Current Status of Neutron-Scattering Research and Facilities in the United States -- Copyright -- PREFACE -- Contents -- 1. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- CONCLUSIONS -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- 2. INTRODUCTION -- 3. CURRENT STATUS OF NEUTRON-SCATTERING FACILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES -- FACILITY DESCRIPTIONS -- High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR)--Brookhaven National Laboratory -- Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS)--Argonne National Laboratory -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Reactor (MITR) -- National Bureau of Standards Reactor (NBSR) -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory Reactors (ORNL) -- University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) -- Weapons Neutron Research/Proton Storage Ring Facility (WNR/PSR) Los Alamos National Laboratory -- Summary of Facilities -- THE USER COMMUNITY -- COMPARISON WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY -- 4. OVERSEAS NEUTRON-SCATTERING FACILITIES -- RESEARCH REACTORS -- PULSED NEUTRON SOURCES -- 5. RECENT NEUTRON-SCATTERING RESEARCH IN THE UNITED STATES -- COMPARISONS WITH EUROPE -- CONDENSED-MATTER PHYSICS -- Magnetic Systems -- Phase Transition -- New Materials and Phenomena -- Crystal Dynamics -- Defect Systems -- Surfaces and Overlayers -- Liquids and Glasses -- Quantum Fluids -- Classical Liquids -- Glasses and Amorphous Solids -- NEUTRON OPTICS -- CHEMISTRY -- Crystallographic Research -- Hydrides, Organometallic Compounds, and Heteropoly Complexes -- Ionic Conductors and Ceramics -- Superconductors -- Framework Structures -- Charge-Density Studies -- Hydrogen-Bonded Compounds -- High-Precision Structure Studies -- Molecular Fluids and Molten Salts -- Chemical Spectroscopy -- Vibrational Spectroscopy -- Low-Energy Spectroscopy -- BIOLOGY -- Protein Crystallography -- Solution Scattering -- The Ribosome -- Partially Ordered Systems -- Inelastic Scattering -- Conclusion -- POLYMER AND COLLOID SCIENCE.

Areas of Special Interest -- Some Results from Neutron Scattering -- Instrumentation Needs -- MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING -- Studies of Microstructural Changes Produced by Temperature and Deformation -- Use of SANS in the Detection and Analysis of Damage -- Measurement of Texture and Residual Stresses by Neutron Diffraction -- Investigations of Phase Decomposition -- 6. FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES: FACILITIES AND RESEARCH -- CONDENSED-MATTER PHYSICS -- CHEMISTRY -- BIOLOGY -- POLYMERS -- MATERIALS SCIENCE -- NEUTRON OPTICS -- Role of Pulsed Sources -- Concluding Remarks -- APPENDIX A INSTITUTIONAL SPONSORS OF USERS OF MAJOR NEUTRON-SCATTERING FACILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES (JULY 1982-JUNE 1983) -- UNIVERSITIES -- INDUSTRIES.