Zoom

The instrument offers a similar flux and low background as SANS2D with a maximum sample to detector distance of 10 m. With its movable detector tank (up to 1.5 m downstream), the instrument offers a flexible sample area to accommodate large sample equipment, e.g. a selection of superconducting magnets for high field experiments. The main SANS detector covers consists of an array of 192 x 1 m long ³He tubes.

Since it entered the ISIS user program, Zoom has shown its merits as flexible material science beamline investigating:

• Peptides, proteins and functional biomaterials for the design of antiviral nanoagents and drug delivery, and tissue engineering.
• Synthetic chemistry, e.g. formulation stability of surfactant systems relevant for cosmetics (sunscreen lotions, micelles as encapsulating agent for fragrances), cleaning products and lubricants and industrial applications, as well as thermoresponsive polymers and insights into supramolecular topological assemblies.
• Multifunctional energy materials like structural electrolytes capable of storing electrical energy and holding mechanical load and the effects of thermal aging and precipitate formation in steels envisaged for fusion power plants.
• Magnetic phase transitions and nanosized spin textures, like magnetic skyrmions.

Zoom has a polarised beam option with a supermirror V cavity and a Drabkin type spin flipper. Upon request, polarisation analysis with a ³He spin analyser is available from ISIS Polarisation group.