What is it about?
X-ray powder diffraction is widely used in material science. X-ray single-crystal diffraction is much more powerful than powder diffraction in characterising and structure solving. However many important materials are polycrystalline and are not suitable for single-crystal diffraction. We proposed a new method, which enables collection of 3-dimensional single-crystal diffraction data using powder (polycrystalline) samples.
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Why is it important?
The possibility of collecting a set of 3-dimensional single-crystal diffraction data using powder samples means that we can make use of all kinds of powerful methods of single-crystal diffraction analysis for polycrystalline sample without the necessity of growing sufficiently big and good single crystals.
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This page is a summary of: SFX analysis of non-biological polycrystalline samples, IUCrJ, March 2015, International Union of Crystallography,
DOI: 10.1107/s2052252515002146.
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