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Underneath the Bragg Peaks
Structural Analysis of Complex Materials
2nd Edition - November 22, 2012
Authors: Takeshi Egami, Simon J.L. Billinge
Hardback ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 7 1 3 3 - 9
eBook ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 7 1 4 1 - 4
Underneath the Bragg Peaks: Structural Analysis of Complex Materials focuses on the structural determination of crystalline solids with extensive disorder. Well-established… Read more
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Underneath the Bragg Peaks: Structural Analysis of Complex Materials focuses on the structural determination of crystalline solids with extensive disorder. Well-established methods exist for characterizing the structure of fully crystalline solids or fully disordered materials such as liquids and glasses, but there is a dearth of techniques for the cases in-between, crystalline solids with internal atomic and nanometer scale disorder. Egami and Billinge discuss how to fill the gap using modern tools of structural characterization. This problem is encountered in the structural characterization of a surprisingly wide range of complex materials of interest to modern technology and is becoming increasingly important.
Takeshi Egami received the 2003 Eugene Bertram Warren Diffraction Physics Award for the work described in the book.
The authors received 2010 J. D. Hanawalt Award from the International Union of Crystallography largely based on the success of this book.
- Introduces a unique method to study the atomic structure of nanomaterials
- Lays out the basic theory and methods of this important emerging technique
- The first edition is considered the seminal text on the subject
Academics and Professionals working in materials science
Pergamon Materials Series
Preface
Preface to the first edition
Chapter 1. Structure of Complex Materials
1.1 Crystallography and Beyond
1.2 The Power of Total Scattering and PDF Methods
1.3 Resources for Learning Total Scattering and PDF Methods
References
Further reading
Chapter 2. Crystallographic Analysis of Complex Materials
2.1 Theoretical Background
2.2 Crystallographic Analysis
2.3 Crystallographic Methods and Disorder: Limitations of Crystallographic Methods
References
General Texts on Electron Diffraction
Chapter 3. The Method of Total Scattering and Atomic Pair Distribution Function Analysis
3.1 Total Scattering and the PDF
3.2 Compositionally Resolved Partial PDF
3.3 Magnetic Correlation Functions
3.4 The PDF in Higher Dimensions
3.5 Error Analysis for the PDF
3.6 Information Content in the PDF and the Nyquist–Shannon Sampling Theorem
References
Chapter 4. Total Scattering Experiments
4.1 General Considerations
4.2 The Neutron Scattering Experiment
4.3 The X-ray Scattering Experiment
4.4 The Electron PDF Experiment
References
4.5 Selected Bibliography
Chapter 5. Data Collection Analysis
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Data Analysis Overview
5.3 Obtaining S(Q) in Practice
5.4 Real-World Data Analysis
References
Selected Bibliography
Chapter 6. Extracting Structural Information from the PDF
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Direct Information
6.3 Modeling the PDF
6.4 Ab Initio Nanostructure Solution from PDF Data
References
Chapter 7. Dynamics of the Local Structure
7.1 Measurement of Inelastic Scattering
7.2 Dynamic Structure Factor
7.3 Correlated Dynamics and the PDF
7.4 Dynamic Pair-Density Function
7.5 Effect of Inelastic Scattering on the PDF
References
Chapter 8. Local Structure of Well-Ordered Crystals and Systems with Competing Interactions
8.1 Structure of Well-Ordered Crystals
8.2 Quasicrystals
8.3 Competing Interactions in Complex Oxides
8.4 Local Correlations and Phase Transitions
8.5 Phase Transition in Systems with Competing Interaction: Lithium-Nickelate
References
Chapter 9. Defects in Crystals and Crystallographically Challenged Materials
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Defective Crystals
9.3 Chemical Short-Range Order
9.4 In Situ and In Operando Studies
References
Chapter 10. Nanoparticles and Clusters
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Information in the PDFs of Nanoparticles
10.3 Clusters Suspended in a Solvent
10.4 Clusters and Molecules Intercalated in Nanoporous Solids
References
Chapter 11. Local Packing in Molecular Materials
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Fingerprinting
11.3 Sensitivity Dependence on Qmax
11.4 Modeling Molecular Systems
References
Chapter 12. Structure of Amorphous Materials
12.1 PDF Analysis of Amorphous Materials
12.2 Structure of Multicomponent Glasses
12.3 Structural Changes due to Structural Relaxation
12.4 Structural Changes due to Mechanical Deformation
References
Chapter 13. Concluding Remarks
Index
- No. of pages: 422
- Language: English
- Published: November 22, 2012
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Hardback ISBN: 9780080971339
- eBook ISBN: 9780080971414
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Takeshi Egami
Affiliations and expertise
University ofTennessee, Knoxville, USASB
Simon J.L. Billinge
Affiliations and expertise
Columbia University, New York, NY, USA