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    PAPOL, LLB, France; SANSPOL, HMI, Germany; SANS-I at SINQ, Switzerland, NG3 30m at NIST, United States

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Acknowledgements

I would warmly thank Dr. S. King and Dr R. Heenan (ISIS), for the documents supplied on LOQ. I am grateful to P. Van Esch (ILL, Grenoble) for the technical explanations on detectors. I am grateful to Ron Ghosh (Institut Laue Langevin) for discussion on instrument resolution. I would like to thank Bruno Demé for helpful discussions in perspective and application for USANS instruments. Thanks to C. Dewhurst for the manuscript reading and comments on data analysis. I thank R. May for the training on D22 at the ILL and all fruitful discussions.

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Grillo, I. (2008). Small-Angle Neutron Scattering and Applications in Soft Condensed Matter. In: Borsali, R., Pecora, R. (eds) Soft Matter Characterization. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4465-6_13

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