Begins are usually difficult and most of the times the first experience is crucial in determining the long-term development of an incursion in a new field. Our team had the great opportunity of meeting Bernhard Frick as local contact in our first neutron scattering experiments in the late 80’s. Since then, the collaboration with Bernhard has resulted in a plethora of exciting investigations...
The physics of nanoconfined fluids is complex and must be approached from several complementary angles. Therefore, effective collaboration is undoubtedly the keystone of a successful study in this field. Over the past 20 years, I have benefitted from Bernhard's invaluable expertise in both neutron scattering methods and confinement effects. Besides being a unique personal experience, sharing...
In the mid 90's, Neutron Scattering contributed greatly to a better understanding of the phenomena related to viscous slowing down and Glass Transition in many different systems, polymers, molecular liquids, spin glasses, proteins. Quasi-elastic scattering has been instrumental in providing a description of the various relaxation processes involved and in testing theoretical approaches. The...
The explanation of the dynamics of glass-forming materials is a still unsolved problem in solid state theory. My collaboration with Bernhard Frick started in 1990 when quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS) was beginning to be employed on such systems. At that time, experiments mostly aimed at scrutinizing Mode Coupling Theory (MCT) and were done on bulk systems because this theory does not...
