scholarly journals Structural Chemistry of Some Phases in The YC-Ni-B System

1994 ◽  
Vol 376 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. C. Chakoumakos
Keyword(s):  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Single Phase ◽  
Rietveld Analysis ◽  
Neutron Powder Diffraction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Neutron Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
Arc Melting ◽  
Phase Pure

ABSTRACTNiB, monoclinic Ni4B3, Ni2B and Ni3B were prepared by arc-melting and their roomtemperature crystal structures were refined by Rietveld analysis of neutron powder diffraction data. The NiB refinement is altogether new data. Although the B atoms in NiB form characteristic zigzag chains, the primary coordination of each atom by atoms of the other kind is similar and distinctively sevenfold, with one short (2.117 Å), two intermediate (2.152 Å), and four long (2.163 Å) bonds. Other samples with stoichiometries (YC)nNi2B2, n = 3, 4, did not yield single-phase material, but both x-ray and neutron powder diffraction suggest that the n = 4 structure is present in both of these samples. Phase-pure samples of these homologues may require non-stoichiometry and a more controlled thermal history than is attainable by arc melting.

scholarly journals Neutron powder diffraction analysis of guanosine dihydrate using MEM

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (a1) ◽  
pp. C1573-C1573
Author(s):  
Yoko Sugawara ◽  
Shigefumi Yamamura ◽  
Akinori Hoshikawa ◽  
Toru Ishigaki ◽  
Takashi Kamiyama
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Bonds ◽  
Neutron Diffraction ◽  
Diffraction Analysis ◽  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Rietveld Analysis ◽  
Neutron Powder Diffraction ◽  
Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
Hydrogen Atoms ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Neutron Powder Diffraction Data

In majority of the crystals of pharmaceutical compounds, hydrogen bonds play a crucial role. Determination of a hydrogen position is highly important, in order to investigate hydrogen bonds especially in the case of hydrates. We have been investigating humidity-induced phase transitions of hydrates systematically [1,2]. Unique characteristics of hydration water molecules have prompted us to explore the phenomena more precisely. Neutron diffraction analysis is a powerful tool to determine hydrogen positions. However, large single crystals are required because of weak neutron diffraction intensities. Under such background, we carried out neutron powder diffraction analysis of guanosine dihydrate using the Maximum Entropy Method (MEM). Neutron powder diffraction data of guanosine dihydrate (C10H13N5O5.2H2O; crystal data: monoclinic, space group P21, a = 17.518, b = 11.278, c = 6.658 Å, β= 98.170, Z = 4) were measured by iMATERIA at MLF in J-PARC (Figure 1(a)). Rietveld analysis was carried out using atomic coordinates of non-hydrogen atoms determined by X-ray analysis and those of hydrogen atoms which were placed on the geometrically calculated positions using the averaged X-H bond lengths determined by neutron analysis referencing the hydrogen positions estimated by X-ray analysis. Using Fo and σ by Rietveld analysis, the nuclear density distribution was calculated by MEM (Figure 1(b)). Nuclear densities of the hydrogen atoms of one water molecule (W1 in Figure 1) were elongated, which is consistent with the results of molecular dynamic simulation [2]. The effective usage of MEM to elucidate hydrogen atom positions from neutron powder diffraction data will be discussed together with that of difference Fourier calculations.

scholarly journals Pressing the Limits of Rietveld Refinement

1988 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 297 ◽  
Author(s):  
RA Young
Keyword(s):  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Diffraction Data ◽  
Structure Refinement ◽  
Site Occupancy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Neutron Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
Refinement Method

Two examples are given, one with X-ray data and one with netltron data, of the determination of structural detail which appear to be at the edge of current possibility for the Rietveld structure-refinement method. In the first example, 2�2 wt% Sb substituted in CalO(P04)6F2 was located. X-ray powder diffraction data collected with special attention to intensity precision and scale constancy were used. The problem was solved through comparison of intra-sample site-occupancy ratios between Sb-doped and undoped samples. In the second example, high quality, high resolution neutron powder diffraction data were required. The problem was to distinguish between two subtly different models of kaolinite for which the R-weighted-pattern values differed only by 2 or 3 units in the third digit and, particularly, to understand the basis for the consistent programmatic choice of one of the models (PI) over the other. The answer was found in the calculated and 'observed' intensities for (h+ k)-odd reflections; although they were very small, less than 1% of the intensities of the main reflections, many of them were distinctly nonzero. Even though these reflections were not separately observable, because of overlap and small size, they nonetheless correlated with one model sufficiently better than the other to produce the consistent choice.

