{"id":211731,"date":"2025-04-18T02:15:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T07:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/curved-neutron-beams-could-deliver-benefits-straight-to-industry"},"modified":"2025-04-18T02:15:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T07:15:52","slug":"curved-neutron-beams-could-deliver-benefits-straight-to-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/curved-neutron-beams-could-deliver-benefits-straight-to-industry","title":{"rendered":"Curved neutron beams could deliver benefits straight to industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/curved-neutron-beams-could-deliver-benefits-straight-to-industry2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a physics first, a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a way to make beams of neutrons travel in curves. These Airy beams (named for English scientist George Airy), which the team created using a custom-built device, could enhance neutrons\u2019 ability to reveal useful information about materials ranging from pharmaceuticals to perfumes to pesticides\u2014in part because the beams can bend around obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve known about these strange, self-steering wave patterns for a while, but until now, no one had ever made them with neutrons,\u201d said NIST\u2019s Michael Huber, one of the paper\u2019s authors. \u201cThis opens up a whole new way to control neutron beams, which could help us see inside materials or explore some big questions in physics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A paper announcing the findings <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.134.153401\" target=\"_blank\">appears<\/a> in Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a physics first, a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a way to make beams of neutrons travel in curves. These Airy beams (named for English scientist George Airy), which the team created using a custom-built device, could enhance neutrons\u2019 ability to reveal useful information about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}