Development of nanosized graphene material for neutron intensity enhancement below cold neutron energy

Abstract

We have been developing nanosized graphene, called graphene flower, as a material that induces coherent scattering very cold neutrons. Previous experiments have found that the seed part of the graphene flower is more effective than the petal part in increasing the coherent scattering. Based on these results, we found that further modification of the graphene flower to increase the seed portion increased the total cross-section, although it did not reach the level of nanodiamonds.

Keywords

Nanosized material graphene aggregation neutron reflector cold neutrons very cold neutrons neutron sources

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