Underneath the Bragg Peaks: Structural Analysis of Complex Materials

By T. Egami, Simon J. L. Billinge. 2003

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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. 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 Praise for the first edition: Egami and Billinge are experts in the application of PDF analysis and their writing is both clear and insightful. The organisation of the book is also excellent, with illuminating examples provided throughout. If you have an interest in atomic structure of materials, and local structural details in particular, PDF methods can be profoundly useful. I would heartily recommend this book as a starting point if you are considering using PDF analysis in your own work. For more experienced practitioners, this text is a useful reference. Materials Today, June 2004 introduces a unique method to study the atomic structure of nanomaterials. It lays out the basic theory and methods of this important emerging technique. The first edition is considered the seminal text on the subject.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Modeling the structural evolution of carbide-derived carbons using quenched molecular dynamics (2010, background): “from which the coordination number function, n(r), and other quantities of interest may be obtained [17,18].”
Extracting the pair distribution function from white-beam X-ray total scattering data (2011, background): “The local order in a material is normally represented by the pair distribution function (PDF), g(r) (Egami & Billinge, 2003), variously called the radial distribution function or pair correlation function, which describes the variation of density as a function of radial distance from any atom in…”
Rapid acquisition pair distribution function (RA-PDF) analysis. (2003, methodology): “…Union of Crystallography Printed in Great Britain ± all rights reserved Rapid-acquisition pair distribution function (RA-PDF) analysis Peter J. Chupas,a* Xiangyun Qiu,b Jonathan C. Hanson,c Peter L. Lee,d Clare P. Greya and Simon J. L. Billingeb* aDepartment of Chemistry, State University of…”
X-ray scattering characterisation of nanoparticles (2015, background): “dark noise).[188,252] Recently, amorphous Si detectors have become available which can allow rapid PDF data collection with measurements approaching real time.”
Structural analysis of complex materials using the atomic pair distribution function — a practical guide (2003, methodology): “A much more comprehensive overview of this class of exciting new materials can be found in the book by Egami and Billinge (2002).”
Atomic-level structure and structure–property relationship in metallic glasses (2011, background): “This suggests that if one intentionally tune the X-ray energy to the absorption edge of a specific element, noticeable difference on the XRD spectrum would be observed, due to the change of scattering factor of the corresponding element (anomalous scattering) [83,94].”
Applications of an amorphous silicon-based area detector for high-resolution, high-sensitivity and fast time-resolved pair distribution function measurements (2007, methodology): “The PDF method probes atomic correlations, independent of translational symmetry, and, as such, the method is particularly relevant to the push towards nanoscale materials discovery and characterization (Egami & Billinge, 2004; Warren, 1990; Egami, 1990).”