Principles and Applications of Powder Diffraction

Powder diffraction is one of the primary techniques used to characterize materials, providing structural information even when the crystallite size is too small for single crystal x-ray diffraction methods. There has been a significant increase in the application of powder diffraction in recent years, both in research and manufacturing, fuelled by improved instrumentation, data processing and awareness of the information that can be obtained. Powder diffraction allows for rapid, non-destructive analysis of multi-component mixtures without the need for extensive sample preparation. This gives laboratories the ability to quickly analyse unknown materials and perform materials characterization in such fields as chemistry, materials science, geology, mineralogy, forensics, archaeology, and the biological and pharmaceutical sciences. This book provides a concise introduction to modern powder diffraction methods with particular emphasis on practical aspects. It covers the background theory of diffraction in a form approachable by those with an undergraduate degree. Whilst individual chapters are written as stand alone sections, the text is sufficiently focused so that it can be read in its entirety by the non-specialist who wants to gain a rapid overview of what they can do with modern powder diffraction methods.

ISBN 1405162228   Pages 400 ISBN13 9781405162227 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Weight (grammes) 1030 Imprint Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)   Published in Chicester Format Hardback   Height (mm) 253 Publication date 05 Sep 2008   Width (mm) 182 Library of Congress 2008002548   Spine width (mm) 26 DEWEY 548.83   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

1		An Overview of Powder Diffraction by Lachlan M. D. Cranswick		1
2		Introduction to Diffraction by Abraham Clearfield		73
3		Practical Aspects by Joseph H. Reibenspies and Nattamai Bhuvanesh		123
4		Profile Analysis by Arnt Kern		158
5		Introduction to Non-Laboratory Radiation Sources by Peter J. Chupas and Karena W. Chapman		199
6		Phase Identification and Quantitative Methods by Pamela Whitfield and Lyndon Mitchell		226
7		Structure Solution by Armel Le Bail		261
8		Structure Refinement by James A. Kaduk		310
9		Other Topics by E. Andrew Payzant		365
		Index		381

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