scholarly journals Rietveld Structure Refinement of the Stilbite Crystals from Deccan Traps (India) Using X-ray Powder Diffraction Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (7) ◽  
pp. 2379-2384
Author(s):  
Gheorghe Branoiu ◽  
Ibrahim Ramadan
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Rietveld Refinement ◽  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Diffraction Data ◽  
Structure Refinement ◽  
Deccan Traps ◽  
Western India ◽  
Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Cell Parameters

The crystal structure of a spectacular sample of stilbite from Pune region located in the Deccan Traps (western India) has been refined using X-Ray powder diffraction data and the Rietveld method. The Rietveld refinement was carried out using the computer program Diffracplus TOPAS 4.1. The pseudo-Voigt (pV) profile function was used for the fit of the peaks. The Rietveld refinement of the analyzed sample in the space group C2/m (No.12): a=13.606 �, b=18.260 �, c=11.253 �, b=127.432�, Z=8, confirm the basic stilbite structure. The chemical composition of the stilbite crystals from Pune region (India) was determined by EDX analysis. The paper presents a new set of the unit cell parameters and fractional coordinates that define the stilbite crystal structure. The quality of the sample analyzed was pristine, the sample being collected from an association of apophyllite-stilbite crystals of centimetric dimensions.

scholarly journals Synthesis and crystal structure of the quaternary semiconductor Cu2NiGeS4, a new stannite-type compound

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (4 Jul-Aug) ◽  
pp. 355 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. E. Delgado ◽  
And V. Sagredo
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Rietveld Refinement ◽  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Diffraction Data ◽  
Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
Unit Cell Parameters ◽  
Quaternary Compound ◽  
Synthesis And Crystal Structure ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Cell Parameters

The crystal structure of the quaternary compound Cu2NiGeS4, belonging to the system I2-II-IV-VI4, was characterized by Rietveld refinement using X-ray powder diffraction data. This material crystallize with a stannite structure in the tetragonal space group I2m (Nº 121), Z = 2, unit cell parameters a = 5.3384(1) Å, c = 10.5732(3) Å, V = 301.32(3) Å3, acknowledged as a normal valence adamantane-structure.

A powder diffraction study of MIBaIn2(PO4)3 (MI=Na, K, Cs) with a langbeinite-type structure

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Louër ◽  
V. Moise ◽  
M. Liégeois-Duyckaerts ◽  
A. Rulmont
Keyword(s):  
Diffraction Study ◽  
Rietveld Refinement ◽  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Diffraction Data ◽  
Type Structure ◽  
Monochromatic Radiation ◽  
Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
Asymmetric Unit ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Cell Parameters

Three phosphates, MIBaIn2(PO4)3 with MI=Na, K, Cs, isostructural to the langbeinite structure, have been studied from powder diffraction data collected with monochromatic radiation obtained from a conventional X-ray source. Precise powder data are reported, as well as cell parameters, i.e., a=10.026 08(9) Å, a=10.121 57(13) Å and a=10.226 94(9) Å for MI=Na, K and Cs, respectively. A Rietveld refinement has been carried out (space group P213), with final RF factors, 0.061, 0.041 and 0.027, and Rwp factors, 0.196, 0.142 and 0.129, for MI=Na, K and Cs, respectively. There are two octahedrally coordinated In3+ ions in the asymmetric unit and the final refinements suggest disorder on the two sites of the MI/Ba sublattice.

Rietveld refinement of the crystal structures of hexagonal Y6Cr4+xAl43−x (x=2.57) and tetragonal YCr4−xAl8+x (x=1.22)

1995 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Černý ◽  
K. Yvon ◽  
T. I. Yanson ◽  
M. B. Manyako ◽  
O. I. Bodak
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structures ◽  
Rietveld Refinement ◽  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Diffraction Data ◽  
Structure Refinement ◽  
Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
Space Group ◽  
X Ray

Y6Cr4+xAl43−x (x = 2.57); space group P63/mcm, a = 10.8601(1) Å, c = 17.6783(3) Å, V= 1805.7(1) Å3, Z=2; isostructural to Yb6Cr4+xAl43−x, (x=1.76) with two aluminium sites partially occupied by chromium (44% and 27% Cr). YCr4−xAl8+x (x=1.22); space group I4/mmm, a = 9.0299(2) Å, c = 5.1208(2) Å, V=417.55(3) Å3, Z=2, disordered variant of CeMn4Al8 with one chromium site (8f) partially occupied by aluminium (33% Al); X-ray powder diffraction data were collected on a well-crystallized multiphase sample containing 43 wt.% of Y6Cr4+xAl43−x, 27 wt.% of Y2Cr8−xAl16+x, 16 wt.% of Al, 13 wt.% of YAl3, and traces of Y2O3. Structure refinement converged at Rwp = 2.0% and RB = 3.5, 3.6% resp. for a total of 78 parameters and 1190 reflections.

