R. Nakabe

Water Activity Governs Ice Nanocrystal Evolution in Rapidly Frozen Sugar Solutions

Abstract Formation and evolution of ice nanocrystals in rapidly frozen sugar solutions were investigated using spin-contrast-variation small-angle neutron scattering (SCV-SANS). As the sugar concentration decreased, the SCV-SANS signal from nanocrystalline ice plates decreased re...

Development and characterization of low-scattering vanadium nanoparticle targets for short-range interaction searches

We developed high-purity vanadium-based nanoparticle targets for neutron scattering experiments aimed at exploring gravity-like short-range new interactions in the submicron regime. Vanadium and V-Ni nanoparticles were fabricated using top-down and bottom-up methods and quantitat...