BaCeN2, ein Bariumnitridocerat(IV) mit einer Struktur vom anti-TiP-Typ / BaCeN2, a Bariumnitridocerate(IV ) with a Structure of the anti-TiP Type

1994 ◽  
Vol 49 (9) ◽  
pp. 1169-1174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Seeger ◽  
Joachim Strähle
Keyword(s):  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Diffraction Data ◽  
Neutron Powder Diffraction ◽  
Type Structure ◽  
Stoichiometric Ratio ◽  
Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Neutron Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
Moisture Sensitive ◽  
Trigonal Prismatic

Reaction of Ba3N2 with CeN in the stoichiometric ratio 1:3 at 850 °C under an atmosphere of N2 followed by quenching yields air and moisture sensitive BaCeN2. The product crystallizes isotypically to β-RbScO2 with the anti-TiP type structure in the hexagonal space group P63/mmc with a = 365.06(2), c = 1266.03(3) pm, Z = 2. The structure was determined using X-ray and neutron powder diffraction data. In the structure the Ba2+ cations occupy trigonal prismatic holes with distances Ba-N = 288(1) pm while the Ce atoms are in octahedral positions with distances C e -N = 242.4(8) pm

scholarly journals The crystal chemistry and electrical properties of Fe doped Ca12Al14O33 (Mayenite)

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 591-597
Author(s):  
S.N. Ude ◽  
C.J. Rawn ◽  
T.T. Meek
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Electrical Properties ◽  
Crystal Chemistry ◽  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Synthesis Method ◽  
Neutron Powder Diffraction ◽  
Solid State Synthesis ◽  
Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Phase Pure

X-ray and neutron powder diffraction have been used to study the crystal chemistry of Fe doped mayenite (Ca12Al14-xFexO33). Solid- state synthesis was used to prepare Ca12Al14-xFexO33 where x = 0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.5 and 0.6 and the citrate gel route was used to prepare Ca12Al14-xFexO33 where x = 0, 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 and 0.4. X-ray powder diffraction data indicate that samples with the same composition but synthesized by the citrate gel route were more likely to be phase pure than samples obtained by traditional solid-state synthesis. The refined lattice parameters were observed to increase with increasing Fe concentration, irrespective of the synthesis method. Refined neutron powder data confirm that Fe is going into Al site rather than Ca site. A 2-point probe was used to measure the electrical properties of the Fe doped citrate gel synthesized samples and showed that the resistivity increases for the Fe doped samples compared to the undoped mayenite.

On the numerical corrections of time-of-flight neutron powder diffraction data

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 710-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxim Avdeev ◽  
James Jorgensen ◽  
Simine Short ◽  
Robert B. Von Dreele
Keyword(s):  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Diffraction Data ◽  
Time Of Flight ◽  
Wavelength Dependence ◽  
Rietveld Analysis ◽  
Neutron Powder Diffraction ◽  
Standard Reference Materials ◽  
Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
Neutron Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
Voigt Function

Time-of-flight neutron powder diffraction data for NIST Standard Reference Materials have been used to study the adequacy of the peak profile model obtained from a convolution of back-to-back exponentials with a pseudo-Voigt function that is widely used in Rietveld refinement. It is shown that, while the empirical models ford-spacing (wavelength) dependence of Gaussian and Lorentzian components of the pseudo-Voigt function and rise exponent are satisfactory, the behavior of the decay exponent and peak positions demonstrate significant deviations, which can be corrected by numerical methods. The practical side of this process as implemented inGSASandFULLPROFand the effect of the corrections on the Rietveld analysis results are discussed.

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