Zýkait z dolu Lehnschafter u Mikulova v Krušných horách (Česká republika) - popis a Ramanova spektroskopie

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-248
Author(s):  
Jiří Sejkora ◽  
Roman Gramblička
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Raman Spectroscopy ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Diffraction Data ◽  
Water Molecules ◽  
Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
Unit Cell Parameters ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Cell Parameters

The zýkaite samples were found at abandoned Lehnschafter mine near Mikulov in the Krušné hory Mts. (Czech Republic). It occurs as irregular white to light greenish rounded to spherical aggregates up to 1.5 cm in size composed of tiny acicular crystals up to 5 - 10 μm in length. Its empirical formula can be expressed as (Fe3.79Al0.02)Σ3.81[(AsO4)2.66(PO4)0.20(SiO4)0.07]Σ2.93 (SO4)1.07(OH)0.44·15H2O (mean of 3 spot analyzes; on the basis of As+P+S+Si = 4 apfu).Zýkaite is probably monoclinic, with the unit-cell parameters refined from X-ray powder diffraction data: a 21.195(8), b 7.052(2), c 36.518(17) Å, β 91.07(2)° and V 5458(2) Å3. Raman spectroscopy documented the presence of both (AsO4)3- and (SO4)2- units in the crystal structure of zýkaite. Multiple Raman bands connected with vibrations of water molecules and (AsO4)3- groups indicate the presence of more structurally non-equivalent these groups in the crystal stucture of zýkaite.

Gobbinsite from Magheramorne Quarry, Northern Ireland

1994 ◽  
Vol 58 (393) ◽  
pp. 615-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilberto Artioli ◽  
Harry Foy
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Crystal Chemistry ◽  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Diffraction Data ◽  
Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Cell Parameters ◽  
Full Profile ◽  
Profile Technique

AbstractThe rare zeolite mineral gobbinsite has been found in vugs of altered basalts at the Magheramorne Quarry, Lane, Northern Ireland, intimately associated with phillipsite. The crystal chemistry of the sample (Na4.3Ca0.6Si10.4Al5.6O32·12H2O) is close to that reported for gobbinsite from the type locality. The crystal structure of the Magheramorne gobbinsite has been refined from X-ray powder diffraction data using the multiphase Rietveld full profile technique. The orthorhombic Pmn21 space group is confirmed. The refined cell parameters (a = 10.1027(5), b = 9.8016(5), and c = 10.1682(6) Å) are slightly different from those reported in the literature for the K-rich gobbinsite from Island Magee (a = 10.108(1), b = 9.766(1), and c = 10.171(1) Å), whose structure was also refined from powder data.

Crystal structure determination from powder diffraction data of the coumarin vanillin chalcone

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afef Ghouili ◽  
Jan Rohlicek ◽  
Taïcir Ben Ayed ◽  
Rached Ben Hassen
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Fourier Transform ◽  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Diffraction Data ◽  
Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
Unit Cell Parameters ◽  
Schmidt Reaction ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Cell Parameters ◽  
C Nmr

4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl-4-hydroxycoumarin chalcone (C19H14O6) was synthesized by the Claisen–Schmidt reaction with the condensation of 3-acetyl-4-hydroxycoumarin with 4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzaldehyde (vanillin). The new compound was characterized by Fourier transform infrared microscopy, UV–vis 1H, and 13C NMR spectroscopy and its crystal structure was ab initio determined from laboratory X-ray powder diffraction data. The crystal structure is monoclinic with unit-cell parameters a = 14.3181(4), b = 8.040 71(9), c = 13.5524(3), β = 100.3559(13)°, V = 1534.84(6) Å3, and space group P21/c.

Neutron Diffraction from Novel Materials

MRS Bulletin ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (12) ◽  
pp. 24-28
Author(s):  
Paolo G. Radaelli ◽  
James D. Jorgensen
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Neutron Diffraction ◽  
Rietveld Refinement ◽  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Diffraction Data ◽  
Neutron Powder Diffraction ◽  
Inorganic Crystal Structure Database ◽  
Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
New Materials ◽  
X Ray

The discovery and development of new materials is the foundation of the science and technology “food chains.” Examples of new materials with novel properties that have stimulated new scientific questions and/or led to new technologies include liquid crystals, advanced batteries, structural ceramics, dielectrics, ferroelectrics, catalysts, high-temperature superconductors, har dmagnets, and magnetoresistive devices. Establishing the crystal structure of a newly discovered Compound is a mandatory first step, but the most important contribution of diffraction techniques is to provide an understanding of the relationships among chemical composition, crystal structure, and physical behavior. In this way, diffraction experiments provide critical Information for testing theories that explain novel behavior and guide the optimization of new materials to meet the demands of emerging technologies.The first samples of newly discovered materials are often polycrystalline. With state-of-the-art neutron powder diffraction data and Rietveld refinement techniques, for structures of modest complexity, the precision for atom positions rivals that obtained by single-crystal diffraction. Rietveld refinement is a method of obtaining accurate values for atom positions and other structural parameters from powder diffraction data by least-squares fitting of a calculated model to the full diffraction pattern. As evidence of thi s success, the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database contains 6044 entries from neutron powder diffraction, 7096 from laboratory x-ray powder diffraction, an d 228 from Synchrotron x-ray powder diffraction. Other reasons for the rapidly growing impact of neutron diffraction include the favorable neutron-scattering cross sections for light elements, the sensitivity to magnetic moments, and the ability to penetrate special sample environments for in situ studies. These strengths are widely accepted and have been exploited for many years. Previous reviews have focused on these topics.

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