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Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) — Oak Ridge National Laboratory (EXT-020)

Summary 🟡 ~

  • Owner Unit: External partner organization
  • Sub-unit: Spallation Neutron Source (DOE Office of Science user facility)
  • Content Type: partnership
  • Campus/Location: Off-campus (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN)
  • Last Verified: July 1, 2026

Organization

The Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a DOE Office of Science neutron user facility. Instruments such as POWGEN support powder diffraction for materials chemistry and crystallography via peer-reviewed beamtime.

Access status

  • Level: yellow (Negotiated Access)
  • Rationale: SNS neutron user facility; beamtime via DOE proposals.
  • Access URL: neutrons.ornl.gov
  • Contact name: Office of Research Services
  • Contact email: ors@depaul.edu
  • Verification date: 2026-07-01
  • Source URLs:
  • neutrons.ornl.gov
  • www.ornl.gov

Relationship to DePaul

DePaul-affiliated materials research (Gonzalez Aviles group, CSH-013) documents SNS/POWGEN neutron diffraction in peer-reviewed publications alongside APS synchrotron work (PUB-095).

Verification

  • Status: likely (~)
  • Confidence: 85/100
  • Rationale: Named SNS/POWGEN use in PUB-095 full text.
  • Last verified: 2026-07-01
  • Evidence:
  • PUB-095 acknowledges Spallation Neutron Source, ORNL (POWGEN instrument).

Equipment

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Category Specific equipment
Neutron scattering Spallation Neutron Source user facility (POWGEN powder diffraction)

Source: SNS facility page + PUB-095 full text (July 2026).. Last verified: May 28, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

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Documented Relationships

Linked publications

  • Steam-Assisted Ammonolysis of MoO2 as a Synthetic Pathway to Oxygenated δ-MoN (Coauthor) — DOI (PUB-095)