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Looking beyond Limitations of Diffraction Methods of Structural Analysis of Nanocrystalline Materials

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IUTAM Symposium on Modelling Nanomaterials and Nanosystems

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In this work we discuss how to learn about the real atomic structure of nanocrystalline materials without misinterpreting the results of powder diffraction experiments. We discuss implications of nano-size on powder diffractograms based on some theoretical models of nanograins. Examples of experimental studies on nanocrystalline diamond and SiC are demonstrated.

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  1. Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Bogdan Palosz, Ewa Grzanka, Stanislaw Gierlotka, Marcin Wojdyr & Svitlana Stelmakh

  2. Brimrose Corporation, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Witold Palosz

  3. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA

    Thomas Proffen

  4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, TCU, Fort Worth, TX, USA

    Ryan Rich & Svitlana Stelmakh

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Palosz, B. et al. (2009). Looking beyond Limitations of Diffraction Methods of Structural Analysis of Nanocrystalline Materials. In: Pyrz, R., Rauhe, J.C. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Modelling Nanomaterials and Nanosystems. IUTAM Bookseries, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9557-3_9

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