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)
People & contacts
Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.
- Gabriela Gonzalez Aviles (Collaborator) — ggonza18@depaul.edu · Profile
Documented Relationships
- CSH-013 - Gonzalez Materials Laboratory (Faculty lead — materials synthesis; SNS/POWGEN user)
- PER-103 - Gabriela Gonzalez Aviles (Collaborator — SNS neutron diffraction program)
Linked publications
- Steam-Assisted Ammonolysis of MoO2 as a Synthetic Pathway to Oxygenated δ-MoN (Coauthor) — DOI (PUB-095)