(function(doc, html, url) { var widget = doc.createElement("div"); widget.innerHTML = html; var script = doc.currentScript; // e = a.currentScript; if (!script) { var scripts = doc.scripts; for (var i = 0; i < scripts.length; ++i) { script = scripts[i]; if (script.src && script.src.indexOf(url) != -1) break; } } script.parentElement.replaceChild(widget, script); }(document, '

Multilevel Atomic Structural Model for Opal-CT Materials

What is it about?

The structure of opal presents a missing link in the length scale between amorphous and crystalline states. This work revisits a long-standing debate about the intermediate range order in a natural opal (opal-CT) and presents a complete multilevel structural description for local distortions and interstratification features seen in powder diffraction and pair distribution function datasets.

Why is it important?

This work presents a complete multilevel structural description of natural opal-CT and explains many of the unusual features seen in X-ray powder diffraction patterns. This modeling approach can be adopted generally for analyzing layered materials and their assembly into 3D structures.

Read more on Kudos…
The following have contributed to this page:
Hsiu-Wen Wang
' ,"url"));