We provide standardised measurements using established techniques including high-resolution powder diffraction, small-angle scattering, total scattering, and pair distribution function analysis.
High-resolution powder diffraction
High-resolution X-ray powder diffraction (HR-XRPD) is ideal for identification, refinement, and solution of microcrystalline structures. This technique provides a rapid diagnostic for detecting impurities, quantifying phases, determining molecular-scale and morphological properties of matter, and much more.
Small-angle scattering
Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) probes the material over very low spatial frequencies. This allows observations of inhomogeneity or periodicity in the density, which can be particularly useful for identifying microphase segregation or mesoporosity.
Total scattering
Total scattering (TS) goes beyond typical assessment of diffraction peaks to consider the diffuse intensities scattered underneath and in between. These carry further information about defects, disorder, dynamics, and morphology that underpin functional properties.
Pair distribution function
The pair distribution function (PDF) analysis gives an alternative perspective to the total scattering signal by transforming the data to a spatial dependence, allowing properties such as bond lengths, correlated motions, and local structural features to be observed directly.
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Quantitative phase analysis
Quantitative phase analysis involves the identification and estimation of different phases present in your sample. We can perform semi- or fully quantitative assessments to clarify the composition of your materials for discovery, optimization, safety, and other further applications.
High-throughput screening
Whether for discovery, selection, or regulation purposes, we can help you screen thousands of materials for consistency or to detect outliers. Whether for a big, one-time project, or for regular validation of in-line quality control, we can track properties important to you including impurity detection, phase composition, crystallinity, crystallite size, strain, and more.
Statistical analysis of large datasets
Understand your materials systems over a wide range of parameters. Ideal for large-scale design of experiments based tests and round robin studies on complex processes. Determine the most important parameters, key trends, and correlate with other observations.
Rietveld & real-space refinement
Precision refinements of single or multi-phase materials for detailed quantification of structural properties including lattice metric, atomic coordinations, conformations, atomic displacement behaviour, microstructure, site disorder, stacking faults, and more.
Size & strain assessment
Quantify key trends in crystallite size, morphology, and strain in your system. Identify key physical properties to help tune your materials synthesis and post-processing protocols.
Crystal structure determination
Crystal structure determination from powder diffraction is a great alternative when single crystals cannot easily be prepared. Powder data also provide a bulk average structure, giving a better representation of the true on-average structure across a large population of crystallites. With suitable starting information, indexing, profile fitting, phasing, and refinement can all be performed directly on the measurement.