scholarly journals Formation and growth mechanism for niobium oxide nanoparticles: Atomistic insight from in situ X-ray total scattering

Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Aalling-Frederiksen ◽  
Mikkel Juelsholt ◽  
Andy Sode Anker ◽  
Kirsten Marie Ørnsbjerg Jensen

Understanding the mechanisms for nanoparticle nucleation and growth is crucial for the development of tailormade nanomaterials. Here, we use X-ray total scattering and Pair Distribution Function analysis to follow the...

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (34) ◽  
pp. 18860-18867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew E. Potter ◽  
Mark E. Light ◽  
Daniel J. M. Irving ◽  
Alice E. Oakley ◽  
Stephanie Chapman ◽  
...  

Novel in situ synchrotron total scattering measurements probe the assembly of primary building units into templated hierarchically porous aluminophosphate catalysts, providing unique insights to understanding crystallisation kinetics.


2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (13) ◽  
pp. 8593-8606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kengran Yang ◽  
V. Ongun Özçelik ◽  
Nishant Garg ◽  
Kai Gong ◽  
Claire E. White

Drying-induced nanoscopic alterations to the local atomic structure of silicate-activated slag and the mitigated effects of nano-ZrO2 are elucidated using in situ X-ray pair distribution function analysis.


2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (33) ◽  
pp. 1950410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad S. Masadeh ◽  
Moneeb T. M. Shatnawi ◽  
Ghosoun Adawi ◽  
Yang Ren

The crystal structure of zinc metal deviates from the ideal hexagonal close packing structure by a significantly increased axial ratio (c/a). The local atomic structure of zinc metal is investigated using the total scattering atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis based on X-ray powder diffraction data collected at ambient conditions. The X-ray total scattering PDF analysis confirms that the crystal structure of zinc can be described in terms of wurtzite structure, but with an anomalously atomic displacement parameters [Formula: see text], indicating a significant displacement disorder along the [Formula: see text]-axis. For the long [Formula: see text]-range PDF refinements, the thermal motion of zinc shows a notable anisotropy as expressed by the ratio [Formula: see text]/[Formula: see text] of 2.5 at ambient conditions. This average distortion level along the [Formula: see text]-axis, was not reflected locally for the features below 5.0 Å as it fits the high [Formula: see text] region. Based on PDF refinements over different [Formula: see text]-ranges, we measure an interesting increase of the [Formula: see text] value with decreasing the [Formula: see text]-range of the refinement. This suggests that the local structure features in zinc metal differ from the average structure ones.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (16) ◽  
pp. 8597-8605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoine E. Morandeau ◽  
Claire E. White

The kinetics of reaction and the local atomic structure of carbonating C–S–H gel are characterised using high-energy synchrotron radiation.


Nanoscale ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (45) ◽  
pp. 21900-21908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Tan ◽  
Alston J. Misquitta ◽  
Andrei Sapelkin ◽  
Le Fang ◽  
Rory M. Wilson ◽  
...  

Four types of magic-size CdS clusters and three different CdS quantum dots have been studied using the technique of X-ray total scattering and pair distribution function analysis.


2007 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1489-1496 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. M. Michel ◽  
L. Ehm ◽  
G. Liu ◽  
W. Q. Han ◽  
S. M. Antao ◽  
...  

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