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Once a material has been fabricated, how does one assess whether the synthetic technique has been successful? This chapter describes a plethora of sophisticated techniques that may be used to characterize the structure of various classes of materials. Precedents from the literature are used to provide examples of real-world characterization studies to illustrate the utility of the various techniques.
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Fahlman, B.D. (2023). Materials Characterization. In: Materials Chemistry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18784-1_7
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