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Quantifying Amorphous Phases

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Uniting Electron Crystallography and Powder Diffraction

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Traditional quantitative phase analysis using the Rietveld method fails to take into account the occurrence of amorphous material and without careful attention on behalf of the operator its presence remains undetected. In this paper the methodology of several different approaches to the determination of amorphous content and an assessment of their performance is described. All methods discussed produce reasonable results; however the study highlights some of the strengths, deficiencies and applicability of each of the approaches.

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  1. Bruker AXS GmbH, Östliche Rheinbrückenstraße 49, 76187, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Arnt Kern

  2. CSIRO Process Science and Engineering, 312, Clayton South, 3169, VIC, Australia

    Ian C. Madsen & Nicola V. Y. Scarlett

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  1. , Institute of Physical Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University, Welderweg 11, Mainz, 55128, Germany

    Ute Kolb

  2. , School of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AP, United Kingdom

    Kenneth Shankland

  3. , Department of Materials Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Marcus Family Campus, Beer-Sheva, 84105, Israel

    Louisa Meshi

  4. Inst. Crystallography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii prospect 59, Moscow, 119333, Russia

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Kern, A., Madsen, I.C., Scarlett, N.V.Y. (2012). Quantifying Amorphous Phases. In: Kolb, U., Shankland, K., Meshi, L., Avilov, A., David, W. (eds) Uniting Electron Crystallography and Powder Diffraction. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5580-2_20

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