetics in block copolymer thin films Detlef-M. Smilgies, Journal of Polymer Science 2021. doi: 10.1002/pol.20210244

See Also

• Useful Links
• Experimental examples (selection of papers that use scattering to study various materials)