Crystallography in Materials Science;

Crystallography Materials Science & Metallurgy

Contributions of Crystallography to Materials Science*

The properties ofmaterials used in various domains of science and engineering are directly correlated to the microstructure. Crystallography is devoted to the investigaton ofmicrostructure of substances and materials by a variety of diffraction and spectroscopic methods. Several examples related to research in the department of materials science at the Technical University of Darmstadt are pres...

Serial snapshot crystallography for materials science with SwissFEL

New opportunities for studying (sub)microcrystalline materials with small unit cells, both organic and inorganic, will open up when the X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) presently being constructed in Switzerland (SwissFEL) comes online in 2017. Our synchrotron-based experiments mimicking the 4%-energy-bandpass mode of the SwissFEL beam show that it will be possible to record a diffraction patte...

Crystallography in Material Science

The compositions and purity of polycrystalline powder samples of Nd0.7Sr0.3 Mn1-x MgxO3 (x = 0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3), LaCr1-xMnxO3 (x = 0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3) and La1-x Ndx Cr0.5 Mn0.5 O3 (x = 0.0, 0.15, 0.2) were characterized by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. The magnetic properties were investigated by neutron powder diffraction technique and magnetization measurement using a SQUID. All t...

Crystallography in Material Science

We have investigated the nuclear density distributions in LaGaO3based perovskites, LaGaO3 (LG), (La0.9Sr0.1)GaO3(LSG), La(Ga0.9Mg0.1)O3(LGM), and (La0.8Sr0.2)(Ga0.8Mg0.15Co0.05)O3(LSGMC), to elucidate the ionic conduction path and disorder of oxide ions at elevated temperatures. Neutron diffraction data were collected in the temperature range from 26 to 1405oC in air, using a diffractometer HER...