Uniting Electron Crystallography and Powder Diffraction (Springer Netherlands, 2012)
Preface -- Part 1 – Powder Diffraction -- Powder Diffraction: By Decades -- Rietveld Refinement -- Structure Solution - an Overview -- Inorganic Materials -- Organic Compounds -- Laboratory X-ray Diffraction -- Synchrotron X-Ray Powder Diffraction -- Ultra Fast Powder Diffraction -- Taking it to Extremes – Powder Diffraction at Elevated Pressures.-Structure Solution by Charge Flipping -- Structure Solution: Global Optimisation Methods -- Proteins and Powders: Technical Developments -- Proteins and Powders: An Overview -- Parametric Powder Diffraction -- Powder Diffraction + Computational Methods -- Information on Imperfections -- Pair Distribution Function Technique: Principles and Methods -- Debye Analysis -- Quantitative Phase Analysis -- Quantifying amorphous phases -- Quantitative phase analysis: method developments -- Texture - an Overview -- The future of powder diffraction is 2-D -- Part 2 - Electron crystallography -- Electron Crystallography – New methods to explore Structure and Properties of the Nano World -- Image formation in the Electron Microscope -- Models for Precession Electron Diffraction -- Structure Solution using HRTEM -- Combination of X-ray Powder Diffraction, Electron Diffraction and HRTEM data -- Automated Electron Diffraction Tomography -- Automated Quantitative 3D Electron Diffraction Rotation Tomography -- Introduction to ADT/ADT3D -- Electrostatic Potential determined from Electron Diffraction Data -- Domino Phase Retrieval Algorithm for Structure Solution -- LARBED: Exploring the 4th dimension in Electron Diffraction -- Shadow Imaging for Charge Distribution Analysis -- Electron Diffraction of Protein 3D Nanocrystals -- Parallel-beam Diffraction and Direct Imaging in an aberration-corrected STEM.-Electron diffraction of commensurately and incommensurately modulated Materials -- Detection of Magnetic Circular Dichroism using TEM and EELS -- Index.-
The polycrystalline and nanocrystalline states play an increasingly important role in exploiting the properties of materials, encompassing applications as diverse as pharmaceuticals, catalysts, solar cells and energy storage. A knowledge of the three-dimensional atomic and molecular structure of materials is essential for understanding and controlling their properties, yet traditional single-crystal X-ray diffraction methods lose their power when only polycrystalline and nanocrystalline samples are available. It is here that powder diffraction and single-crystal electron diffraction techniques take over, substantially extending the range of applicability of the crystallographic principles of structure determination.  This volume, a collection of teaching contributions presented at the Crystallographic Course in Erice in 2011, clearly describes the fundamentals and the state-of-the-art of powder diffraction and electron diffraction methods in materials characterisation, encompassing a diverse range of disciplines and materials stretching from archeometry to zeolites.   As such, it is a comprehensive and valuable resource for those wishing to gain an understanding of the broad applicability of these two rapidly developing fields.