Uniting Electron Crystallography and Powder Diffraction
By: edited by Ute Kolb, Kenneth Shankland, Louisa Meshi, Anatoly Avilov, William I.F David
Contributors: Shankland, Kenneth; Meshi, Louisa; Avilov, Anatoly; David, William I.F.; SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics
Publisher: Springer Netherlands; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9789400755802
Subjects: Materials; Materials Science, general; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Surfaces (Physics); Crystallography; Physics
Description: <p>The polycrystalline and nanocrystalline states play an increasingly important role in exploiting the properties of materials, encompassing applications as diverse as pharmaceuticals, catalysts, solar cells and energy storage. A knowledge of the three-dimensional atomic and molecular structure of materials is essential for understanding and controlling their properties, yet traditional single-crystal X-ray diffraction methods lose their power when only polycrystalline and nanocrystalline samples are available. It is here that powder diffraction and single-crystal electron diffraction techniques take over, substantially extending the range of applicability of the crystallographic principles of structure determination.  </p><p>This volume, a collection of teaching contributions presented at the Crystallographic Course in Erice in 2011, clearly describes the fundamentals and the state-of-the-art of powder diffraction and electron diffraction methods in materials characterisation, encompassing a diverse range of disciplines and materials stretching from archeometry to zeolites.   As such, it is a comprehensive and valuable resource for those wishing to gain an understanding of the broad applicability of these two rapidly developing fields.</p>
Table of contents: title: <p>Preface; title: Part 1 – Powder Diffraction; title: Powder Diffraction: By Decades; title: Rietveld Refinement; title: Structure Solution - an Overview; title: Inorganic Materials; title: Organic Compounds; title: Laboratory X-ray Diffraction; title: Synchrotron X-Ray Powder Diffraction; title: Ultra Fast Powder Diffraction; title: Taking it to Extremes – Powder Diffraction at Elevated Pressures.-Structure Solution by Charge Flipping; title: Structure Solution: Global Optimisation Methods; title: Proteins and Powders: Technical Developments; title: Proteins and Powders: An Overview; title: Parametric Powder Diffraction; title: Powder Diffraction + Computational Methods; title: Information on Imperfections; title: Pair Distribution Function Technique: Principles and Methods; title: Debye Analysis; title: Quantitative Phase Analysis; title: Quantifying amorphous phases; title: Quantitative phase analysis: method developments; title: Texture - an Overview; title: The future of powder diffraction is 2-D; title: Part 2 - Electron crystallography; title: Electron Crystallography – New methods to explore Structure and Properties of the Nano World; title: Image formation in the Electron Microscope; title: Models for Precession Electron Diffraction; title: Structure Solution using HRTEM; title: Combination of X-ray Powder Diffraction, Electron Diffraction and HRTEM data; title: Automated Electron Diffraction Tomography; title: Automated Quantitative 3D Electron Diffraction Rotation Tomography; title: Introduction to ADT/ADT3D; title: Electrostatic Potential determined from Electron Diffraction Data; title: Domino Phase Retrieval Algorithm for Structure Solution; title: LARBED: Exploring the 4<sup>th</sup> dimension in Electron Diffraction; title: Shadow Imaging for Charge Distribution Analysis; title: Electron Diffraction of Protein 3D Nanocrystals; title: Parallel-beam Diffraction and Direct Imaging in an aberration-corrected STEM.-Electron diffraction of commensurately and incommensurately modulated Materials; title: Detection of Magnetic Circular Dichroism using TEM and EELS; title: Index.-</p>.