In this work, the crystal evolution of α-Al2O3 composites reinforced with LBA platelets were monitored by XRD Rietveld. addition, mechanical properties totally densified specimens researched Vickers and Knoop indentations. These composite materials prepared a sol-gel process from alumina seeded boehmite sol lanthanum nitrate. X-ray diffraction data have been studied Rietveld refinements line pr...

We report the crystal structure of the anhydrous phase of cimetidine hydrochloride, determined directly from powder X-ray diffraction data. The material was prepared by dehydration of the readily obtained monohydrate form of cimetidine hydrochloride, the only form for which a crystal structure has previously been reported. As such, solid-state dehydration processes typically yield the product p...

Neutron diffraction spectra were obtained during various stages of a reversible stress-induced austenite to martensite phase transformation in superelastic NiTi. This was accomplished by neutron diffraction measurements on bulk polycrystalline NiTi samples simultaneously subjected to mechanical loading. Analysis of the data was carried out using individual lattice plane ~hkl! reflections as wel...

Introduction: The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity recently completed its fourth drill sampling of sediments on Mars. The Confidence Hills (CH) sample was drilled from a rock located in the Pahrump Hills region at the base of Mt. Sharp in Gale Crater. The CheMin X-ray diffractometer completed five nights of analysis on the sample, more than previously executed for a drill sample, a...

In using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and the Rietveld method there are many factors that affect the results and the interpretation of the data that are collected. One of these is microabsorption. Microabsorption has historically been ignored or accounted for using the Brindley correction. This correction has come under much debate in recent years. A recent Round Robin study on quantitative analysis...

Fitting of full X-ray diffraction patterns is an effective method for quantifying abundances during X-ray diffraction (XRD) analyses. The method is based on the principal that the observed diffraction pattern is the sum of the individual phases that compose the sample. By adding an internal standard (usually corundum) to both the observed patterns and to those for individual pure phases (standa...

X-ray diffraction is one of the most effective tools for the characterization of the stacking defects which occur frequently in clayminerals.Modelling of the diffraction patterns of oriented mounts is often used for obtaining structural information about the nature of stacking order. Manual matching of calculated and observed patterns is time consuming and the results are user dependent and esp...

Large advances in the development of catalytic materials were made with the synthesis of zeolites, which are porous crystalline materials that can be used as catalysts, catalyst supports, sorbents and ion exchangers. Zeolite structures consist of T-atoms tetrahedrally coordinated to oxygen atoms, where T can be AI, Si, or any other element capable of isomorphous substitution for Si. The unavail...