Neutron and X-ray techniques have a huge potential for solving technological problems for the benefit of society. However, while scattering techniques have long been invaluable tools for academic research, the techniques employed at modern large-scale facilities are highly specialized and most companies do not have the expertise to take advantage of the opportunities. Following the large public investment in the European Spallation Source (ESS) the Danish government, through Innovation Fund Denmark, have invested in the LINX Project. The goal is to help Danish industry benefit from the ESS neutron source and the MAX IV X-ray synchrotron. LINX is a network of three Danish universities, with expertise in neutron and X-ray methods, and many industrial companies, encompassing a diverse set of applied science. This includes a focus area on Colloid Materials with projects on a range of industrial problems from a range of colloid and interface science. The university scientists help the industrial partners identify problems, which can be addressed with neutron and X-ray techniques, and they then work with them to design suitable experiments, acquire beam time, performing measurements, and analyze data. The overall goal of LINX is to establish a strong organization that can help industry gain short and long-term technological advances and develop new capabilities in neutron and X-ray techniques. It is our hope that an expanding user community of industrial colloid scientists will help push for developments in research infrastructure, instrumentation, and sample environments to the benefit of the neutron and X-ray communities. I will discuss the operation of the LINX organization and show examples of how we use neutron and X-ray scattering to solve industrial problems.

LINX: Linking industry to neutrons & X-rays

256th National Meeting (2018)

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