Beyond classical applications of powder diffraction.
This article provides a short tutorial review of how laboratory powder diffraction methods can be used to establish a variety of "non-traditional" pieces of information about solid state materials-information beyond simple phase identification or structure determination at a specific temperature. The examples show how unique insights into synthetic pathways, reaction mechanisms, reaction kinetics, polymorphism, phase transitions and physical properties can be obtained for a variety of different types of materials.
Department of Chemistry, University of Durham, Science Site, South Road, Durham, UK. john.evans@durham.ac.uk
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