Underneath the Bragg Peaks: Structural Analysis of Complex Materials (Volume 16) (Pergamon Materials Series, Volume 16)

* Introducing a unique method to study the atomic structure of nano-materials * Award winning research. Takeshi Egami received the 2003 Eugene Bertram Warren Diffraction Physics Award for the work described in the book. 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. While this subject might sound rather narrow, the fact is that today 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. Content: Series Page Page ii Copyright Page iv Preface Pages xi-xv Simon J.L. Billinge, Takeshi Egami Preface to the first edition Pages xvii-xxi Takeshi Egami, Simon J.L. Billinge Chapter 1 - Structure of Complex Materials Pages 1-25 Egami Takeshi, Simon J.L. Billinge Chapter 2 - Crystallographic Analysis of Complex Materials Pages 27-54 Egami Takeshi, Simon J.L. Billinge Chapter 3 - The Method of Total Scattering and Atomic Pair Distribution Function Analysis Pages 55-111 Egami Takeshi, Simon J.L. Billinge Chapter 4 - Total Scattering Experiments Pages 113-158 Egami Takeshi, Simon J.L. Billinge Chapter 5 - Data Collection Analysis Pages 159-257 Egami Takeshi, Simon J.L. Billinge Chapter 6 - Extracting Structural Information from the PDF Pages 259-295 Egami Takeshi, Simon J.L. Billinge Chapter 7 - Dynamics of the Local Structure Pages 297-324 Egami Takeshi, Simon J.L. Billinge Chapter 8 - Local Structure of Well-Ordered Crystals and Systems with Competing Interactions Pages 325-369 Egami Takeshi, Simon J.L. Billinge Chapter 9 - Defects in Crystals and Crystallographically Challenged Materials Pages 371-405 Egami Takeshi, Simon J.L. Billinge Chapter 10 - Nanoparticles and Clusters Pages 407-439 Egami Takeshi, Simon J.L. Billinge Chapter 11 - Local Packing in Molecular Materials Pages 441-453 Egami Takeshi, Simon J.L. Billinge Chapter 12 - Structure of Amorphous Materials Pages 455-465 Egami Takeshi, Simon J.L. Billinge Chapter 13 - Concluding Remarks Pages 467-469 Egami Takeshi, Simon J.L. Billinge Index Pages 471-481 This book describes a technique of structural study, the atomic-pair distribution function analysis. This is a relatively new technique, with a strong promise of wide application in the study of the local structure of crystalline materials and materials science in general. Crystallography has been the standard technique of structural study for a long time since the turn of the century, and take into account the Bragg Peaks; the PDF methods utilize information buried in-between the Bragg Peaks in the form of diffuse scattering. This book describes the focus on recovering important information from underneath the Bragg Peaks that is usually discarded in the conventional crystallographic analysis. For a long time complexity has been a bad word for scientists.