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Serial crystallography in material science

What is it about?

X-ray powder diffraction is widely used in material science. X-ray single-crystal diffraction is much more powerful than powder diffraction in characterising and structure solving. However many important materials are polycrystalline and are not suitable for single-crystal diffraction. We proposed a new method, which enables collection of 3-dimensional single-crystal diffraction data using powder (polycrystalline) samples.

Why is it important?

The possibility of collecting a set of 3-dimensional single-crystal diffraction data using powder samples means that we can make use of all kinds of powerful methods of single-crystal diffraction analysis for polycrystalline sample without the necessity of growing sufficiently big and good single crystals.

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Haifu Fan
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