In Situ High-Temperature X-ray Powder Diffraction and Infrared Spectroscopic Study of Melanterite, FeSO4·7H2O

High-Temperature X-Ray Powder Diffraction of Secondary Gypsum

In-situ high-pressure powder X-ray diffraction study of α-zirconium phosphate.

The high-pressure structural chemistry of α-zirconium phosphate, α-Zr(HPO4)2·H2O, was studied using in-situ high-pressure diffraction and synchrotron radiation. The layered phosphate was studied under both hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic conditions and Rietveld refinement carried out on the resulting diffraction patterns. It was found that under hydrostatic conditions no uptake of additional wa...

An in situ powder diffraction study of the structural mixed-phase of YBa2Cu3O6+x at 200 and 300C

In this study, the YBa2Cu3O6+x samples at temperatures 200 and 300°C, as the value of x ( the oxygen content in 0the basal plane)  increased under nearly thermodynamical equilibrium condition, the structure changed from the well- known tetragonal (T) to a mixed-phase (T+OII) region (orthorhombicII phase is a superstructure). This mixed-phase region suggests a first order T/OII phase transition ...

X-Ray Powder Diffraction Metrics

To compare sample data from x-ray diffraction a suitable metric is developed to evaluate the similarity (or dissimilarity) between samples and to compare it to a references. The methodology focuses on the d-lines and uses the intensity measurements indirectly in the algorithm. The resulting d-line distribution and summary statistics of the differences is used to establish whether a true differe...

In situ powder X-ray diffraction study of the hydro-thermal formation of LiMn2O4 nanocrystallites.

In situ measurements of the hydrothermal formation of LiMn2O4 (LMO) nanocrystallites reveal that the reaction progresses in steps, each creating a different crystalline phase. The reaction route is summarized as KMnO4→disordered δ-MnO2→(ordered δ-MnO2)→LiMn2O4→(γ-Mn2O3)→Mn3O4. The phase purity of LMO can be controlled by reaction time and temperature where phase pure LMO is obtained after 150-2...