Structural analysis of molecular materials using the pair distribution function

MW Terban, SJL Billinge - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
This is a review of atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis as applied to the study of
molecular materials. The PDF method is a powerful approach to study short-and …

On EXAFS Debye-Waller factor and recent advances

P Fornasini, R Grisenti - Journal of synchrotron radiation, 2015 - scripts.iucr.org
The effects of structural and vibrational disorder on the EXAFS signals are parameterized in
terms of the Debye Waller (DW) factor. Here the vibrational contribution is addressed, which …

Mechanochemical Synthesis: A Tool to Tune Cation Site Disorder and Ionic Transport Properties of Li3MCl6 (M = Y, Er) Superionic Conductors

R Schlem, S Muy, N Prinz, A Banik… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The lithium‐conducting, rare‐earth halides, Li3MX6 (M= Y, Er; X= Cl, Br), have garnered
significantly rising interest recently, as they have been reported to have oxidative stability …

Lithium ion conductivity in Li 2 S–P 2 S 5 glasses–building units and local structure evolution during the crystallization of superionic conductors Li 3 PS 4, Li 7 P 3 S 11 …

C Dietrich, DA Weber, SJ Sedlmaier, S Indris… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Motivated by the high lithium ion conductivities of lithium thiophosphate glasses, a detailed
study is performed on the local chemical nature of the thiophosphate building units within …

[HTML][HTML] An assessment of the lattice strain in the CrMnFeCoNi high-entropy alloy

LR Owen, EJ Pickering, HY Playford, HJ Stone… - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
The formation of single phase solid solutions from combinations of multiple principal
elements, with differing atomic radii, has led to the suggestion that the lattices of high …

Understanding the Instability of the Halide Perovskite CsPbI3 through Temperature‐Dependent Structural Analysis

DB Straus, S Guo, AMM Abeykoon… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the tremendous interest in halide perovskite solar cells, the structural reasons that
cause the all‐inorganic perovskite CsPbI3 to be unstable at room temperature remain …

Severe local lattice distortion in Zr-and/or Hf-containing refractory multi-principal element alloys

Y Tong, S Zhao, H Bei, T Egami, Y Zhang, F Zhang - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Whereas exceptional mechanical and radiation performances have been found in the
emergent body-centered cubic (BCC) refractory multi-principal element alloys (RMPEAs) …

Average and local structure, Debye temperature, and structural rigidity in some oxide compounds related to phosphor hosts

KA Denault, J Brgoch, SD Kloß… - … applied materials & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The average and local structure of the oxides Ba2SiO4, BaAl2O4, SrAl2O4, and Y2SiO5 are
examined to evaluate crystal rigidity in light of recent studies suggesting that highly …

Relationship between the atomic pair distribution function and small-angle scattering: implications for modeling of nanoparticles

CL Farrow, SJL Billinge - Acta Crystallographica Section A …, 2009 - journals.iucr.org
The relationship between the equations used in the atomic pair distribution function (PDF)
method and those commonly used in small-angle-scattering (SAS) analyses is explicitly …

Probing atomic distributions in mono-and bimetallic nanoparticles by supervised machine learning

J Timoshenko, CJ Wrasman, M Luneau, T Shirman… - Nano …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Properties of mono-and bimetallic metal nanoparticles (NPs) may depend strongly on their
compositional, structural (or geometrical) attributes, and their atomic dynamics, all of which …