magnetic nanoparticles attracted a great deal of attention in the medical applications due to their unique properties. the most exceptional property of magnetic particles is their response to a magnetic force, and this property has been utilized in applications such as drug targeting, bioseparation, contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging (mri) and heating mediators for cancer therapy. in...

the safe and effective management of radioactive waste has been given utmost importance from the very inception of nuclear industry in india and it covers the entire range of activities from handling, treatment, conditioning, transport, storage and finally disposal. radioactive waste is generated at various stages of the nuclear fuel cycle, which includes the mining and milling of uranium ore, ...

CPD chairman’s message, Paolo Scardi 2 CPD projects: 2 Quantitative Phase Analysis RR, Ian Madsen Editor’s message, Robert Dinnebier 2 Thirty five years ago, Hugo Rietveld 3 WWW sites related to Powder Diffraction 5 IUCr Commission on Powder Diffraction 5 Rietveld Refinement from Powder Diffraction Data Beyond the abilities of Rietveld analysis: MEM-based pattern fitting with synchrotron X-ray ...

Global optimisation methods of structure determination from powder diffraction data have risen to prominence in a relatively short space of time and they now constitute a key approach in the examination of polycrystalline molecular organic materials. A correctly formulated global optimisation approach may be regarded as a "global Rietveld refinement" that is capable of delivering accurate cryst...

Y(2)GeO(5) (yttrium germanium penta-oxide) was synthesized by solid-state reaction at 1443 K. The arrangement, which has monoclinic symmetry, is isostructural with Dy(2)GeO(5) and presents two independent sites for the Y atoms. Around these atoms there are distorted six-coordinated YO(6) octa-hedra and seven-coordinated YO(7) penta-gonal bipyramids. The YO(7) polyhedra are linked together, shar...

In this paper the method of parametric Rietveld refinement is described, in which an ensemble of diffraction data collected as a function of time, temperature, pressure or any other variable are fitted to a single evolving structural model. Parametric refinement offers a number of potential benefits over independent or sequential analysis. It can lead to higher precision of refined parameters, ...