Underneath the Bragg Peaks: Structural Analysis of Complex Materials

Takeshi Egami and Simon J.L. Billinge (Eds.)0-08-042698-0, 0-08-042698-0, 9780080426983

* Introducing a unique method to study the atomic structure of nano-materials* Award winning research. Takeshi Egami received the 2003 Eugene Bertram Warren Diffraction Physics Award for the work described in the book.This book 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. While this subject might sound rather narrow, the fact is that today 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.

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Table of contents :
Content:
Series Page
Page ii

Copyright
Page iv

Preface
Pages xi-xv
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Preface to the first edition
Pages xvii-xxi
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Chapter 1 – Structure of Complex Materials
Pages 1-25
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Chapter 2 – Crystallographic Analysis of Complex Materials
Pages 27-54
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Chapter 3 – The Method of Total Scattering and Atomic Pair Distribution Function Analysis
Pages 55-111
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Chapter 4 – Total Scattering Experiments
Pages 113-158
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Chapter 5 – Data Collection Analysis
Pages 159-257
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Chapter 6 – Extracting Structural Information from the PDF
Pages 259-295
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Chapter 7 – Dynamics of the Local Structure
Pages 297-324
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Chapter 8 – Local Structure of Well-Ordered Crystals and Systems with Competing Interactions
Pages 325-369
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Chapter 9 – Defects in Crystals and Crystallographically Challenged Materials
Pages 371-405
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Chapter 10 – Nanoparticles and Clusters
Pages 407-439
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Chapter 11 – Local Packing in Molecular Materials
Pages 441-453
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Chapter 12 – Structure of Amorphous Materials
Pages 455-465
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Chapter 13 – Concluding Remarks
Pages 467-469
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Index
Pages 471-481