Powder Crystallography

Determine 3D molecular structure with powder XRD

The ability to determine crystal structures directly from powder diffraction data promises to open up many new avenues of structural science. Many important materials cannot be prepared as single crystals of appropriate size and quality for conventional single crystal diffraction studies, nor indeed for the synchrotron-based microcrystal diffraction techniques. In such cases, structure determination from powder diffraction data may represent the only viable approach for obtaining an understanding of the structural properties of the material of interest.