title: Total scattering investigation of materials for clean energy applications: the importance of the local structure.
abstract: In this Perspective article we give an account of the application of total scattering methods and pair distribution function (PDF) analysis to the investigation of materials for clean energy applications such as materials for solid oxide fuel cells and lithium batteries, in order to show the power of this technique in providing new insights into the structure-property correlation in this class of materials.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Chemistry, INSTM and IENI-CNR, University of Pavia, Viale Taramelli 10-16, I-27100, Pavia, Italy. Lorenzo.malavasi@unipv.it
authors.forename: Lorenzo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Malavasi