Dynamical X-ray diffraction describes the full interaction of incident and scattered wavefields within a crystal, accounting for multiple scattering events that the simpler kinematical theory neglects ...

A joint research team led by Yuuki Kubo and Shiji Tsuneyuki of the University of Tokyo has developed a new computational method that can efficiently determine the crystal structures of multiphase ...

Intermetallic compounds are ordered alloys of two or more metallic elements that adopt discrete crystal structures and exhibit distinctive physical properties. Crystal structure analysis of these ...

Organic molecular crystals can respond to external stimuli such as heat, light, and mechanical force, making them attractive ...

Materials scientists at Rice University have developed a new workflow methodology for measuring microscopic defects in ...

For thousands of these materials, X-ray diffraction patterns exist but remain unsolved. To try to crack the structures of these materials, Freedman and her colleagues trained a machine-learning model ...

What is X-Ray Crystallography? X-ray crystallography is a powerful analytical technique used to determine the atomic and molecular structure of crystalline materials. It involves directing a beam of X ...

XRD works by directing X-rays onto a crystalline material and analyzing the angles and intensities of the diffracted beams. The atomic planes within the crystal act as a three-dimensional grating, ...

For decades, chemists have relied on boron-bound nitrenes as fleeting intermediates in synthesis, but no one has been able to ...

MOF thin films, as porous materials, play a key role in many potential applications. Researchers have now demonstrated that the prototypical example for thin films has a completely different structure ...

The new method can determine crystal structures underlying experimental data thus far difficult to analyze. A joint research team led by Yuuki Kubo and Shiji Tsuneyuki of the University of Tokyo has ...