Quasielastic and Inelastic Neutron Scattering Studies of Layered Silicates

The application of quasielastic and inelastic neutron scattering to layered silicates is still in its infancy, however the ease of calculating the expected spectrum from a given dynamical model, the extreme sensitivity to hydrogen which can be simply altered by deuteration, and the wide energy and time range (0.2 µ eV - 400 meV, 10-8-10-14 s) over which measurements can be performed promise to provide new insights into the dynamics of these interesting materials.