See how a unique setup using Linkam’s TS1500 allows researchers to perform beamline XRD analysis at high temperature at Diamond Light Source. Here, they use the new long-duration experimental beamline I11 to study phase formation kinetics of metal alloys, demonstrating a new technique for metallurgical studies.

Researchers combine the mechanical testing and temperature control capabilities of Linkam’s mechanical testing system with x-ray scattering techniques (WAXS/SAXS) to elucidate the crystallisation and deformation induced orientation as a function of stress-strain behaviour and temperature.

By stretching lamellar polymer films at various temperatures, researchers were able to prepare microporous membranes. They performed SAXS/WAXS characterisation on the stretched samples, and for the first time clarifying the fibre connecting bridges that form when the composite is stretch at raised temperatures. Read how Linkam’s mechanical testing system was key to this research.