The researchers used an X-ray microbeam during printing to locally measure liquid crystal alignment and direction inside the printer nozzle.

In a new study, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Princeton University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Brookhaven National ...

The high brilliance of synchrotron radiation sources has enabled the application of X-ray microbeam diffraction and scattering techniques to weakly scattering samples like polymers and biopolymers.